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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Morgan Housel on Unsplash The funding landscape for nonprofits has undergone a seismic shift. Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. There is a better path forward, one we call enterprise capital. What Is Enterprise Capital?

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. In this way, shared work becomes the aligning principle.”

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Impact of International Aid Cuts on African Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Lagos Food Bank Initiative on Pexels The United States is cutting nearly all foreign aid, with sub-Saharan Africa being the most affected region, losing billions of dollars in funding that previously supported health, humanitarian, and development programs. Africa must change its perception of aid.

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Providence Nonprofits Reeling from Funding Cuts and Threats (And, Organizations—What You Can Do!)

NonProfit Quarterly

Theyre all nonprofits. To say that many nonprofits would cease to exist without [federal] funding is putting it mildly. Recent executive orders by the Trump administration are touching off fear and uncertainty among nonprofits in Providence and other cities across the country. And theyre under attack.

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Nonprofit Budgeting 101

The Charity CFO

Nonprofit budgeting may be a source of dread for many, but there are ways to make the process (and outcome!) Keeping that in mind, let’s go over what we’ve learned at The Charity CFO While supporting hundreds of nonprofits with their budgets. Start with Your Mission Your nonprofits budget exists to advance your mission.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Amanda Maksin

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. . Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. Develop new ideas on how to incorporate it into current efforts and find what is trending.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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