Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 14, 2025

The AJH Foundation and ActionAid UK have adopted this model and speak highly of its effect on organizational culture and productivity. It is a step in the right direction but requires building an organization-wide culture to match it. Exclusion: Staff have concerns about being left out of organizational decision-making.

Leadership

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Create a culture where your staff feels proud of their work. Prioritizing Workplace Culture and Inclusion A strong, supportive workplace culture isnt just a nice to have, its essential. Even small gestures like recognizing cultural holidays or hosting regular team check-ins can build trust and reinforce a sense of community.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 15, 2025

Without sufficient specificity on workflows and decision-making, co-led organizations can experience lower productivity, with staff experiencing confusion, frustration, and a lack of trust in their leaders. Making decisions can be political and slow. Such relationships require time and nurturing, and there are no shortcuts.

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Ubuntu as Art Nearly two years later, on Earth Day 2024, our Cultural Arts Circle excitedly announced 40 winners for the Ubuntu Climate Initiatives inaugural Climate Arts and Storytelling Showcase. We are living in a patriarchal system that prioritizes power, profit, and a hypercompetitive culture that overvalues individualism.

Culture

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2025

Send out mission and vision statements for review, as well as culture statements and core values. A smooth, stress-free event sets the stage for productive conversations and meaningful outcomes. Starting early gives you the time to: Create a comprehensive assessment survey to be taken by all participants.

Collaborations

Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As a nonprofit executive director and founder working in this space for nearly two decades, I have firsthand knowledge of the cultural biases and systemic racism that often limit the success of Black-led nonprofits, especially those in the South. As a result, I feel 2024 was one of my most productive years as a nonprofit leader.

Leadership

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This obsession stems from deep cultural, historical, and economic foundations that value individualism, meritocracy, and innovation. Weve cultivated a culture that prizes personal achievement, the honing of leadership traits, and the belief that leadership is the key driver of both organizational and societal success.

Leadership

The Charity CFO

JANUARY 8, 2025

As the leader of one of Minnesota’s most impactful environmental organizations, Hoffman shared valuable insights on strategic planning, measuring impact, and creating a healthy work culture. At MCEA, their mission to use law and science to protect Minnesota’s environment and the health of its people serves as a crucial touchstone.

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Artists knew that the funding infrastructure for the arts mirrored our larger broken financial system, where the ability to live is based on a narrow definition of productivity and paid labor. It’s no surprise that more than half of artists in New York earning below $25,000 annually. We know that people do not live single-issue lives.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

Clothing production contributes to rampant pollution, from microplastics clogging water systems to carbon emissions and toxic chemicals used in textile processing. Fashion schools largely concentrate on longstanding methods of design and production, often sidelining sustainability to elective courses or specialized programs.

Education

Bloomerang

JANUARY 10, 2025

A lot depends on your culture and who your donors are. Nor did we deliberately substitute the time we saved with another more productive strategy. That could be a good enough reason to forego the hassle of preparing the listing. Especially if it opens up that time for more high-yielding fundraising and donor retention activities.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 12, 2025

But internally, it’s often stifled by urgency culture, bureaucracy, and fear. My ancestors envisioned freedom in bondage, cultivated joy in scarcity, and built wholesome and eclectic cultures amid erasure. We see this in many cultural traditions: Indigenous communities use circles to restore after harm has occurred and build community.

Nonprofit Leadership

Top Nonprofits

JULY 24, 2025

This will ensure a more productive exchange of information and status updates and can lead to innovative solutions by gaining outside perspectives. Nonprofits that incorporate agility into their culture , strategies, and systems will be better equipped to remain resilient in the face of change. Encourage role flexibility.

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In a video posted by Human Rights Watch in 2021, villagers describe the displacement, loss of natural resources, and erosion of cultural connection that they faced after being moved to resettlements when the dam was constructed. They also had access to forests where they could collect timber and non-timber forest products such as mushrooms.

Environmental

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Another path leads to it being purchased by a “farm incubator” who will make it available to refugee farmers growing culturally meaningful crops and contributing to their economic mobility. One path leads to a conventional wholesale buyer who pays below the cost of production, since prices are forced down by cheap, subsidized imports.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Finding a therapist for herself is no small featthose who truly resonate with her experience dont accept her insurance, and those who do lack the cultural competence to see her beyond a checklist. Years of advocating for patients and battling stress and anxiety from not feeling valued or seen at her workplace has her feeling worn down.

Healthcare

Candid

JUNE 30, 2025

Creating a culture of humility , where we’re open to learning and feedback. Photo credit: SDI Productions via Getty Images The post Putting the ‘trust’ in trust-based philanthropy: One leader’s aspiration to shift power and deepen impact appeared first on Candid insights.

Philanthropy

Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Fine suggests three ways nonprofits can use smart AI to shift work cultures: Invest in chatbots, improve workflow, and focus on physical health. The authors explore what “putting humans first” looks like, starting with redefining “productivity.” How should nonprofits mitigate risks in adopting AI technology?

Ethics

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Community & Culture Working together lifts everyone up! Learn how culturally responsive leadership can help bring out the best in your nonprofits team. Developing and sustaining a motivated, productive, and highly engaged workforce means your employees must be measured on how they demonstrate the organizations values.

Nonprofit governance and management

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The main difference is that you’re leveraging your organization values and unique employee benefits to attract top talents and encourage them to work for you instead of promoting product values to encourage customers to buy it. This goes beyond hard skills, considering soft skills, personality traits, and cultural alignment as well.

Recruitment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 23, 2025

Indian and Mexican cultures converge as girls are invited to blend Kahlos magical realism with Indias traditional folk artforms like Madhubani painting and Kalamkari textile printing. Here, art is not the end product; its a deeply reflective process of building voice, confidence, and agency. A self-affirming unibrow meets a bindi.

Leadership

Get Fully Funded

JULY 17, 2025

These training materials can generally be sorted into three categories: Mission and organizational culture: Acquaint supporters with your organization by sharing your mission statement, an overview of your volunteer program’s values, and a facility tour. Cultivate a culture of appreciation.

Non-Profits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 2, 2025

How it helps: Humanizes your brand voice Aligns your messaging with real-world moments (think cultural events, holidays, trending topics) Builds emotional familiarity a key trust driver in social media engagement Best Practices: Use reaction GIFs that match your brand tone (funny, thoughtful, quirky, etc.)

Production

Candid

MAY 5, 2025

When supported with flexible funding and included in the early stages of product or policy design, community-based organizations contribute essential insights that can lead to more effective, inclusive systems. From service delivery to product co-design and regulatory input, their role is multifaceted.

Finance

Bloomerang

MARCH 31, 2025

For example, one consultant may primarily serve arts and culture organizations in a single state, while another may specialize in working with national advocacy organizations with budgets over $5 million. Just like the foundations that fund nonprofits, grant consultants often specialize in working with certain types of organizations.

Values

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These winners represent creative excellence in video production, design innovation and virtual event execution. Their work captivated audiences, elevated brand narratives and delivered results that advanced their organizations' or client's communications strategies.

Communication

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 12, 2025

Development organizations have implemented programming that promotes men and women sharing the responsibilities of income generation and caregiving to improve productivity and household well-being. This may be especially true for men who live in cultures where male caregiving is not widely embraced.

Agriculture

Candid

JUNE 26, 2025

The potential for AI to transform grantmaking While AI has enhanced personal productivity and streamlined workflows , few AI solutions reflect the real-world challenges of grantmaking, where success depends on relationships, equity, and trust.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Blue Avocado

JUNE 10, 2025

Paul Gloor from Grosse Ile Nature and Land Conservancy Thriving Virtual Teams, Diminished In-Person Connections I think we have established a strong virtual working culture that has allowed us to meaningfully engage staff around the world into a single dynamic team. This makes it easier for our younger board members to participate.

Recruitment

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

For us, that means focusing on the current volunteer experience and how to make it better, injecting autonomy and personal value into our culture, and solidifying our operations so they are easily accessible and efficient. Our mission is growth-oriented, but to achieve that growth, we must set the foundation to scale. It is the way we learn.

Volunteerism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The students devised and implemented a plan to market and sell their honey production. With guidance from a local beekeeping expert, they also built 12 beehives, and they began caring for bee colonies in their herb gardens. Amidst the most recent war raging in Lebanon, Aal Seha took on a new urgency.

Education

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

The split is also racially, financially, culturally, and gender divided, furthering the perception of “us versus them.” A well-thought-out selection process ensures that you bring on board members who are not only passionate about the mission, but also a good fit for the organization’s culture and dynamics.

Management

Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 17, 2025

While volunteers are invaluable, relying too much on them can lead to burnout, reduced productivity, and even event-day mishaps. By fostering a culture of clear communication and appreciation, your nonprofit can build a motivated, engaged team that is ready to bring your event vision to life.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Clairification

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Instead of, thats just semantics, it seems more productive to say, Im confident we have a semantics problem. ” So says Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void Culture Design Group, noting your words may or may not incorporate ‘signifiers’ that open the listener/reader to the possibilities they might encourage.

Fundraising

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. But the roots of housing profit-making are intertwined with complex social, cultural, and political dynamics.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2025

They may be aware of informal local support networks, upcoming economic developments, or cultural nuances that inform lending decisions. CDFIs contribute by financing first-time homebuyers, often through specialized products that require lower down payments or combine with counseling.

Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 22, 2025

It ends up being a product of long-term thinking, and I don’t think that has been really explored. First—building a collaborative culture. We need to understand how to make utterly productive meetings that people enjoy, instead of: “Oh, my god, another meeting. That doesn’t happen in the real world. And that takes training.

Leadership