NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2025

Each installment will explore how organizations are responding to the current political landscape—and what the entire nonprofit and philanthropic ecosystem can do to support them. When the state says you don’t exist, how do you still practice your freedom? Or hold on to your dignity?” These are the questions J.

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Anedot

JUNE 16, 2025

Work closely with school administrators to ensure that all new referrals are being tracked and meet eligibility criteria. Participate with multi-disciplinary teams as appropriate to discuss potential students for referrals or participants on the caseload. Self-motivated and able to work under minimal supervision.

Management 52

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? These gaps underscore the urgent need for systems that prioritize inclusivity and equitable representation in both research and healthcare technology development.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 27, 2025

participated, Citizens Trust Bank was one of the two primary banks holding the funds of the bus boycott organizers and Atlanta Life Insurance Company, noted Guilloud, supported the taxi drivers for a year. Scale, participants said, should be achieved through relationship rather than replication.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

Image Credit: Morgan Lane on iStock How can nonprofit leaders and movement activists effectively respond to Trump 2.0, The incoming Trump administration also aims to limit federal agency power regarding social welfare. Pennsylvania is fighting its own internal legal challenges to participate.)

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

Image Credit: Christian Lue on Unsplash As the United States braces for a second Trump administration, LGBTQ+ Americans are preparing for what could be an unprecedented rollback of their rights. It also led to a reported increase in homophobic attacks as well as surveillance and shutting down of nonprofit groups.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Have you ever sat through a board development retreat and thought, “What a waste of time!” Use the following checklist to make sure you have all the essential elements in place to ensure the boad development retreat is a resounding success. If you’re in the process of planning a retreat, don’t settle!

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Such logic often applies to nonprofit recruitment of volunteers. That is, nonprofits tend to draw in a particular slice of the community. If that slice is elderly, White, male, and English-speaking, we ought not to be surprised when a young Latina immigrant opts not to participate. What Do Volunteer Administrators Say?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Your board members are a link between your nonprofit and its stakeholders and constituents. How can you develop a board of advocates who connect with and champion your mission? It’s a critical way to connect policymakers with the ideas that move our country (and your nonprofit) forward.

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 13, 2024

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are the biggest mistakes you see new nonprofits making?” Too often new nonprofits struggle to find their identity. Nonprofits are not social clubs , they have the potential to make significant positive impacts in the communities they serve. Great question.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Image credit:Rayson Tan on Unsplash Below is a transcript, edited for length and clarity, of “Escaping Corporate Capture: Nonprofit Survival in a For-Profit World,” hosted by Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY, on July 26, 2024. Moderating the conversation are Caroline Crumpacker of Ultra Advising and Steve Dubb of Nonprofit Quarterly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By Greg Fine – a marketing consultant that works to elevate nonprofit marketing impact, revitalize giving campaigns, and bring energy and awareness to nonprofit brands and their mission. Artificial intelligence is simplifying the nonprofit slog work that ties up enormous banks of time and resources. Please cite sources.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Good writing, and I mean good writing, should be a top priority at your nonprofit because good writing is a tool of tremendous power, influence, and leverage. A motivating flyer could inspire dozens of people to volunteer for your new program, and a per­suasive letter to a senator might inspire new legislation.

Participation and motivation 115

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 27, 2024

But these new and quickly developing technologies bring to the forefront many questions about the impact of AI on fundraising and the human relationships at the foundation of philanthropy. They get to know donors and their families, listen, and understand the nuances and motivations that drive donors’ behaviors.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 7, 2023

Here’s why: “High performers ask with confidence because they understand the donor’s connection and motivations. But this is what happens when nonprofits run with the ‘Ask! And just in case you’re new to this blog, MarketSmart works with hundreds of gift officers and nonprofit leaders. approach to fundraising.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 20, 2023

The reasons range from inertia (“we’ve always done it this way”) to questionable motivations (perhaps that employee wellness program isn't actually designed with employee wellness as its primary goal). Yet this, too, remains a common practice at nonprofits, foundations, and companies.

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Culture Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Almost everyone will temporarily or permanently experience disability at some point in their lives, and currently, an estimated 1.3

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

By Stasia Hural , Digital Marketing Lead at Keela – a complete software solution for nonprofits looking to grow revenue, centralize and manage data, and deepen donor engagement. Using AI isn’t just a passing trend; it’s essential for nonprofits looking to make a bigger impact. It lets nonprofits sift through lots of data.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

From 2000 to 2021, progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has been anemic, registering less than 10 percent growth over 20 years. The same 2017 survey of nonprofits conducted by IBM found that 78 percent of nonprofits with advanced analytics capabilities reported higher effectiveness in performing their missions.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 6, 2022

This news can be shocking to hear and might even make some fundraisers and nonprofit administrators fall out of their seats. It’s a very simple truth to understand, and yet so much fundraising presumes that whatever matters to some fundraisers and most nonprofit administrators must also matter to donors. But it’s true.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 9, 2023

The donor must participate. Monomyth motives. The motives can be different for each of the three steps. The first uses a social motive. The second uses an impact motive. The third uses an honor motive. This uses a value motive. Using these same motives can work. It uses a social motive.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 20, 2022

These establish motivation from the main character’s original identity. Without this, even a catastrophic threat won’t motivate action. He writes, “When an Inciting Incident occurs, it must be a dynamic, fully developed event, not something static or vague. To motivate dramatic action, the problem must be disruptive.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 10, 2022

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] Example: Nonprofit allows a broad range of donor-created gift restrictions.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 11, 2024

While the states economy is ranked number 4 in the nation by US News and World Report , the Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration reported a public sector vacancy rate of 23 percent via the Denver Post , with 7,500 state government positions open as of July 19, 2023.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

.” This proved prescient: When our NGO’s legal documents could no longer be updated without my legal residence—after almost a year of failed attempts—I had to resign and pass the legal representation to our dedicated administrator, who had served the organization since its inception. ” When Is It time?

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. At this year’s sector conference, organized by the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a sellout crowd of over 2,200 people participated and considered where CDFIs needed to go and what they needed to do.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey: As most nonprofits have these days is that renewal rates have been declining and that’s been consistent. we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . Again, integrating your own personal stories can be highly motivating to people. . But essentially.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

Despite these obstacles and in the face of ever-increasing need, the two of us swing on a heavy pendulum between naiveté and boldness and scarcity and abundance, as we experiment with nonprofit community birth center models in two major metropolitan cities. Lived Experience, Dialogue, and Knowledge Claims.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 22, 2023

He gives advice and participates.) It can come not only from the nonprofit, but also from a supporting community. This helps motivate sales requests. Administrators like these events. It found that the event, “Had little effect on participant’s relationship with the charity.”[17] The prospect gives socially. (He

Altruism and Helping 52

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

She is a nonprofit founder, former ED herself, and I always like to get that perspective whenever possible. I like to joke that I have had every job that is a Rubik’s cube in the nonprofit world, staff member, board member, founder, executive director. The average nonprofit sends almost 10 emails just in December alone.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

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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iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

The noble dream Small nonprofits have needs. And besides, the struggling nonprofit is doing good things; it deserves a big gift. The crass reality This administrator-hero story feels noble. Back to fundraising So, why hasn’t that small nonprofit received its million-dollar gift? Participants each get money.

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Values Public and Nonprofit Management Altruism and Helping Psychology 89

iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

The noble dream Small nonprofits have needs. And besides, the struggling nonprofit is doing good things; it deserves a big gift. The crass reality This administrator-hero story feels noble. Back to fundraising So, why hasn’t that small nonprofit received its million-dollar gift? Participants each get money.

Values 52

Values Public and Nonprofit Management Altruism and Helping Psychology 52

Anedot

AUGUST 27, 2024

[link] Come join Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir (“PEBCC”) as our Office Manager for the opportunity to use your expertise in administration, vendor management, customer service and human resources in service to a fantastic arts education nonprofit located in Oakland! Self-motivation and adaptability. per hour ($annualized).

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Anedot

MAY 30, 2025

As a manager, this role is responsible for modeling Ceres culture and for supporting the well-being, development and retention of the staff members that report to them. Ensures job descriptions are accurate and complete; develops and maintains detailed onboarding and training plans for new staff or staff promoted into new roles.

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