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Collaborations Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management 
NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 6, 2024
That’s about how many nonprofits have no members of color on their boards (BoardSource). Yet, diverse boards are essential to strengthen nonprofits and communities. So, what can be done to solve for such a significant gap between what is and what should be in the nonprofit sector?
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
OCTOBER 24, 2012
As I’ve been writing my new book on content marketing for nonprofits, I’ve tried to keep in mind the different stages that nonprofits go through as their communications and marketing programs mature. When asked to identify their target audience, they’ll usually respond with “the general public” or “everyone.”
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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?
Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving
NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 7, 2023
Tina James Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Florida Blue Tina James, the senior manager of corporate social responsibility at Florida Blue, is one of 20 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 23, 2025
Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 6, 2025
One major strategy to counter this fear lies in massive collaboration, a coming together of individuals, groups, and organizations at unprecedented scale to exert major influence on political and social events. Ready-made platforms for collaboration and broad connectivity mean that staggeringly fast mobilization is possible.
Anedot
APRIL 8, 2025
The organization fosters a strong, interconnected community through collaboration, advocacy, and direct aid. Emergency Assistance & Case Management: Financial and resource support for crises. Public Health & Emergency Preparedness: Addressing community health and safety. Deepen partner collaborations.
NonProfit Hub
JULY 30, 2020
But one of the most prevalent has been staying motivated at work. We’re going to have to teach ourselves and our teams how to stay productive and motivated , even when we can’t be there face-to-face. . I had the opportunity to talk to Wendy Van DeLaCastro, the president of the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln, Nebraska.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
MAY 27, 2024
As a dedicated nonprofit professional, you understand the critical role of continuous learning in the field. The nonprofit sector is dynamic, shaped by technological advancements, ever-evolving trends, and shifts in marketing and public relations strategies. This is where nonprofit professional development comes in.
NonProfit Hub
APRIL 22, 2025
When reading feedback about your onboarding practices, focus on these areas: Clear Expectations: Volunteers should have a detailed overview of their roles, responsibilities, and any objectives associated with their participation. They should also understand your nonprofits mission and the campaigns purpose. 10 per hour).
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 7, 2024
Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Thirty people attended, including managers and members of an academic gender committee we were on. Innovation thus becomes a powerful tool driven by the intellectual participation of women from diverse contexts.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Manifesting Love by **DALL-E 3/ **openai.com/dalle Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 13 This secrecy prevents public oversight, leaving communities vulnerable to unchecked biases that reinforce systemic inequities.
Candid
APRIL 24, 2024
Imagine a world in which philanthropy professionals are focused on improving their practices to transform philanthropy through centering communities, lightening the burden on nonprofit organizations, and holding themselves accountable to their values.
The NonProfit Times
MAY 6, 2024
By Olga Moshinsky Woltman “The growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.” – Carol Dweck It is a truth universally acknowledged that employees who are motivated to continuously learn and grow will be the ones to take on new challenges, innovate, and problem-solve.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 22, 2023
By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
By Greg Fine – a marketing consultant that works to elevate nonprofit marketing impact, revitalize giving campaigns, and bring energy and awareness to nonprofit brands and their mission. Artificial intelligence is simplifying the nonprofit slog work that ties up enormous banks of time and resources. Please cite sources.”
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 5, 2023
The complex is modest, but it houses an estimated 27 primarily immigrant-led small businesses and nonprofits. A nonprofit, the East Portland Community Investment Trust , serves as the owner and lead manager and developer of the property, and for a monthly subscription fee of $10 to $100, nearby residents can become owners themselves.
Nonprofit Fixer
AUGUST 15, 2023
After 30 years in nonprofit leadership, I’ve come to believe that there is one key skill that can boost your personal and professional success. Even though we don’t talk about it much in the nonprofit sector, fundraisers also require an entrepreneurial mindset. This requires prioritization, management, and dependability.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 5, 2024
Over the past 30 years, it has made substantial improvements in the living conditions and social status of people with disabilities due to rapid economic growth, administrative and legislative actions, and the dedicated efforts of nonprofit organizations that champion the disability community.
The Agitator
OCTOBER 5, 2010
If you or your nonprofit are devotees of Facebook and Twitter, his article is sure to fire you up! Social networks are effective at increasing participation —by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires. In fact, it’s the kind of commitment that will bring only social acknowledgment and praise.&#
Bloomerang
MAY 21, 2021
But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides our webinars, Bloomerang is a provider of donor management software. You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. I do run the Cal State East Bay Nonprofit Management Certificate Program.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 27, 2023
In contrast, a 2017 report found that only 5 percent of nonprofits were using artificial intelligence, and only 28 percent of nonprofits were using data for predictive or prescriptive purposes. The public sector isn’t much different. In the private sector, market forces drive investment in data to stay competitive.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 20, 2023
The reasons range from inertia (“we’ve always done it this way”) to questionable motivations (perhaps that employee wellness program isn't actually designed with employee wellness as its primary goal). We publicize our salaries in job listings, of course. Often, culture is simply neglected.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” …I advise everybody, be a little careful…best stay woke, keep their eyes open. 7 But it’s not just California where workers are making gains.
Get Fully Funded
MAY 9, 2024
For the average nonprofit, roughly 80% of all revenue comes from only 20% of its donors—and most of these earnings are major gifts. While your nonprofit likely has an individual or team dedicated solely to moves management and major giving, your marketing efforts can also play a role. Let’s get started!
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Nonprofit Fixer
JULY 23, 2020
Thousands of nonprofits have this challenge every year. This is why organizations need to guide and educate donors and foundations in evaluating nonprofits. Why do we set up our nonprofit sector like this???) By helping funders be more flexible, you are doing the whole nonprofit field a favor. This is bull!
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
JUNE 19, 2023
While traditional education often emphasized memorizing facts and knowledge retention, there is now a greater emphasis on critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity. This shift towards personalized learning fosters student engagement and motivation, resulting in deeper understanding and improved academic outcomes.
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Bloomerang
JUNE 11, 2021
By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. I have been in the nonprofit space for about 15 years now and … There we go. There’s my bio.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
AUGUST 27, 2023
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) are just two of the many areas that Microsoft Dynamics excels in. This flexible platform equips firms with a single method of handling a wide range of tasks, from accounting and supply chain management to marketing and customer care.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 6, 2025
Forged amid the suffering, deaths, and neglect that prevailed in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, this peer-led group is working to develop a model of care for nursing home residents, older adults, and people with disabilities that is guided by core principles of dignity, inclusivity, and collaboration.
Bloomerang
APRIL 7, 2025
The best time for nonprofits to stop preparing for this historic wealth transfer is yesterday; the second-best time is now. The stark reality is that too many nonprofits dont place enough emphasis on planned giving in general because they cant see the immediate returns. Board and management must lead by example: This is crucial!
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 18, 2024
Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 6, 2023
While many consider this rise in loneliness to be largely a social problem, communities around the world are applying innovative public health approaches to connecting people not only to each other but to health professionals and systems that can provide much-needed support. for every £1 invested.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 4, 2023
Women of color are significantly underrepresented in corporate leadership roles and face systemic obstacles in the nonprofit sector where, even with advanced education and experience, they are less likely to hold leadership positions than white men, white women, or men of color. Acknowledge the deep vulnerabilities within organizations.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 19, 2023
“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Image: “In Communication with the Sun” by Renée Laprise Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” For some other activists, personal experiences have been a powerful fount of education and motivation.
iMarketSmart
JULY 17, 2023
Givers benefit from their enhanced public reputation. Givers get no benefit from their public reputation. One experiment used a public radio station pledge drive.[12] Adding this phrase, “Did you know that other participants gave £5 and they said that participants such as yourself should give £5?”[27]
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 10, 2023
The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. We are clear that the maternal and infant health crises in this country are not only problems of disparate outcomes but also of inequitable options.
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Anedot
JUNE 16, 2025
Located in beautiful Novato/Marin County/CA, our workplace culture is driven by our five values: teamwork and collaboration, equity, excellence, integrity, and learning and continuous improvement. Hybrid schedule possible in accordance with NMCS policy and manager approval. Complete risk assessments with each youth.
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Anedot
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Located in beautiful Novato/Marin County/CA, our workplace culture is driven by our five values: teamwork and collaboration, equity, excellence, integrity, and learning and continuous improvement. Hybrid schedule possible in accordance with NMCS policy and manager approval.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 17, 2025
Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 7 The lack of robust data systems to track and manage the allocation and utilization of funds across healthcare centers led to inefficiencies and poor accountability.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Increase the use of Black asset managers and Black-owned investment firms. asks Dorian Burton, managing partner of the Southern Reconstruction Fund. Although managing endowments is a vital lever for philanthropy to engage, it’s a subject we plan to explore in more depth in follow-up writing beyond this article. Pick any gap.
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Fundraising Leadership
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
So as Take The Lead kicks off its 10th anniversary year, exactly 10 years after its first big public launch event at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium, we’re asking you, “How are we doing?” Thank you for your support and participation in our work for intersectional gender parity in leadership. So how are we doing?
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iMarketSmart
JULY 10, 2023
The letters referenced family upbringing as the source motivating generosity. This worked even when participants were randomly assigned and anonymous. Personality and altruism in the dictator game: Relationship to giving to kin, collaborators, competitors, and neutrals. Global Economics and Management Review, 19 (1-2), 3-15.
Anedot
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
To meet the needs of this resilient community, Openhouse has created a suite of services, programs, and trainings, including affordable housing, educational and enrichment programs, a training platform for providers, and navigation and case management, to name a few.
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