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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Around 30% of nonprofits cease to exist within 10 years of their founding.

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. EHRP is part of the dystopian social safety net.

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Your New Nonprofit Marketing Job: Friday Futures

Getting Attention

Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. Communications and Technology Manager , Association of Small Foundations (Washington DC). Communications Manager , Communities Creating Opportunity (Kansas City, MO). New Opportunities.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

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Puerto Rican Advocates Pursue Community Control of Renewable Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

In its wake, a grassroots movement to create distributed, renewable energy has gained considerable ground. The logic behind this community movement for distributed, community-owned renewable energy is clear. Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart?

Energy 101
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Drive Your Nonprofit’s Mission by Investing in Your People

Blue Avocado

As a passionate and committed leader in the nonprofit sector, I firmly believe in the power of community organizations to drive positive, equitable change. The crux of this article is simple: Nonprofits must advance their mission by valuing their employees’ worth through fair compensation and benefits and by celebrating their worth.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.