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What do nonprofits struggle with the most?

Blue Avocado

Nonprofits are crucial for communities, but they face significant hurdles. These organizations face many common challenges like securing sustainable funding, managing volunteer engagement, and navigating internal dynamics that can hinder their vital work. ” — once again, nonprofit leaders came through!

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: A Deep and Sincere Caring About the Nonprofit’s Mission The most important “quality” in a board member would be a real and heartfelt caring about the mission/goal of the nonprofit they will be involved with.

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Why Fashion Education Needs to Care About Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Why we’re still waiting for the ‘AI moment’ that will transform grantmaking 

Candid

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.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Its just about efficiency and productivity without thinking about what the broader goal of it all is.

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Executive Director

Anedot

Emergency Assistance & Case Management: Financial and resource support for crises. The ED is responsible for leading and managing all functional areas of the organization, including financial management, staff leadership, program oversight, community engagement and fundraising.