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Balancing Mission With Human-Centered Leadership

The Charity CFO

At MCEA, their mission to use law and science to protect Minnesota’s environment and the health of its people serves as a crucial touchstone. For example, when working on a recent bill to achieve 100% clean energy by 2040, MCEA’s role was to ensure the legal language matched the intent of the law.

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8 universal truths that can make your writing easier

Jeff Brooks

Parkinsons Law. In writing, the Pareto Principle means: Most of your productivity happens in a small amount of time. Law of Diminishing Returns. Favor productivity over perfection. This is especially true for writing, as this post from Publication Coach says, at 9 mental models to help you write smarter, not harder. (I

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5 Legal Issues For NPOs Using ChatGPT

The NonProfit Times

AI systems rely on vast amounts of data to train and improve their algorithms, and nonprofit leaders must ensure that the data they collect is used in accordance with applicable federal, state, and international privacy laws and regulations. is managing partner of the Tenenbaum Law Group PLLC, in Washington, D.C. Tenenbaum, Esq.,

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What’s Next for Community Development Finance?

NonProfit Quarterly

However, the term CDFI is far more recent, the product of the passage of federal law in 1994 that created the CDFI Fund in the US Department of the Treasury, which provides grant support that has played a major role in the sectors growth. Rosenthal noted that timing was critical in moving the CDFI Fund from policy idea into law.

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What do nonprofits struggle with the most?

Blue Avocado

Randi Sunshine from Learning Rights Law Center Funding Day-to-Day Operations Funding day-to-day operations is one of the biggest struggles our small nonprofit has. We want all funds to go straight to programs, but the reality is wages and space require funds in order to raise funds. Submissions may be edited for length and clarity.

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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

They also had access to forests where they could collect timber and non-timber forest products such as mushrooms. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. Fair housing litigation can force these changes, as can state “ housing elements” and “ fair share ” laws that require local affordable housing assessments and action.