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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

The Kresge Foundation supports the education and research skills training that has helped develop solutions to severe flood risks in these areas. The energy of enslaved people was usurped to build Georgia long before processes were developed to harness electricity.”

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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

Specifically, the bill positions worker ownership into three programs through the Economic Development Administration. But will policy victories lead to change on the ground? What we lack is a coordinated effort to expand outside of our internal conversations. Worker ownership is a natural fit to achieve these goals.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Today’s public officials are most often trained in areas of administration, policy development, fiscal analysis, and in stewarding public resources and promoting public accountability. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About

Stanford Social Innovation Review

He believed he’d been recruited as an IT administrator for a company called Samasource. hour, looking at some of the worst things imaginable to decide whether they violated Facebook’s content policies. Not long after, he developed PTSD. But when he arrived in Nairobi, he realized his job was entirely different.

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Innovative Strategies to Promote Your Nonprofit’s Fundraiser

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Innovative Strategies to Promote Your Nonprofit’s Fundraiser Fundraising events are some of the most important elements in any nonprofit’s calendar. Let’s explore a few of the strategies that could make a difference when promoting your nonprofit fundraiser. You don’t have to be limited to painted works, either.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

If you loved our 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2018 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! Nonprofit Management. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Nonprofit Management.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“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.