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JUNE 17, 2025
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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success
NonProfit Leadership Center
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
when she thinks about the Certificate in Nonprofit Management graduate program at the University of Tampa. Now the capital campaign director at the University of Tampa where she spent 18 months earning this prestigious certificate, you might add the word ‘remarkable’ to Erin’s list when you understand her story.
The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Cook, Ph.D.
How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. A small change to employment law in 1974 enabled over 10 million workers to share in the profits of their employers. Another way is still possible.
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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. If governments can work with a publicly owned bank that makes modest profits and reinvests those profits in the communities that own it, they can participate in a restorative local economy. It turns out, quite a lot.
Bill To Pull Tax Exemptions Headed Back To Congress
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
9495, putting the bill through “regular order” by being granted a Rule from the House Rules Committee, which the bill will definitely get at today’s Rules Committee meeting, according to Mark Micali, vice president of Government Affairs at The Nonprofit Alliance in Washington, D.C. House Rules Committee will consider H.R Section 4 of H.R.9495
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Can Universities Build Community? A Conference Explores Possible Paths
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Zirkel on wikimedia Can universities be effective community builders? Observers going back to the early 20th-century US philosopher John Dewey have also contended that universities play an essential role in creating a democratic citizenry. Since most universities are nonprofit or publicly owned, by law, they must be community-serving.
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Reclaiming Heritage: The Global Push for Repatriation of Looted Artifacts
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Communities want back artworks and artifacts that are of exceptional importance,” says Elizabeth Marlowe , director of museum studies at Colgate University. These recent changes shift the burden of proof onto universities and museums displaying Native American remains and belongings.
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The Next Generation of Mutualism
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. To ensure mutualism thrives in the next generation, communities need laws, regulations, practices, and capital markets that encourage solidarity and investment outside of any given silo.
Nonprofit Leadership Center Welcomes Four New Board Members
NonProfit Leadership Center
JANUARY 26, 2024
the largest nonprofit public-interest law firm in the Tampa Bay area. Julie Perrelli, CFRE Philanthropy Officer, Suncoast Hospice Foundation Julie is a graduate of the University of Florida. from the University of New England. Jennifer holds a master’s degree in literature from Texas State University. Katie Schultz, Ed.D
5 Super Solid Ways To Engage Your Supporters Online (PLUS 28 Affordable Tools to Help You Do It)
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JULY 16, 2015
NOTE: Mind the rules, the laws governing giveaways and the promotional guidelines for each social network. The universe of tools is enormous. Honor someone. Support a cause with an unselfie. Show us your favorite park, wildlife photo, architecture or playground. Tools You Can Use for Photo and Video Contests. Shortstack.
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Reading Between the Lines of that Fundraising Job Posting
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Implements new avenues of fundraising techniques, keeping abreast of industry trends, issues, and changes in the law pertaining to donations.” This is important because we are about to expand into government and foundation grants, which means someone needs to make sure we have everything set up from application to tracking to reporting.
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From Fixers to Builders
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 9, 2025
In September 2024, two months before the American public voted Republicans into control of every branch of the US national government, that question was definitively answered at a private, non-political gathering of philanthropic foundation executives and their communications officers. million times. Banks aspire to build wealth.
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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 2, 2025
That was the moment, according to Boal, when these artists came to understand that art which sees audience members merely as passive observers could itself be as oppressive as landlords or bosses handing down racist, classist, or sexist rules and laws. Through this process, TONYC helped to shape city policy and practice between 2013 and 2019.
20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship
NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 7, 2023
Last year's 2022 fellows reported a 52% increase in their board governance knowledge and skills after completing the program. This program is an opportunity to immerse myself in comprehensive board governance training, allowing me to be more impactful while doing so in a nonprofit board setting.”
Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 19, 2024
Okinawa also tops the nation in unemployment rates , irregular employment rates, and single-parent household ratios , while having the lowest university enrollment rate. By formalizing the return, the Japanese government contained nationalist fervor while keeping Okinawa as an integral part of upholding the US-Japan security framework.
Sharing Meals
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
For example, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies, and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system. About 20 percent are seated within government. Here are three keys to meal sharing: 1. Manifest your values.
Young People Are Filing Lawsuits—Is This the Future of Climate Action?
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
A New Court Tactic The youth were represented by Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit law firm. As NPQ reported in May 2023, “young people and environmental groups are increasingly turning to the courts as a means of indicting governments and corporations for their role in exacerbating the problem” of climate change.
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Making Economic Democracy Work: How to Practice Shared Leadership
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
This question was at the center of an experiment led by the Nonprofit Democracy Network , a fiscally sponsored project of the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Participatory self-governance is not easy work. We’re getting praise from places that worry me.”
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Civil Society Undermined by Conflict, Disinformation, and Repression of Protest
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 8, 2023
Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation.
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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
We have watched the nonprofit sector, which ranges from large hospitals and universities to the small magazine that’s being folded in someone’s living room, being ever more caught up in the matrix of what we might call late-stage capitalism. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws.
The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
It has been very common for governments to request AI models that can identify fraud in a public benefits systemfor instance, in the applications they receive for childcare benefits or unemployment benefits. If you were the president of the womens chess club at your university, that should count extra for you, right?
Designing for Better Mental Health Policy
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
However, state, county, and city governments are inconsistently skilled at developing local solutions. Taxpayers should expect governments to steward resources responsibly and in a way that maximizes benefit to all citizens. To be sure, the use of research evidence in policymaking is also valuable.
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Love Is the Key to Democracy
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 20, 2024
Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. When everyday people, institutions, and government act in service, out of love for the particular needs of particular people, the benefits flow outward.
Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 22, 2023
Image Credit: Thiago Matos on pexels.com A new preliminary report by the American Association of University Professors is sounding alarms over a slew of legislative and political maneuvers by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature. If you think this isn’t going to happen [elsewhere], think twice.” Last year, Gov.
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ESG Needs a Shared Language
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 11, 2022
ESG for Regulation: Helping governments make and monitor policies, compliance, and laws. ESG for Assurance exists to help business leaders and investors make better financial decisions by providing data that enables them to account for environmental, social, and governance risks. ESG for Assurance. ESG for Regulation.
Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 30, 2024
A subset of funders have started to shift resources into the hands of advocates calling upon the government to undergo a process of redress and repair. This move recognizes the federal government as, in the words of scholars William A. Universities are starting to confront their legacies and ties to slavery.
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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
But the release of landmark research in 2013, combined with a concerted campaign by the Aspen Institute and partners such as Candid and the nonprofit research centers at the Urban Institute, Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, made a strong case for greater transparency and efficiency. A Key to New Insights and Practices.
National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 10, 2023
The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. Community Reinvestment Strengths and Shortfalls NCRC was formed in 1990 to defend the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act , a law created to undo the structural racism embedded in redlining.
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How Can We Make Employee Ownership the Norm Rather Than the Exception?
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Why Employee Ownership So, what is employee ownership?
Marking the baseline
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DECEMBER 16, 2024
Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. That's the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.
The Rise of Climate Change Litigation: A New Form of Accountability
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 18, 2023
Image Credit: Markus Spiske on unsplash.com As the impacts of climate change become more severe and pervasive, young people and environmental groups are increasingly turning to the courts as a means of indicting governments and corporations for their role in exacerbating the problem. Legal action is not a new tactic for environmentalists.
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Nonprofit Talent Summit Addresses Key Workforce Challenges for Tennessee Nonprofits
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
JULY 20, 2023
The Nonprofit Talent Summit, co-presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners , Christian Brothers University Institute for Leadership Development , and Mid-South Philanthropy Network , is perfect for nonprofit executive directors, board members, HR professionals, COOs, directors, and managers.
What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 13, 2024
Consider the $10 million lead gift in 2019 from writer and artist Carolyn Campagna Kleefield to California State University, Long Beach’s contemporary art museum that now bears her name. In 2002, the university shortened the building’s name to Memorial Hall in support of inclusion and academic freedom, and UDC sued for breach of contract.
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SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List
Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 21, 2023
How do we organize to put Joy’s Law, and more broadly collective intelligence, to work?” According to Haselmayer, these principles can be practiced universally; there is space for everyone in the slow lane.” Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. Subscribe here.)
Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 18, 2024
As Brazilian movement scholar Rodrigo Nunes, argues in his recent book about movements like Occupy and the Arab Spring, there is not one universally correct answer to the question of how we make change. knew that changing government policy towards asylum-seekers would require more than quick and large protests. However, GetUp!
Why Formerly Incarcerated People Need Representation in Elected Positions
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Scott served seven years in prison after being arrested on federal drug charges shortly after obtaining his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1994. Both men experienced how easy it is for young Black men to be swept up in the criminal legal system.
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Co-op Federation Seeks to Shift Worker Co-op Movement into a Passing Gear
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Worker co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their employees. As Courtney Berner of the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives wrote in NPQ , before 2010, only one percent of US co-ops formed were worker co-ops; between 2016 and 2019, the rate jumped to 47 percent.
The Promise of Impact Science
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market. .”
Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? In many ways, I imagine a nonprofit sector committed to economic justice looking like a sector where the suggestions we made as we braced for the brunt of COVID are universal norms. If not, why not?
ACTION ALERT - TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ACT!
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Under current law, more than 90% of taxpayers don’t itemize, meaning less than 10% of taxpayers have a tax incentive to increase their donations to important causes. Small charitable gifts increased after the enactment of the temporary universal charitable deduction. That temporary small non-itemizer generated $10.9
Sticking with the Union: A Conversation with Hamilton Nolan
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 13, 2024
But after World War II and continuing through the 1970s, there was a concerted effort to make labor law harsher, to rule certain workers out of the labor movement, and to perfect the art of union busting. Can we get more resources from the government? In some ways, laws don’t matter when it comes to organized worker power.
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