Nonprofit Leadership Zone

Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There were few relationships across departments or levels of the organization.  Involving Everyone on the Plane After a few months of working to build trust and communication, I decided to form an Advisory Committee made up of people who were not in “formal leadership positions.” What would this committee tell me?

Leadership

Leadership Altruism and Helping Children Nonprofit Leadership

Working as a Team: Forming your advisory financial committee

The Charity CFO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Running a successful nonprofit requires many diverse skill sets, from experts in your particular field to fundraising and event pros. Unfortunately, one area where many otherwise thriving nonprofits lack experience is financial and money issues. That’s where advisory finance committees come in.

Finance

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Beyond Donations: 3 Ways to Get Support from Chapter Parents

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sit on an advisory committee. Sit on an advisory committee. Consider asking your parents to sit on a volunteer advisory committee to provide feedback on how the chapter can improve. Let’s dive into some additional engagement opportunities to leverage parents’ passion for your chapter. Act as mentors.

Public and Nonprofit Management

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Webinars

How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity Journey

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Do You Use Job Descriptions with your Nonprofit Board Members?

Affnetz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Do You Use Job Descriptions with your Nonprofit Board Members? Nonprofit Management Software / By Mike Crum. There are a lot of nonprofit board member job descriptions online, and you might have a lot of luck putting together a ‘greatest hits’ of sorts – picking and choosing. or who won’t fundraise.

Nonprofit governance and management

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Inclusive Board Meetings

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For example, BoardSource’s classic Governance as Leadership reframes the fiduciary, strategic, and leadership roles of a trustee through a lens of generative discussion, and their Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership speaks to ecosystems, equity, and participant voice. Here, the issue becomes much less clear.

Nonprofit governance and management

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In my four decades as a senior fundraising executive, part-time consultant, and nonprofit CEO, I have worked with (or served on) 20 nonprofit boards. Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds.

Nonprofit governance and management

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Mission and Values Montana Nonprofit Association provides leadership for Montana’s nonprofit sector and partners with Montana’s charitable nonprofits to promote a sustainable, networked, and influential sector. MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. In its wake, momentum for change seemed to build. And you can’t build a movement around one approach.

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New Years Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals: 2023

Beth Kanter

JANUARY 2, 2023

Update & Review My Work-Life Harmony Plan : In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience. Leaving for my first in-person event in 2022 after two years of pandemic shut down. Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. Year in Review.

Nonprofits

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

iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But a nonprofit is not just a fundraising organization. Effective fundraising culture isn’t just different from the rest of the nonprofit. Risk management. Example: Nonprofit allows a broad range of donor-created gift restrictions. Example: Nonprofit allows only a few pre-approved gift restrictions.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars we are first and foremost a provider of donor management software. If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed.

Construction

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How Do You Measure Up? [Benchmarks Webinar]

Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

How leading nonprofits use benchmarks to optimize their campaigns. At Blackbaud, Dennis has managed the Strategic Services Practice, comprised of consultants in Business Analytics, Design & Information Architecture, Deployment Services and Agency Services. How Do You Measure Up?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

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Nonprofit Board Give, Get or Get Off?

Affnetz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nonprofit Board Give, Get or Get Off? Nonprofit management software / By Mike Crum. Some Nonprofit boards have a give, get, or get off policy and their Nonprofits are suffering because of it. For example, I worked with a local educational Nonprofit that served children in public housing communities.

Public and Social Policy

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. By failing to make a coordinated effort to support a new leader and leadership approach, the agency isolated her.

Public and Social Policy

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The Importance of Asking Permission to Ask More Questions

iMarketSmart

JANUARY 9, 2023

Permission in Socratic fundraising. Suppose we’re at a social event. We start talking about our great charity. How long can we do that? Pretty much forever. We can just keep talking and talking. What if instead, we ask a question? How long can we do that? That’s up to the other person. After we ask a question, we stop talking. How do we get there?

Participation and motivation

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Why Settle for Cookie-Cutter People and Culture Practices?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 20, 2023

Look, no organization is perfect, and we are as leery as anyone about articles that proclaim that this nonprofit or that company has the secret recipe for building a great culture or achieving great results. That may seem obvious, but we have all had our experiences with less-than-stellar situations.

Culture

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Social Media: You're Probably Doing It Wrong

Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

We''ll also walk you through crucial crisis management tips to keep on hand and how to overcome common social media obstacles as well as learn from your mistakes. How to manage an Online Crisis and avoid alienating your community. Don''t worry though, we can help you change that. Register here to get the party started!

Non-Profits

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[VIDEO] Major Donor Stewardship – Strategies That Build Lasting Relationships With Your Most Significant Givers

Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Valerie Harris will focus on what is required when you commit to attracting and maintaining major donors, understanding how major donors think, and how to optimize your communications for this important donor segment. Full Transcript: Steven: Okay, Valerie. I’ve got 2:30 Eastern. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started officially?

Public and Nonprofit Management

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How to Escape the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle

The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Ever wondered why so many nonprofits are stuck in their financial struggles that they end up failing their communities? Want to make sure your nonprofit doesn’t suffer the same fate? Chyla is the Founder and CEO of CNRG Accounting Advisory. She helps nonprofits get financially established so they can achieve their goals.

Non-Profits

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[VIDEO] Young Professionals and Junior Boards: Beyond the Kid’s Table to Meaningful Engagement

Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

As young professionals who have served both as members and staff managers of these groups, Sarah Willey and Corinne Austin will lead you through the research on Next Gen supporters, challenges to anticipate, and steps your organization can take to start a new young friends board from scratch OR to maximize the potential of your existing group.

Recruitment

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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond our webinars, we are also a provider of donor management software. Dominique Calixte will equip you with the knowledge and resources to include Millennials and Gen Z in your fundraising strategy successfully. Full Transcript: Steven: Okay, Dom. I got 3:00 Eastern. Steven: All right.

Public and Nonprofit Management

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[VIDEO] Strategies for Retaining Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers and Donors

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides the webinars, we are also a provider of donor management software. But don’t do that right now because I am so excited to have one of my favorite people in the nonprofit sector. Abby, I’ve got 2:00 Eastern. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started officially?

Participation and motivation

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

In my experience as a practitioner and advocate in the field, the solidarity-economy field has focused mostly on higher education, professional skill development, popular education, and community-based adult education, mostly led by small nonprofits or training cooperatives. Like his contemporaries John Dewey and W.E.B.

Curriculum and Teaching

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy

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Disability Justice—in the Workplace (and Beyond)

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And that’s important, and the list is long for a reason, because it is a call-in to members of the community that had not been in the leadership roles and the decision making in the public leadership as much. Disability justice represents the second wave of the disability rights movement.

Public and Social Policy

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership by Anke Dregnet This recent discussion, hosted by Shareabl e , launches a new webinar series, curated by Emily Kawano. But we believe two things. Not only that another world is possible, but that it’s often already here.

Public and Social Policy

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How the America the Beautiful Initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act, and Philanthropy Are Effecting a Just Transition in Native American and Alaska Native Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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? Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.” In the United States, Tribes oversee approximately 5% of the country’s landmass.

Philanthropy

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Most worker co-ops saw and still see themselves as embedded within a broader movement for economic justice. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Until it was. The tides were turning.

Public Policy

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Nonprofit Leadership Zone

Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

Working as a Team: Forming your advisory financial committee

Webinars

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Beyond Donations: 3 Ways to Get Support from Chapter Parents

Webinars

Do You Use Job Descriptions with your Nonprofit Board Members?

Inclusive Board Meetings

Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

A Social Movement Requires Momentum

New Years Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals: 2023

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

[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

How Do You Measure Up? [Benchmarks Webinar]

Nonprofit Board Give, Get or Get Off?

Leading Together for Systems Change

The Importance of Asking Permission to Ask More Questions

Why Settle for Cookie-Cutter People and Culture Practices?

Social Media: You're Probably Doing It Wrong

[VIDEO] Major Donor Stewardship – Strategies That Build Lasting Relationships With Your Most Significant Givers

How to Escape the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle

[VIDEO] Young Professionals and Junior Boards: Beyond the Kid’s Table to Meaningful Engagement

[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

[VIDEO] Strategies for Retaining Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers and Donors

Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

Disability Justice—in the Workplace (and Beyond)

The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

How the America the Beautiful Initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act, and Philanthropy Are Effecting a Just Transition in Native American and Alaska Native Communities

Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

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