The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Donors shouldn’t be afraid to fund protest actions like the one at the U.S. Open last week. They are effective — even if they're unpopular. By Margaret Klein Salamon Kena Betancur, AFP, Getty Images Environmental protesters delayed the match between USA’s Coco Gauff and Czech Republic’s Karolina Muchova during the U.S. Open tennis tournament women’s singles semi-finals.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
By Catherine Bracy & Martha Dark In March 2019, Daniel Motaung, a college graduate from South Africa, flew thousands of miles to Nairobi, Kenya. He believed he’d been recruited as an IT administrator for a company called Samasource. But when he arrived in Nairobi, he realized his job was entirely different. Instead, he would be a content moderator for Facebook.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Image credit: Ted Timmons on wikimedia commons In 2020, almost 100 Confederate monuments were removed in the United States. One year later, 73 additional monuments to the Confederacy were removed or renamed across the country. Many of these monuments, particularly in 2020, were displaced as a result of protests following the murder of George Floyd by a White police officer.
Tony Martignetti
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
Dennis Fois: Donor Retention The challenges are real and widespread: Aging donors; smaller gifts; and abysmal retention rates. Dennis Fois brings strategies and tactics to raise your consciousness and turn things around. Let’s talk about emotional connections, multithreading, and multichannel, just for starters. He’s CEO of Bloomerang. Listen to the podcast Get Nonprofit … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for September 11, 2023: Donor Retention → Dennis Fois: Donor Retention The ch
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
By Kay Dervishi A Sickle Cell patient receives treatment at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and stem Cell Research at University of California. Since 2008, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded $35 million to research scientists focused on the disease. Now several of them are bringing their gene therapy cure to clinical trial for FDA approval.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
By Tomohiro Hamakawa & Keita Yamamoto How social innovators can manage their organizations in a way that balances a linear, problem-fixing approach and a more exploratory, agile one.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unsplash.com X Corp, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a nonprofit dedicated to exposing and counteracting digital hate speech which has published research critical of the tech company’s handling of hate speech on its platform. Founded in 2018, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) seeks to “stop the spread of online hate and misinformation,” especially on large online platforms like X Corp, Meta, TikTok, and others, through original research.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Her unique brand of giving was wide-ranging, deeply personal — and often came as a surprise to the recipients. By Lisa Napoli Christiana Botic for The Chronicle Her unique brand of giving was wide-ranging, deeply personal — and often came as a surprise to the recipients.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
By Roger Vann For Black Americans, the right to vote has never come easy. After centuries of systemic legal exclusion, our ancestors marched and shed blood time and time again for the right to cast a ballot and secure a place in American democracy. Nearly six decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, this struggle continues, with a rising tide of authoritarianism that deploys voter suppression as one of its most insidious weapons.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 11, 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.” This conversation with Manuel Pastor, distinguished professor of sociology and American studies & ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and NPQ ’s Steve Dubb and Rithika Ramamurthy, explores themes regarding social movements and economics that Manuel Pastor writes about in Solidarity Economics: Why Mut
Clairification
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Getting in the spirit of acts of kindness It’s been a rough decade thus far, beginning with a pandemic out there killing people. And then the hurricanes, fires, floods and earthquakes killing people. Not to mention the genocides, autocracies, global and domestic terrorists killing people. The list, unfortunately, goes inexorably on. What can your nonprofit organization do to offer a remedy?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The National Housing Trust just received an infusion of funds to help tackle the housing crisis. By Jim Rendon Kelvin Martinez The National Housing Trust gives grants and makes loans for affordable housing and also owns 4,000 housing units. The National Housing Trust just received an infusion of funds to help tackle the housing crisis.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
By Ashka Naik India, or at least the ancient notion of it, was rooted in the philosophy of वसुधैव कुटुंबकम (the world is one family). India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 13, 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.” In 2016, activists in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, a historically diverse and predominantly Latinx community, were organizing against gentrification that was encroaching on their community.
Non Profit AF
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
[Image description: A grassy hill, linted with pine trees, standing before a mountain. This was taken by me on a trip to Mt. Rainier. I had altitude sickness and could barely breathe!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Wealthy nonprofits, especially universities, increasingly demonstrate the same behaviors that led Congress to regulate foundations more than 50 years ago. The law should be updated to include these organizations. By Craig Kennedy Sam Kalda for The Chronicle Wealthy nonprofits, especially universities, increasingly demonstrate the same behaviors that led Congress to regulate foundations more than 50 years ago.
Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Phone-a-thons have been a tried-and-true fundraising staple for decades. Gather volunteers, have them call a long list of donors, and have them make a solicitation. With fewer people picking up their phone for unknown callers, phone-a-thons appear to be waning in effectiveness. Have you ever considered turning the phone-a-thon on its head and holding a stewardship drive with a “thank-a-thon” instead?
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Image credit: BrianAJackson on istock.com Not long ago, most federal student loan borrowers received the following email message from the US Department of Education: As a result of legislation enacted by Congress, the student loan payment pause is ending. Student loan interest will resume Sept. 1, 2023. Payments will be due in October 2023 for most borrowers.
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Cultivating and sustaining public trust is vital to the health of any organization. Given the importance of public opinion and third-party ratings, we’ve compiled 10 tips to consider when establishing or maintaining your nonprofit organization’s profile.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
By Joan Garry Getty Images During my time as the executive director of a nonprofit, site visits from grant makers often felt like an odd combination of kindergarten show-and-tell and staging a home to sell it.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. As a small nonprofit organizer, you want to do more good work. But you’re already hustling as hard as possible to build support, raise money, and make a difference. How do you do more and grow your nonprofit without a fleet of minions?
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Jakub Pabis on unsplash.com When Murshid Buwembo’s wheelchair got a flat tire in a Home Depot parking lot, Buwembo had to miss three days of work while it was being repaired. And as he related to NPR , the repairs cost him $700. To afford that costly repair, he said: “I had to skip buying groceries.” For the users who rely on them, wheelchairs are essential devices.
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Marguerite Casey Foundation launched its “Public Dollars for Public Goods” initiative. The Foundation is investing more than $5M to support organizations that leverage community organizing to shift power by helping underserved communities access federal and local funding and control how those funds are spent.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Plus, Dan and Jennifer Gilbert have pledged $375 million for two new medical facilities, and MacKenzie Scott is giving $20 million for affordable housing in San Francisco. By Maria Di Mento Christopher Capozziello, The New York Times, Redux Yale University will use a $40 million gift to expand a life-sciences center that focuses on early-stage research and the development of new biomedical products and health technologies through the support of start-up businesses and industry partnerships.
Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The following is a transcript of the video above from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Tenant Organizing in Unexpected Places.” View the full webinar here. Josh Poe: I think there are two parts of this question: One, how do we organize? Then, how does our organizing build power? We really try to organize around self-interest as opposed to ideology.
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
When creating a successful digital program today, it’s important to have a realistic understanding of the digital landscape. There’s no sugarcoating it, it’s tough for nonprofits to break through the noise and create connections with new audiences. So, how can nonprofits capture that attention of potential donors?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The money will go toward increasing enrollment, graduation rates and employment rates for graduates. By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press NEW YORK The money will go to the HBCU Transformation Project, a coalition of 40 historically Black colleges and universities. The money will go toward increasing enrollment, graduation rates and employment rates for graduates.
Veritus Group
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Whether you're in a new role or just starting the donor qualification process, here's how to approach your introduction letters. The post Our Top Tips for Crafting Effective Introduction Letters appeared first on Veritus Group.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The following is a transcript of the video above from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Tenant Organizing in Unexpected Places.” View the full webinar here. Wes Pelletier: If someone’s getting evicted, it might be too late. Everyone on this call: even if you don’t rent, just get used to building community. Get used to talking to your neighbors, be weird and go ask for something that you would have to run out to the store for.
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
I often catch myself wondering what my organization's donors or volunteers might be confused by and what ideas they would bring to the table if they were in charge for a day. Here are some ways you can think about changing your organization's processes to improve donor experiences.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
By M.J. Prest Salesforce Salesforce is supporting work-force development to prepare students for success. Also, Press Forward will give $500 million to strengthen local news organizations, and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded its 2023 Humanitarian Prize to the One Acre Fund.
Get Fully Funded
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
“Where do I look to find grants for my nonprofit?” It’s a burning question so many nonprofits have, and to be honest, I can’t say that I blame them! Getting grant funds is REALLY exciting! For one, it’s usually a lot of money. Think about it: what could your nonprofit do right now with a $5,000 check?? (I bet a few different things just popped in your mind, didn’t they?
Blue Avocado
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
When nonprofit board members feel dissatisfied, they often resign. They're less likely to do that when there is communication about common objectives. There's less wasted time and resources when expectations are met. The post Board Horror Stories: How to Reduce Board Resignations appeared first on Blue Avocado.
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Employees of nonprofits do life-changing work from helping people at the hardest moments in their lives, to breaking down barriers in healthcare and education, to fighting for the environment. They give of themselves, but this doesn’t mean they should sacrifice financial well-being to do a job they love.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The platform, Clover, features more than 220 educational activities for students ages 5 to 18 on topics as diverse as farming and space exploration. By Glenn Gamboa, AP Business Writer NEW YORK Courtesy of The National 4-H Council, AP Jill Bramble, the National 4-H Council’s CEO (right), wants the new platform to be the digital equivalent of the in-person experience that 4-H has provided to young people for more than 120 years.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
How to Improve Digital Marketing Campaign using Data Visualization Not only the skills but decision-making ability is also required in creating digital marketing campaigns to hit the point where a business can find & connect with the target audience. Here, data visualization can play a key role. There are tons of data generated every day in this data-driven world, and companies like Google, Facebook , Twitter , and Amazon are leveraging it.
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