NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

Credit: Christian Ladewig on Unsplash Nonprofits that receive government contracts and grants have gotten used to waiting months or even years for payments, often for services already delivered. The resulting budget burden can push nonprofits to take out loans, scale back programs, lay off staff, or even close their doors.

Nonprofit governance and management 79

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Homelessness Governance 79

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Launching a new nonprofit is an exhilarating feeling. Here’s something to keep in mind, starting now: self-funding a nonprofit is not sustainable. Fortunately, I had some experience in marketing that gave me ideas about how to fundraise and help the nonprofit. But big goals cost big money.

Nonprofits 98

Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management Homelessness Foundations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

Nonprofits are facing significant, arguably unprecedented, challenges and its crucial that donors, whatever their ideologies or particular programmatic goals or priorities, pay attention. Lets start with the drop in rates of giving to nonprofits. We will be taking the pulse of nonprofit leaders on this topic again this year.)

Nonprofit Administration and Development 125

Nonprofit Administration and Development Charitable Organizations Philanthropy Homelessness 125

Ann Green

JULY 22, 2025

By Kyle Payton Volunteers make the nonprofit world go round. While volunteer roles vary from nonprofit to nonprofit — after all, a thrift store , healthcare organization, and animal shelter likely all have very different offerings — there may be opportunities to provide new and interesting roles at your organization.

Public and Nonprofit Management 148

Public and Nonprofit Management Recruitment Homelessness Retail 148

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That is exactly what is demanded of nonprofit social sector leaders who are tasked with solving the most intractable social issues of our time. Nonprofit donations have dropped, aside from a brief rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest data available suggests that rates have dropped below 50% for the first time.

Homelessness 83

Homelessness Retail Poverty Health 83

Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Nonprofits raise approximately a quarter of their annual funding in the month of December. While classic fundraising appeals can encourage contributions, year-end is also a great time to experiment with unique fundraisers that make your nonprofit stand out. Gift cards. eCommerce store.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Food Homelessness 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2025

Credit: Ansel Huang on Unsplash Humans of Nonprofits is a storytelling series that explores how nonprofits shape and support the lives of everyday people. Each story shares an authentic, lived experience, revealing the many ways nonprofits intersect with individuals across all backgrounds, beliefs, and communities.

Food 52

Food Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 52

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Sponsored White Paper By Adva Priso Chief Strategy Officer Moore Digital Organic web traffic from search could be halved by 2028, with a massive impact on nonprofit marketers, according to research and strategy firm Gartner. Whats a nonprofit marketer to do? This is for two reasons. We recommend several key actions: Write for humans.

Homelessness 52

Homelessness Construction Law Marketing 52

Anedot

MARCH 11, 2025

During that time, we’ve refined and optimized our processes to offer a unique and highly impactful service to those living homeless while housed. Have had at least four years of experience in a leadership role, directly managing at least three or four people in a nonprofit, social services, or similar environment.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Homelessness Finance 52

Elevation

JUNE 9, 2025

For nonprofits, they offer a chance to celebrate achievements, increase donor trust, and share the vision for the future. For example: “ Alex, a single mother, overcame homelessness with the help of our housing program. Altru AI Looking to build a dynamic microsite for your nonprofit’s annual report? What should you include?

Homelessness 52

Homelessness Nonprofits Children Management 52

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Imagine youre opening a nonprofit thrift store. In-Kind Gift Donation Receipts Whether you run a food bank, thrift store , homeless shelter, or disaster relief organization, any nonprofit that collects physical items (or accepts in-kind services) must know the differences between cash and in-kind donation receipts.

Disaster Relief 52

Disaster Relief Public and Nonprofit Management Retail Charitable Contribution 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Image: “I Share My Truth ” by Renée Laprise/ www.reneelaprisearts.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” In Parable of the Sower , Octavia E.

Leadership 136

Leadership Environmental Children Activism 136

Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 6, 2025

This plan helps you accomplish your goals and ensure the long-term success of your nonprofit. In this guide, well provide steps for creating a strategic plan tailored to the current circumstances surrounding your nonprofit so you can not only get through challenges but also grow through them. Choose the right type of strategic plan.

Homelessness 52

Homelessness Recruitment Governance Philanthropy 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2025

These groups include people living with disabilities, people experiencing homelessness, people with low or no incomes, young people (especially those labeled as “at risk”), elderly community members, and individuals engaging in crimes or those who have been formerly incarcerated. Additional reference information available here.

Disaster Relief 65

Disaster Relief Community Development Associations Leadership 65

Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2025

If volunteers make up a large percentage of your nonprofits team, you know how important their support and dedication are in your efforts to achieve your mission. We want to help your nonprofit succeed and make volunteer recruitment the best part of your job. For many nonprofits, volunteers are the face of the organization.

Recruitment 54

Recruitment Participation and motivation Disaster Relief Activism 54

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Part of this work involves connecting people with lived experiences of homelessness, precarious rentals, and manufactured housing with homeowners fearing gentrification and displacement. Nonprofit housing groups, in short, can be movement allies, not opponents. These all are interconnected and dynamic.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Unlike big commercial banks, most public banks (and all California public banks under state law) will be nonprofits and use their earnings from loan interest and fees to reinvest in local economies and large-scale community-wide projects. While not yet prevalent in the United States, public banking is common globally.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

Anedot

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We achieve this through our point-to-point food recovery program, where our staff drivers and volunteer Food Runners collect excess fresh food from businesses, schools, hospitals, and more, delivering it directly to food distribution partners, including homeless shelters, senior housing centers, and after-school programs.

Management 52

Management Food Environmental Insurance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.

Civil Society 142

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Law 142

Blue Avocado

MAY 13, 2025

Community engagement is the lifeblood of many successful nonprofits. When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community: “How does your nonprofit involve the local community in its programs and initiatives?” ” and, once again, nonprofit leaders came through! Our community has an active Main Street program.

Public and Social Policy 65

Public and Social Policy Universities Collaborations Law 65

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 31, 2025

Most nonprofits know how to capitalize on periods of elevated giving throughout the year, such as cause months, Giving Tuesday , and the year-end season. When nonprofits want to grow their capacity or take on large projects, they need consistent, reliable revenue. Receive a shoe recycling kit. Collect gently worn, new and used shoes.

Social Enterprise 59

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Fundraising Fundraising 59

Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The dizzying flow of executive orders, memos, and legislation that impact the social sector has led to confusion and anxiety for nonprofits across the country. As a nonpartisan data organization created to encourage nonprofit and philanthropic transparency, we want to cut through the noise and ground the conversation in facts.

Non-Profits 105

Non-Profits Law Governance Homelessness 105

iMarketSmart

MARCH 19, 2025

Especially if that stranger appears to be impoverished or homeless and the donor once feared becoming like them, or if they knew someone who fell upon hard times. But with enough motivation driving them, theyll be more receptive to proposals to fund certain aspects of a nonprofits mission (the WHAT). At best, a polite no thank you.

Fundraising 59

Fundraising Fundraising Donor Motivation Values 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

By Jacob Harold Nonprofits sometimes complain that United States-based foundations treat the government’s 5 percent payout requirement as "a ceiling, not a floor." The first recognizes that when economic or social forces dampen other sources of nonprofit revenue, foundations can help stabilize the system.

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Medical Foundations Homelessness 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 27, 2025

As advisors to donors and nonprofits, we know firsthand the impact this wealth can have, and were optimistic that much of it will be deployed through philanthropy or values-aligned investing to address our worlds most pressing problems. What will women choose to do with this windfall? And its not just about the billionaires.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Collaborations Management Environmental 126

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 16, 2025

Libraries, sometimes a communitys only hub, are now often expected to serve as emergency climate shelters and refuges for those experiencing homelessness or mental health crisesusually without staff receiving specialized training, support, or additional compensation.

Education 105

Education Education Law Children 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 26, 2025

The impact on nonprofits and the communities they serve has been devastating. Nonprofits serving queer and trans communities are doing so much with too little.” Meanwhile, nonprofit workers are facing heavier workloads , political targeting , and threats of violence , all of which are leading to burnout.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits Homelessness 89

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

But libraries, which are often overstretched and fighting to maintain funding, cant do everything thats needed to address homelessness, especially as the climate crisis worsens already difficult situations. Of course, its more than just the direct impact of weathering a natural disaster that can thrust people into homelessness.

Homelessness 96

Homelessness Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Insurance 96

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

Lentz is an LGBTQ+ activist and CEO of the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative , a global nonprofit committed to advancing LGBTQ+ rights and creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people. The Pushback Against Erasure Today, trans women of color continue to face elevated rates of homelessness , violence , and other types of discriminat ion.

Nonprofit Organizations 75

Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit Organizations Homelessness Governance 75

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The problem is, however, that many of these organizations are also underresourced, and many nonprofit workers are struggling to survive themselves. At the time of his death, Neely was homeless, named on the list of 50 people experiencing homelessness in New York who were most in need of help. million people.

Poverty 122

Poverty Medical Insurance Healthcare 122

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A Personal Connection Ive worked in the nonprofit sector for two decades, but my commitment to the compassionate lending movement grew more recently, out of a family crisis. Her situation led me to ask myself: How could the educational nonprofit that I lead effectively intervene in cases like hers?

Education 110

Education Education Community Development Homelessness 110

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

Its AWP: The Association of Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference for the nonprofit of the same name, which serves creative writers, academics, publishers, and literary journal and book editors. Thats a stated priority for AWP, which normally is a money-making event for the nonprofit. Its a matter of timing.

Insurance 108

Insurance Public and Nonprofit Management Health Food 108

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this. The bizarre incident was one of hundreds of similar scenes of confusion, fear, and uncertainty across the nonprofit world after the attempted federal funding freeze. The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this, as more are sure to come.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Image credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr At a US House of Representatives hearing on Wednesday titled Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild, Republican and Democratic members clashed as each party sought to paint exceedingly different portraits of the US nonprofit sector. They are attempted censorship disguised as accountability.

Governance 104

Governance Nonprofits Law Health 104

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Theyre all nonprofits. To say that many nonprofits would cease to exist without [federal] funding is putting it mildly. Recent executive orders by the Trump administration are touching off fear and uncertainty among nonprofits in Providence and other cities across the country. And theyre under attack.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 12, 2025

As Louisiana Weekly reported , some of the impacted students were already dealing with homelessness and other compounding crises—one Job Corps student in Detroit noted that he had just recently settled into the program when he and dozens of others were told they had to leave. It’s what we do naturally,” Lee Pruitt said. What Comes Next?

Universities 117

Universities Homelessness Education Education 117

Ann Green

JUNE 3, 2025

In nonprofit communication, organizations will overcomplicate things or use jargon and other language donors dont understand. Yet, some nonprofit organizations still use jargon in their donor communication. One of the most important aspects of communication (written and verbal) is to make sure your audience understands you.

Healthcare 187

Healthcare Food Homelessness Medical 187