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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

Bloomerang

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You’re part of the problem.

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Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation

NonProfit Quarterly

In our soon-to-be released strategic plan, we champion community-based organizations and advocate for them in philanthropy. Increasingly, we’re calling ourselves coaches—and not consultants—because we know that organizational development that fails to center people does not achieve durable impact.

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

Blue Avocado

By definition, board members should be counted on to make sacrificial gifts or at least to consider the organization a high priority for their philanthropy. Board service is actually the opposite of pay.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

All of this ultimately requires major changes in the culture, infrastructure, and practices of climate and conservation funders, including international NGOs, private foundations and philanthropies, and government funding agencies. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

Advocacy and Sector Voice The Executive Director works actively with nonprofits, policymakers, philanthropy, government, business, media, and the public at large to advance public awareness and understanding of and support for the nonprofit community in Montana.

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Managing nonprofit employees (and volunteers)

Fundraising Coach

Last week I was at the annual conference for the New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. A great session I went to was on managing development staff by Betsy Rigby, Director of Development with Partners HealthCare. It was a great conference, and I did alot of tweeting. You can see all my NEAHP tweets here.