Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ” Fall in love with the possibilities of AI. Dive in and learn by doing! “A person's a person, no matter how small.” 🛣 4.

Marketing 147

Marketing Marketing Technology Non-Profits 147

Selfish Giving

JANUARY 31, 2024

One of the things I really like about AI tools such as ChatGPT is its emphasis on answers over results. A benefit of ChatGPT is I can ask it to limit its search for answers to the content published on Selfish Giving. We could both learn a few things about crafting the right prompt for ChatGPT! Two words: Brands.

Philanthropy 147

Philanthropy Health Nonprofits Food 147

Nonprofit Fixer

MAY 6, 2024

When someone is chosen to lead a for-profit or nonprofit organization, one of the critical factors is their judgment. Compared to small business owners or corporate CEOs, nonprofits have a bias toward collaborative and inclusive decision-making and authentic stakeholder engagement. It is vital to developing critical thinking skills.

Psychology 69

Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Leadership 69

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Kicking off the event were two prominent movement actors— Kali Akuno , cofounder of Jackson, Mississippi-based Cooperation Jackson ; and Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union , the first union to ever win an election at a US-based Amazon facility. Smalls, by contrast, is very new to organizing. Amherst, MA: March 24, 2023.

Education 134

Education Education Governance Food 134

Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 22, 2024

One quick note: As many of us know, sometimes quotes are misattributed. I would love to hear from you! Motivational Quotes for Nonprofit Leaders These quotes are especially good if you’re having one of those tough days. We deal with cynicism and rejection- especially when what we’re working on is important.

Nonprofit Leadership 111

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Fundraising Fundraising 111

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. Why You Need a Good Story Strong, effective storytelling for nonprofits can accomplish lots of good things: Connects your audience to those you serve.

Children 139

Children Construction Nonprofits Non-Profits 139

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

1 During this time, nonprofit organizations like Inclusive Action for the City, which I cofounded in 2008, had to do our own soul-searching. What levers could we pull to combat gentrification, prevent displacement, and protect impacted community members and small businesses?

Culture 98

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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? According to VanderMeer, the book was oddly prescient: “I didn’t realize how much it has so many of the themes and things that I’ve dealt with since.”

Environmental 135

Environmental Education Education Law 135

NonProfit Leadership Center

JUNE 26, 2023

Today, as I prepare to retire from full-time work, I can wholeheartedly say that dreadful organic chemistry class was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I’d like to share one lesson for each decade of my leadership journey with you. It was the moment my focus shifted from medicine to mission. Celebrate differences.

Nonprofit Leadership 130

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Health Nonprofits 130

Bloomerang

JANUARY 4, 2023

In each post, one donor will share what inspired them to make their donation and why they donated to that specific cause. In this post, we talk to C about why she contributes to her friends’ peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns for To Write Love on Her Arms. The Nonprofit : To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA).

Healthcare 78

Healthcare Fundraising Fundraising Health 78

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We have a relatively small asset size, just under $20 million. We’ve deployed over $50 million in small-dollar loans of less than $25,000 each across the Bay Area. On top of that, we administer grants and couple all of this with technical assistance. Our focus is [on] startup and early stage. You are building out.

Nonprofit Management 104

Nonprofit Management Management Sociology Collaborations 104

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Many founders do.) And unless you’re independently wealthy with an endless revenue stream, you can’t self-fund forever (nor should you – more on that in a minute). The bottom line: you need a fundraising plan built on the right fundraising plan template — one that outlines goals, actions, and the specific results you want.

Fundraising 111

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Fundraising burnout is real and it’s killing too many small nonprofits. And what you’ll find at the core is “do it all” syndrome. It’s too familiar for most leaders of small organizations. But what if you’re the ONLY person on the team and there’s really no one else to help? Maybe you’re experiencing it now.

Fundraising 119

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits Medical 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

What do these crises have in common? They all stem from our current economic and political order, which is built on insecurity. But embracing existential insecurity and facing it head on is a key to building solidarity, to reforming our social and political conditions. Often, we don’t want to face our mortality or vulnerability.

Manufacturing 141

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

But the ones that remain may become higher quality and higher paying. AI also has the potential to lower the barriers to entry to many jobs, including technical ones. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. If we choose to use them. AI and the Future of Work: What Stays and What Goes?

Curriculum and Teaching 101

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Civil Society Technology 101

Selfish Giving

MARCH 2, 2022

"What's the best way for a nonprofit to report on partnership impact?" ???? How do you handle conversations with companies who want to work with you on a campaign they are creating, but do not want to provide a financial donation as part of their partnership?" Now double down on it. I'd love to hear about it.

Volunteerism 130

Volunteerism Volunteerism Non-Profits Marketing 130

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Raising money for your small nonprofit is stressful during the holidays, and practicing personal gratitude can pull you through. When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or with gratitude.” — G.K. Just write down three things you are grateful for. Do you have running water?

Fundraising 119

Fundraising Fundraising Homelessness Culture 119

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Without leadership, a small nonprofit may never reach its full potential. At a minimum, a team with a poor leader is unproductive like this one: With the right leadership, a nonprofit can grow quickly, fulfilling its mission and meeting a community need or eliminating a problem. In a small nonprofit, the leader wears many hats.

Nonprofit Leadership 119

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

That movement had a particular focus on the South. So, I grew up with this kind of focus and emphasis on concentrating on activism in the South. How do we do development? How do we take care of our economic needs in non-exploitative ways? That was kind of always the function. Where is the employment?

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 132

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A tale of two volunteer programs Have you ever showed up early in the morning to volunteer on a cold Saturday morning having skipped coffee or breakfast, only to be asked to wait awkwardly with other strangers making small talk? Everyone just grabs a bag and starts to stuff things in it, wondering if this is the right way to do it.

Leadership 95

Leadership Management Communication 95

Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 13, 2023

Or do most people actually face down imposter syndrome at some point in their careers? Or do most people actually face down imposter syndrome at some point in their careers? Search results from Google Trends on “Imposter Syndrome”. And people may be asked to lead organizations simply because there is no one else to do the job.

Nonprofit Leadership 98

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 19, 2023

The profession and practice of fundraising stretches across thousands of American nonprofits, from small one-person “shops” of development officers to large teams with dozens of fundraisers. There are fundraisers in large institutions like universities and hospitals, and also at small organizations.

Fundraising 94

Fundraising Fundraising Culture Agriculture 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 1, 2023

to “call attention to the harm of mass incarceration on generations of Black women, families, and communities,” according to a press release by the California nonprofit Essie Justice Group, which organized the rally. The Essie Justice Group has bailed out over a dozen California women at the cost of a whopping $1.9

Children 74

Children Food Values Leadership 74

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Two things this week! In addition to Brittany Hill , CEO of Accelerist , leading the webinar, Ashley Lavore , Corporate Partnerships Manager at Ronald McDonald House Charities , will be on the line to dive into how you can adopt 2023 CSR trends and level up your purpose driven work. Never seen that one! So I gave, of course!"

Entrepreneurship 130

Entrepreneurship Children Ethics Values 130

Candid

MAY 24, 2023

It enabled him to tap into his imagination, helping to answer the question: What do challenging times make possible? He did what donors love. They love knowing that they are investing in a growing organization that is committed to proactively prioritizing their leaders and team members’ own professional development.

Leadership 105

Leadership Technology Construction Nonprofit Leadership 105

Candid

MAY 24, 2023

It enabled him to tap into his imagination, helping to answer the question: What do challenging times make possible? He did what donors love. They love knowing that they are investing in a growing organization that is committed to proactively prioritizing their leaders and team members’ own professional development.

Leadership 105

Leadership Technology Construction Nonprofit Leadership 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

Anasa Troutman: The thing that is so inspiring to me in Memphis is the sense of innovation and creativity: W.C. AT: Historic Clayborn Temple is a lot of things, but it is best known for being the headquarters of the sanitation workers’ strike of 1968. There were little things. And the dangerous things. Why is that?

Governance 109

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 109

Bloomerang

AUGUST 25, 2023

Assign someone to connect with them on a scheduled basis, just to show you care about them for more than their money. If you’re a small organization you can do this for each donor individually. Thank them for the purposeful thing they’ve done. Develop a donor love and loyalty plan. I strive for every other month.

Energy 67

Energy Philanthropy Nonprofits Activism 67

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

This massive change must have been difficult for many Nonprofits, NGOs, and Social Enterprises that rely on human-to-human activity and were no longer able to do so. When one door closes, another one opens. What is clear is that many Nonprofits have been losing out on the power of Digital Marketing.

Marketing 145

Marketing Marketing Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 145

MNA Association

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Do any of these scenarios sound familiar to you: Your organization collects basic program use data, and has for years. The team plays around with changing questions and methods, hoping they’ll get it ‘right’ one of these days. You’re small and lack staff with time and data experience. Start with alignment. Take a deep breath.

Race and Ethnicity 98

Race and Ethnicity Health Associations Leadership 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2024

I knew, but I did not know, that there was so much pain happening as people are trying to do their work and…for many of them, trying to do work on behalf of our people, on behalf of Black people.” So many people—women, Black women, especially, saying things like, “This book…it’s like you’ve written my life.”

Health 89

Health Leadership Universities Philanthropy 89

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

In so doing, they draw on histories and energies that have grown and percolated from past and present efforts toward sustainable, people-based planning. Smith intones that: Land trusts are an effective buffer because they give the community control; but that’s a harder thing to fund….So That’s our strength.”

Food 109

Food Medical Community Development Finance 109

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What if there was one thing you can do right now to ensure your fundraising success and boost year-end gifts? That’s more good news for you, the one standing out like a rainbow unicorn in a sea of beige, bland messaging. Don’t just reflect on their impact. Reflect on who they are—kind, generous, and compassionate.

Food 101

Food Leadership Fundraising Fundraising 101

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

And I’d love to go into that. And this was just a way to honor the folks that are doing the work, and to give ourselves the space and time to think about the work and the luxury of being able to reflect on what success looks like. It reminded me of a few things. Cyndi Suarez: I’m so glad to have the two of you together.

Leadership 100

Leadership Culture Philanthropy Values 100

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But look: even if your open rate is only 25%, you are connecting with one quarter of your email list, and that’s significant. When you post on social media, you don’t know how many people actually see your content. And when you post on your website, well, most of your donors aren’t regularly visiting your website.

Fundraising 126

Fundraising Fundraising Communication Marketing 126

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 13, 2023

How do you find the right fit for your organization? How do you know that they’re qualified? Below is more information about Olliette Murry-Drobot, one of our key consultants. Strategic Planning with a focus on building alignment across the organization. We’re Launching our new Series of Consultant Profiles!

Nonprofit governance and management 90

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Community Development Organizational Change 90

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Supercharge your board fundraising Board fundraising is one of the thorniest challenges in nonprofit leadership. It’s All About Mindset I love fundraising. Oh, this old thing? I got it on sale.” Why don’t people just say “thank you” when complimented on their possessions? But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit governance and management Governance 98