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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

Get Fully Funded

As your nonprofit starts to blossom, don’t be surprised if you are conflicted over how much to spend on nonprofit administration, especially fundraising. But you have to spend some money on running your nonprofit. Overspending on fundraising is NOT the problem I see most often in small nonprofits, though.

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Black Co-op Farms: Building a Worker Strategy in Mississippi

NonProfit Quarterly

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

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How to Eliminate the Myth of Meritocracy and Build the World We Deserve

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1935, the Social Security Act, introduced by the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established an idea that expressed the value that (some) Americans deserve a government that will not allow them to slide into poverty if they fall on hard times, become ill, and/or age out of the workforce. None of this was an accident.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

She also lives in a food desert, which makes getting nutritious and affordable food difficult. The nearest fresh food grocer is three miles away, across the 101 freeway. She can afford one big shopping trip in the month and at the end of the month she visits the local food pantry to subsidize until she gets her next paycheck.

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How Dollar Store Kudzu Consumes Local Economies—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

An example of this was profiled at NPQ in 2019, when we published a detailed study about the closure of a food co-op that had opened three years before in a Black community in Greensboro, NC. To the extent dollar stores drive out grocery stores, residents’ access to healthy food is reduced.

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Newsletter: How to Host a Shopping Day Fundraiser ; Crayola Launches a Cause-Related Flower Business ; Are Corporations Really Committed to Ending Childhood Hunger?

Selfish Giving

Your nonprofit raises money. Please conduct thorough research and develop a detailed guide with step-by-step instructions to assist readers in achieving [desired outcome] 3. Director, Corporate Partnerships & Business Development, Boys & Girls Clubs of America , Southwest Region 4. Brain Food 1. Clevah, right?

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How to Project Future Finances With Nonprofit Bookkeeping

MNA Association

With nonprofits seeing a recent decline in revenue across the board, it’s more important than ever to plan ahead financially. Fortunately, if your nonprofit keeps thorough records to file necessary tax forms , you’ve already got access to a key financial planning tool: bookkeeping data.

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