NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone. Did you enjoy this story?

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NonProfit Leadership Center

JANUARY 31, 2023

“I chose to participate in the Certificate in Leadership program because I wanted to evaluate how my leadership and communication styles could influence or hinder others from wanting to lead,” says Erica, a health policy analyst at Florida Policy Institute. Leadership is a continuous growth and learning experience.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Last year, our social impact startup hit a milestone that eludes 96 percent of female founders: we hit one million dollars in revenue. We know that for social entrepreneurs trying to solve global challenges, the system is rigged. Underneath every accomplishment lies a profoundly broken funding landscape for social innovation.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

Here is the latest submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series. Jackson Center’s social media accounts and oversees the production of the quarterly newsletter, press releases, promotional materials, and other communications. This series lets you describe your workday in your own words.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration. Our speakers Xavier Ramey is the CEO of Justice Informed, a social impact consulting firm based in Chicago, IL.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy. For instance, the Crux Alliance—a network of six policy expert NGOs—was founded on the premise that getting the details of climate policy right is essential to real-world carbon reductions.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There are, of course, lessons to be learned from the global pandemic.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A 2020 report from Stanford Law School and NYU School of Law researchers documented that nearly half of the 142 federal agencies surveyed had already experimented with AI applications, including to adjudicate disability benefits and communicate with the public. The future is now. Due this summer, it is now several months behind.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2023

This kind of deep, long-term investment was what The California Endowment (TCE) had in mind when it launched its Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative in 2010, with the intention of investing $1.75 billion in 14 Californian communities over a span of 10 years. Community grantees knew better.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

Take your own journey further through private reflection and public sharing, acknowledgement of failures without shame, and discussing openly how you are solving for challenges. As a leader, you both set an example through your own actions and by influencing organizational culture and policies.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Image credit: Ridofranz on istock.com A new US Department of Labor rule restores protections for misclassified workers and could help reduce the precarious status of freelance journalists, according to Samantha Sanders of the Economic Policy Institute. These protections are sorely needed in an industry buffeted by layoffs.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Having worked in the social sector for a little over a decade, I have firsthand experience with the art and science of getting social impact programs off the ground. It is meant to supplement, rather than replace, the existing social safety net and job sector and can be a critical tool for improving racial and gender equity.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 3, 2010

During last week’s webinar on Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit , we used the Policy Tool for Social Media to create a rough draft of a policy. What resulted is a crowd-sourced rough draft of a nonprofit social media policy (link to a Word doc for you to download).

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 17, 2015

For nonprofit public relations pros, Dylan’s statement carries a lot of meaning. Gone are the days when we could communicate at our potential audiences. Last month on this blog, I challenged nonprofit communicators to stop approaching media relations like they did in 2007.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Julia Coffman As an advocacy strategy consultant and evaluator for the last two decades, I’ve supported many foundations in thinking about what it takes to win a particular policy or system change. Changing the way policies and systems are structured, run, and resourced can obviously be transformational.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s not just digital news nonprofits that benefit from their giving; the Waltons also give to legacy newspapers, websites, magazines, radio stations, and trade journals covering such subjects as agriculture, water policy, fisheries, conservation, and climate. There’s more.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

Welcome to the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators! Hazelnut coffee in hand, I check all my email and social media accounts for any breaking news or issues that need my immediate attention. This series lets you describe your workday in your own words. Does anyone need immediate help?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

This is not a theory but a fact, affirmed by leading experts like the Edelman Trust Barometer , Gallup , and General Social Survey by NORC at the University of Chicago. It erodes a high-functioning pluralistic democracy , compromises public health, and makes it impossible to solve collective problems like climate change.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

There are communities like hers all over America. Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Clearing this fog is crucial for companies to confidently take decisive steps and communicate their impact. Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Community-based organizations and local governments are starting to recognize where such individuals may fall through the cracks and are creating policies and networks for more inclusive disaster response and recovery. At the same time, these policies siphoned resources away from their communities.

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Getting Attention

MARCH 16, 2015

Communications Assistant (PT) Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Communications Director Center on Policy Initiatives (San Diego, CA). Communications Director America Achieves (Washington, D.C.). Communications and Events Coordinator Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (San Francisco, CA). Louis, MO).

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

APRIL 10, 2024

Leverage your expertise and connections to guide the Tennessee Nonprofit Network's strategy and make a real difference in your community. As Tennessee's first statewide nonprofit association, Tennessee Nonprofit Network provides essential resources, research, training, and public policy support to empower nonprofits of all sizes.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

to collaborate, learn, shape and advance the nonprofit sector for the good of the communities we serve.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Human and social services – 8%. Community development – 3%. Research and public policy – 1%. Public media and communications – 0%. 16) GivingTuesday donors say the following communication tools are the most likely to inspire them to give: Email – 35%. LGBTQIA+ – 1%.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

hour, looking at some of the worst things imaginable to decide whether they violated Facebook’s content policies. Content moderators like Daniel, are social media’s essential workers. Simply put—there is no social media without content moderation. He would spend nine hours a day, for a wage of roughly $1.50/hour,

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

One, by Kevin Musgrave , a Southeast Missouri State University communications professor cited above, focuses on attempts to fuse economic and religious thought. It’s about shrinking the state—or its social programs, at least rhetorically. These policies have real-world effects. The story is multi-faceted.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Yet, all individuals in social impact face a similar challenge, whether addressing things like housing, health care, or poverty. By Lian Zeitz , John Jamir Benzon R.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. As the world emerges from this period of death, economic displacement, and social reordering, it will take years to fully understand how the pandemic impacted households, communities, and countries.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If environmental outcomes can become assets, why can’t social outcomes? Social impact, totaling $72.05 trillion in terms of government social spend, philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management could be considered the world’s largest financial market today.

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 22, 2024

You can do this by promoting open communication and transparency throughout your nonprofit. In addition to communication, you can help reduce burnout by prioritizing employee wellness and mental health. Some employees may prefer a public acknowledgment while others are more comfortable being thanked in private.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” Does the community have a strong need for this nonprofit? Starting a Nonprofit: Basic FAQs What is a nonprofit? In the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Is it social media shares? Adopting guerilla marketing tactics has become an effective way to reach different audience demographics, generate social media buzz, and raise your nonprofit brand profile. Importantly, they’ll often share their progress on social media. Is it people buying tickets?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

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