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Introducing April 2025’s Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) Cohort

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DBA, CFRE, CAP, ACNP , an Advanced Certified Nonprofit Professional with over a decade of experience in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and organizational development. Allison Quintanilla Plattsmier, Ed.D,

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Return to Office: What’s Happening in the Nonprofit Sector and Why?

NonProfit Quarterly

But as so many people with disabilities know all too well, the major law addressing accommodations is the flawed Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Ortega Ricketts, for instance, is still struggling to get her full remote work accommodations set in stone, even with union support.

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Critical Coalitions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Their efforts led to monumental policy changes, including the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the overturning of the “separate but equal” doctrine in US constitutional law (Gelbman 2021; Pinderhughes 1995).

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Worn paths and nonprofit organizational structure

Fundraising Coach

Not surprisingly, our by-laws need updating. We’ve come through much of the organizational development dance of the first 4 years. Share and Enjoy: Other Possibly Related posts: The Folk Dance of Nonprofit Organizational Development. The economy is totally different. But now we have some very well worn paths.

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Building the Solidarity Economy by Boosting Black-Owned Co-ops

NonProfit Quarterly

Interning at the Sustainable Economies Law Center in Oakland, I got a bird’s-eye view of the cooperative ecosystem and what cooperatives could do. I was inspired by the large-scale cooperative development that happened in Italy and Spain. This is how the Kikosi Collective developed. Photo courtesy of Repaired Nations.

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Trusting Youth to Lead

NonProfit Quarterly

They studied hiring laws, human resource ethics, comparable market compensation, and the demands of building an organizational culture, and they drafted a comprehensive, values-aligned job description for the new executive director. Ask funders for succession planning resources to use before, during, and after the transition.

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Are you lying to your nonprofit board members?

Fundraising Coach

Our by-laws require a certain number of board members and we have to fill the slots. I wrote a post about this called out The Folk Dance of Nonprofit Organizational Development.). That kind of question takes guts. Would you be able to ask it? We''re just trying to fill positions. It''s a "quantity over quality" issue.