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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets. The Peoples Money for the Peoples Needs What difference could a public bank make? It turns out, quite a lot. It turns out, quite a lot.

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April is National Volunteer Month. Do you know where your volunteers are? 

Candid

As the nonprofit sector seeks ways to continue its work in the face of ongoing challenges, volunteers may come to play a larger role. How do volunteers advance nonprofits missions? Volunteers are an integral part of the work nonprofits do, not only supporting their day-to-day operations but driving their core missions.

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5 Effective Strategies for Recruiting School Volunteers

Top Nonprofits

With 86% of public schools struggling to hire teachers and 44% of educators reporting feeling burned out, schoolsand their studentsare in serious need of additional support. In this guide, well explore top tips for recruiting a robust volunteer community, as well as suggestions to help you manage and retain your volunteers.

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How to Raise Funds for a New Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Launching a new nonprofit is an exhilarating feeling. Here’s something to keep in mind, starting now: self-funding a nonprofit is not sustainable. Before you start making Asks, you have to assemble your Board, recruit your initial volunteers, set up an accounting system, establish a website, and tackle a few other tasks.

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From Gig Work to Good Work: How Workforce Policy Can Support Gig Workers

NonProfit Quarterly

I have been involved for many years, running a pioneering program for Great Britain’s government and then advising US agencies through a nonprofit. In the United States, the public workforce system has nearly 2,300 job centers competing with for-profit staffing agencies. This is an evolving field of research and experimentation.

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Newsletter: Corporate Giving is Up - But Everything Isn’t Ducky ; Do a Cold Plunge in Patrick Mahomes Head for a Cause ; Why Your Partnership Program Needs Brand Awareness

Selfish Giving

“There has been a slight turnaround in business contributions to nonprofits, which is good news,” Curt said. Businesses prefer to donate products to nonprofits, and for good reason. But for some businesses, the real expense of a non-cash donation can be as much as eight or ten times lower than what is being reported to the public.” "Oh,

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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? Or take public benefits. Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries. But instead, we do the reverse.