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How Fundraisers Can Reconcile the Competition that Exists Between Your Donors’ & Administrators’ Hero Stories

iMarketSmart

But a nonprofit is not just a fundraising organization. In the donor-hero story, charity administrators are minions. The administrator’s role is only to dutifully obey donor orders. What works for this group is the administrator-hero story.[1] This culture difference goes beyond profit. Shared governance, and.

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Building the Spokes in the Wheel of a Solidarity Economy: A DC Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Cooperatives are a vital component within our broader vision of a solidarity economy—an economy prioritizing community accountability, equitable provision of goods and services, and democratic economic planning rather than maximum extraction, growth, and profit. In December 2020, we held a virtual convening to begin visioning together.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. These statistics hold true across time and national boundaries (Brennan et al.

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Worker Co-Ops in Health Care: Lessons from the Field

NonProfit Quarterly

Is it possible to organize private healthcare businesses in ways that don’t extract profits and instead share ownership and control with workers by design? A typical home care worker earns even less, just $18,100 per year, according to PHI , the nonprofit organization formerly known as the Paraprofessional Health Institute.

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Your Tennessee Legislative Recap for 2023

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Learn more about how the 2023 legislative session impacts Nonprofits and the Tennesseans they support The first session of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned on Friday, April 21st. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits. The legislature passed a $56.2

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When to Call It Quits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the Nicaraguan government tightened its grip on authoritarian rule, it was threatened by civil society organizations who possess the power to hold them accountable, receiving funds they do not control and investing those funds in services that preserve human rights, protect democracy, and empower individuals.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

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? Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost.