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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position.

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For the Love of Humankind: End of Year Fundraising for Community impact

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Whether we are working in community development, food insecurity, or racial justice, our fundraising must be grounded in our organization’s mission as we work to center the community we seek to serve and develop measurable impact and progress. . work at Capella University. Louis City, Missouri.

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Philanthropy Must Move from Charity to Solidarity

NonProfit Quarterly

These movements’ leaders—usually grassroots volunteers who I view, too, as philanthropists—have demonstrated solidarity in their non-monetary philanthropy. Later, we received free higher education at California’s public universities. We are stronger together, in solidarity, as part of a unified front.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Indeed, many movement organizations subscribe to the creed that “‘capitalism is incompatible with actual democracy’ since it prioritizes the ‘private interests of capitalists,’ meaning ‘under capitalism there can be no production of social wealth without the profits of privately owned enterprises.’” As described by Amna A.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

If racism has left Black Americans with less capital than White Americans, then the solution is to help Black Americans eventually own businesses as large and profitable as those of White Americans.” Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021; original work published 1983). Megan Ming Francis and Michael C.

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Social Media: You're Probably Doing It Wrong

Care2

For over a decade Allyson has helped non-profit organizations and political campaigns create dynamic and award-winning websites and online marketing and recruitment campaigns. and serves as the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2''s top-ranked nonprofit communications blog, Frogloop.