Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 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.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Vienna and the Birth of Social Housing The staff and residents of Karl Marx-Hof , the famous public housing complex in Vienna, have seen an uptick in international visitors. Not so long ago, social housing was rarely discussed in the United States. But today there are over a dozen social housing campaigns across the country.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 27, 2021

Once you and your team have worked together to fine-tune your internal nonprofit strategic communication initiatives by constructing a mission statement, vision statement, and identifying your core values, you can now start to strategize your external nonprofit communication efforts. Your Who : Your Audience.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nonprofits often receive donations or grants designated for a specific purpose–like a donation to a specific program or grant you have to spend within a calendar year. And the issue of restricted funds presents unique bookkeeping and accounting challenges for a nonprofit that a for-profit company doesn’t face.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Your nonprofit is growing. What You Need to Know About Your First Capital Campaign A capital campaign is a focused, intense effort to raise significant dollars for a specific purpose in a short period of time — usually for construction, purchase, expansion, or renovation of a facility. It’s a big deal! Increased awareness.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

They create a suite of environmental problems: from high carbon emissions as trees and soils burn; to public health emergencies when wildfires hit towns and smoke affects distant cities; to water contamination compounding regional drought. Modern land management practices such as fire suppression and logging make forests likelier to burn.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Combatting this elite capture, he argues, requires a constructive politics that draws on identity politics’ radical foundation: a practice of solidarity that links people of different identities and their struggles, building power to win a better world for all. A concrete example of constructive politics is forming a union.

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

OCTOBER 5, 2022

However, there are some fundamental responsibilities that are shared by all nonprofit boards. Simone Joyaux, ACFRE is a nonprofit fund development and governance guru. The board is a group of people working together to govern the nonprofit and to ensure the effectiveness of the organization. The "board" is a collective.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Bridges to Prosperity (B2P), a nonprofit where two of the authors of this article work, implements trail bridges in remote, rural communities to serve pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, and animal traffic utilizing standardized bridge designs, recycled cable, and local materials. million people. We know these solutions have a great impact.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

Showing Up In the United States, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 sparked a national moment of reckoning with institutional racism, income inequality, and related failures inherent in US social and economic systems.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. The regulatory changes for construction, warehouse, and meat packing workers are also significant.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The origin of the tenant organizing movement in San Francisco’s Chinatown can, in fact, be traced back to one of these organizations, the Ping Yuen Residents Improvement Association (PYRIA) , which was founded in 1967 to improve conditions in Chinatown’s public housing complexes. Empowered grassroots leadership made that project possible.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2024

Under both liberal and conservative administrations, the US government has expanded the influence of the elite and shrunk the powers of the public; fortified the security state and enfeebled the welfare system; proselytized radical bipartisanship and criminalized radical dissent.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

As the Center for Responsive Politics —the nonprofit that operates the Open Secrets database— details , two political action committees played a key role. However, people may contribute to 501c4 nonprofits anonymously. Media accounts focused on rules concessions, and those were important. Is Campaign Finance Repair Possible?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The Jean Griswold Foundation is a public, non-profit foundation whose primary goal is to support caregivers and better their lives. The Daniels Fund focuses on supporting highly effective and ethical nonprofit organizations that achieve significant results in the community. Areas served: Worldwide. Jean Griswold Foundation.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses. And they have compensated for the shortcomings of the public services and systems that fail to support people returning from prison. On any given day, thousands of women leave homes across America and enter prison voluntarily.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Emphasize the positive publicity that corporate sponsors and individual donors can receive from donating raffle prizes to your event. Your nonprofit can publicly thank these donors using your social media, email, blog posts, and other event marketing materials. Stay organized with Bloomerang’s online giving and event management tools.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

These components can be employed through a nonprofit organization or city government. For example, at a nonprofit, key decision makers might include the organization’s board members and staff. Below, I highlight ten components of a successful launch of a guaranteed income pilot program, based on my experience in Newark, New Jersey.

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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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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

There are 170 facilities that report toxic chemicals, and 149 report greenhouse gas emissions with 29 facilities proposed or under construction—all in majority Black communities,” Dr. Wright said. Additionally, 80 percent of Black people living in the Corridor live within three miles of multiple polluting facilities.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

You likely understand the general benefits of planning, but why is creating a fundraising plan so important for your nonprofit? Although every nonprofit is unique, there are several factors that every fundraising strategy should include to be successful. With that, let’s get started. Why you should create a fundraising strategy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

At the same time, many community development nonprofits face challenges in securing the capital needed to carry out their core missions and, importantly, to test new ideas and strategies. There is, however, a way for nonprofits to gain greater access to “flexible” capital and for foundations to generate a financial return.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

Learn more about how the 2023 legislative session impacts Nonprofits and the Tennesseans they support The first session of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned on Friday, April 21st. 140 million for one full-time, armed School Resource Officer for every public school. $40 The legislature passed a $56.2

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

One of the best things that happened,” Bank told us, “is that our Board Liaison enhanced constructive partnership. The Liaison manages every piece of board relationships, setting a cadence of meetings, ensuring committees are populated, and that AJWS’s governance complies with bylaws. Here, the issue becomes much less clear.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our research is oriented toward shifting the frontier in terms of big, visionary policy—like the Green New Deal for Public Schools. It really speaks to the benefit of investing in our economy to make it public, accessible, and decommodified. SD: The austerity regimes of recent decades brought massive public disinvestment.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

Learn more about how the 2023 legislative session impacts Nonprofits and the Tennesseans they support The first session of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned on Friday, April 21st. 140 million for one full-time, armed School Resource Officer for every public school. $40 The legislature passed a $56.2

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 23, 2024

Building Successful Corporate Partnerships for Social Impact Because of the linked nature of the world we live in today, the partnership between for-profit businesses and charitable groups has become an essential component in the process of bringing about constructive social change. ” – Imran Khan, Director at Home Detail 3.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector. Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . Brown Rudnick Center for Public Interest. Webb Family Foundation.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

How can nonprofits help immigrants build community wealth? Nonprofit and public sector programs to promote savings are common. In Indiana , for example, participating nonprofits in the state-funded network will match eligible low-income individuals’ savings at the rate of $3 per dollar saved, up to a maximum of $4,500.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. This reality became starkly evident in the journey of the Center for Habitat Reconstruction (CRH) seeking supplemental funding to keep a large public contract it had won. Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And that’s important, and the list is long for a reason, because it is a call-in to members of the community that had not been in the leadership roles and the decision making in the public leadership as much. It’s critical to have that leadership and opportunity component center folks that have been historically excluded,” explains Ruiz.

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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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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

As Eliya Imtiaz, former managing editor of the “Michigan in Color” section of the Michigan Daily , put it last year, “Similar to most ideals in this country, the current notion of DEI heightens the façade that everything occurs on an individual level.”

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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] It [proposes] a new mechanism of decision making in charitable giving through an important psychological construct: similarity.”[23] S., & Yang, S.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Picture this: your nonprofit is gearing up to run a capital campaign to construct a new building. This way, you’ll ensure that volunteers’ solicitations align with your nonprofit’s values and their conversations maintain best practices.

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