NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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.

Food 113

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2023

Over the course of our trip, we visited locations across Spain, but here we focus on Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood, a post-industrial working-class community, due to its unique co-op legacy, the community’s social fabric, and its infrastructure and governance. Food co-ops were set up in food deserts.

Governance 124

Governance Culture Food Energy 124

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) program , offered by the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance, recognizes this need and is pleased to announce the 55 outstanding individuals joining its prestigious CNP September Cohort.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Foundations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There are many lessons to be learned from Indigenous aquaculture practices, especially in the areas of climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, resource management, and food sovereignty. 2 In this, loko i‘a served a sophisticated and essential role in protein production, producing an estimated 300 pounds of fish per acre per year.

Agriculture 101

Agriculture Environmental Food Culture 101

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Investing in forests, their managing agencies, and communities that care for and depend on them is vital to handling climate change and its attendant health and economic crises. After decades of neglect, federal and state governments are making substantial investments to combat the wildfire crisis.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 89

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Blueprint 2024 lays out my thoughts on nonprofits, philanthropy and AI for 2024. Lots of executive orders and unfunded government mandates and policy proposals pushed by tech companies. AI - as the scary bogeyman/breakthrough opportunity - will help organizations finally understand what data governance is about.

Public and Social Policy 59

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 59

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

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. Even store managers earn a very modest average annual salary of $40,000. It’s not rare for dollar stores to swamp an entire community.

Retail 124

Retail Food Law Governance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change,” and was first published on May 1, 2022. It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo.

Nonprofit governance and management 136

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 136

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 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.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

Education 88

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 88

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This holiday season, give back by shopping for unique gifts from nonprofit online stores. In this gift guide, you’ll find selections from nonprofits that you won’t see in regular shops. What’s more, your purchases from nonprofit shops will support the essential work of these organizations and the individuals they help year-round.

Children 105

Children Environmental Agriculture Nonprofits 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s ⎯ and the world’s ⎯ food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 120

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. This is why finding ways to manage public procurement for public good is so important.

Public and Social Policy 83

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Insurance Public and Nonprofit Management 83

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Before I get to my review of Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding (BNB) go now and learn more about the contest the authors are hosting for nonprofits. To help put the book’s teachings into practice, the authors are launching a contest for nonprofits based in North America. Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding has a lot of good answers.

Food 198

Food Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 198

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center for Biological Diversity: Learning the Limits of Reform Strategies The Center for Biological Diversity is a national nonprofit conservation organization that believes that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature and to a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. 3 Below, we share each of our organizational stories.

Agriculture 83

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 83

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. But in places like Michigan and Minnesota , the Democrats actually won the old-fashioned way—by winning governing majorities.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 89

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

In its brief, the WHO traced the impact of prolonged droughts, which “ significantly disrupt agricultural production and lead to loss of livelihood, leaving many communities in poverty, a factor clearly linked with many common mental disorders.”

Health 84

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 84

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 27, 2022

These huge organizations, apart from making big profits by advertising and selling their product, these companies also work on social and environmental issues that are occurring in the world. Let’s discuss some of the globally occurring problems and how marketing resources can help in their management by raising awareness.

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit governance and management Manufacturing 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. Nonprofits Must Listen With Their Ears, Not With Their Eyes by Kaitlyn Ram Bo. How to Manage Internal Conflicts. By SSIR Editors. Subscribe to SSIR here.).

Civil Society 87

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 87

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Please post YOUR nonprofit marketing job here: Featuring jobs with nonprofit organizations, grantmakers, B Corps, and agencies and other vendors serving nonprofits. Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Business Development Manager Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York, NY).

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

While ROC has always been a nonprofit organization, its signature restaurant, Colors, was an LLC, created as a co-op and run by former Windows on the World workers. With the help of our late friend, Bruce Herman , a dozen Windows workers traveled to Italy to learn how to manage a successful worker cooperative restaurant.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Non-Profits 97

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Adelante Mujeres (which means Forward, Women), the nonprofit where we work and which has operated for over two decades, seeks to answer this question. The program was launched by the nonprofit Adelante Mujeres during the Great Recession in 2008. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses?

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

Selfish Giving

APRIL 10, 2017

Also on the chopping block are big donations to nonprofits. According to Engage for Good , an industry group that helps companies and causes engage consumers and employees around social issues, large checkout fundraisers like Kmart's raise hundreds of millions of dollars for nonprofits. "We 2016 America’s Charity Checkout Champions.

Retail 213

Retail Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management 213

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

When I asked for the bill to be corrected, a nondisabled manager quickly came to help her. When I told him I had ordered a butter croissant, the manager stepped in again, telling me that the cashier made a mistake and apologizing for not having any butter croissants left. When I looked down to pay, it read €700 instead of €7.

Race and Ethnicity 127

Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Law Education 127

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. Each win, whether federal or local, unleashed consequential benefits.

Public Policy 77

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 77

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The False Binary Between For-profits and Nonprofits: Where the Troubles Begin. Our reasoning was straightforward: We didn’t want to be seen as competing for funding with the nonprofits using our software. Some governments are paving the way in terms of accountability and procurement.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Non-Profits 99

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Qualitative research suggests that female family members provide extensive case management, mental health care, housing, job searches, and transportation assistance on behalf of their incarcerated and reentering loved ones, as well as laboring to keep them out of trouble with police and parole officers. billion ($40,138,541,763).

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 129

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The complex is modest, but it houses an estimated 27 primarily immigrant-led small businesses and nonprofits. A nonprofit, the East Portland Community Investment Trust , serves as the owner and lead manager and developer of the property, and for a monthly subscription fee of $10 to $100, nearby residents can become owners themselves.

Public and Nonprofit Management 97

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 97

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

Public and Social Policy 77

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 77

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

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? 39 The program also helped Burrell strengthen his communication, project management, and team leadership skills. It can’t be siloed.”

Nonprofit Administration and Development 89

Nonprofit Administration and Development Environmental Energy Nonprofit governance and management 89

Getting Attention

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Dramatic and quickly-implemented changes like the United States government shutdown—even when known in advance to be a strong possibility—are challenging to respond to promptly and well. Other food banks followed suit, including Food Lifeline (serving Western Washington) which posted a timely update for its community early yesterday.

Nonprofit governance and management 88

Nonprofit governance and management Communication Governance Associations 88

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

And we’ll also hear from Amaha Selassie of Gem City , a food cooperative in Dayton, Ohio. And we’ll also hear from Amaha Selassie of Gem City , a food cooperative in Dayton, Ohio. All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. We’ll be hearing from Minnie McMahon, of the Dudley St. Solidarity Economy Network.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 92

iMarketSmart

MARCH 29, 2020

In fact, Steve MacLaughlin , author of Data Driven Nonprofits and VP of Product Management at Blackbaud, recently shared via The Agitator that when you look at a sample of large organizations in the United States during this period, you will see that existing donors were retained at similar levels well into the last recession.

Fundraising 81

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit governance and management Universities 81

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

In my experience as a practitioner and advocate in the field, the solidarity-economy field has focused mostly on higher education, professional skill development, popular education, and community-based adult education, mostly led by small nonprofits or training cooperatives. Ditto for coding and software development.

Curriculum and Teaching 100

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 100

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

APRIL 9, 2012

If you are promoting a cause (or even a product), it needs to resonate with what people already seek. A good summary of the prevailing sentiment is this quote: “My hope is that society will become more family oriented than government oriented.” Remember: Don’t tell someone to value your cause.

Nonprofit governance and management 87

Nonprofit governance and management Entrepreneurship Governance Values 87

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The expansion of corporate and billionaire power, popularization of ethnonationalist ideologies, and election of right-wing governments, all of which create severe economic volatility for working class and poor people. Our current movement is ideologically underdeveloped and uneven. History can help us understand why. Common Trends.

Leadership 145

Leadership Culture Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 145

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 14, 2016

It IS about how nonprofits can move the needle on advocacy, education and fundraising campaigns using a focused “Share This Image/Video” call to action. And as these 3 nonprofits have found, it can be incredibly effective. EXAMPLE 3) Facebook Users Convince Hungarian Companies to Wash GMOs From Food Supply. Oodles of Tips.

Nonprofit governance and management 43

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Associations Recruitment 43