NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. The SABSA healthcare cooperative is one of over 11,000 enterprises in the province of Quebec’s distinctive social economy. “We

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 12, 2025

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 6, 2025

Nonprofits canand ought toengage in a wide range of civic and election-related activities. Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. After all, 501c3 nonprofits cannot endorse candidates for public office.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 16, 2025

The study, conducted across eight nonprofits, used Donor IQ’s behavior-based AI to predict donor giving patterns and optimize fundraising strategy. “Our mission has always been to help nonprofits maximize their net donations,” said Brian Anderson, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Fund Raising Strategies.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

The time has come, however, for comprehensive reform recognizing guardianship not as a routine administrative process but as a valued and necessary intervention to be used only as a last resort. The root of this crisis lies in the legal system’s overreliance on guardianship to manage complex human needs.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 2, 2024

Established nonprofit organizations play a vital role in addressing social issues, driving positive change, and enriching communities. In this article, we explore the seven stages of development that established nonprofits often navigate as they strive for excellence in advancing their mission and serving their constituents.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 25, 2025

Coproduced by the Charity Reform Initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies and NPQ, this series examines how to facilitate giving while ensuring donor funds reach operating nonprofits in an efficient and effective manner. When have nonprofits been on thinner ice than today? trillion in assets. It’s no wonder why.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

Built for donors, nonprofits, and financial advisors, Daffodil brings modern software to charitable giving, with tools for transparency, alignment, and measurable impact. Daffodil is a real-time matching engine that aligns donor intent with nonprofit impact. Daffodil is a Blackbaud Social Good Startup Partner. rail-container).hide();

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 12, 2015

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. I worked with the PR manager to brainstorm ideas on garnering media coverage. timeframe.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 27, 2025

Image Credit: anuwat Sikham on iStock In healthcare and social services, amid an aging population and an increased demand for care, there is a growing need for neutralor at least quasi-neutral honest brokers who can build trust and balance the conflicts of competing parties. Theyre usually not part of the organizational team.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2025

Nonprofits are no strangers to uncertaintywhether from economic downturns, environmental disasters, shifting donor priorities, or changes in government policy. Despite the challenges these moments of uncertainty present, they also show just how adaptable and strong the nonprofit sector is.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 1, 2025

But every day, Ava and her nonprofit do what too many political “leaders” promise but don’t deliver: meet the needs of the communities they serve. She got to work, as nonprofit leaders do. Purpose-driven nonprofits expand the “We” of “We the People” when those in power seek to exclude people from it. Let’s call her Ava.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 7, 2009

As you may know, I am in the middle of writing the full-length, printed book version of Nonprofit Marketing Guide, to be published in Spring 2010 by Jossey-Bass. Here is the my list of 10 marketing realities for nonprofits, with abridged commentary. Neither is communications or public relations.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates. To create change in such a system requires systems leadership.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Faced with a broken system, more Americans—across urban, suburban, exurban, and rural communities—are rallying around a positive vision for the future, one rooted in social housing systems that ensure housing for all. The organic growth of local, state, and federal social housing campaigns is the seed of a structural response to this failure.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

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. Simply asking “why?” Why do I care about this? Why is this happening?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In our 2022 SSIR article, “ What Everyone Can Learn From Leaders of Color ,” we documented the assets and skills that leaders of color bring, because of their identity, that make them highly effective leaders and critical to social change. After all, there is no reason to push back so hard against a losing team.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building? Capacity building is whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. What is the Overhead Myth?

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

One major strategy to counter this fear lies in massive collaboration, a coming together of individuals, groups, and organizations at unprecedented scale to exert major influence on political and social events. Forms of Combined Power Mass mobilization to combat authoritarianism and demand social responsibility dates back millennia.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. The integration of these values has led to transformative changes in many nafda schools. million students, have been particularly affected.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Manifesting Love by **DALL-E 3/ **openai.com/dalle 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? For those impacted by AIcommunities, workers, everyday peoplesuch policies serve as essential protective barriers.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Last year, our social impact startup hit a milestone that eludes 96 percent of female founders: we hit one million dollars in revenue. We know that for social entrepreneurs trying to solve global challenges, the system is rigged. Underneath every accomplishment lies a profoundly broken funding landscape for social innovation.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

By Lisa Nutter & Tim Freudlich The simple physics equation, momentum = mass x velocity, tells us that momentum is a value we can control. With community-based leaders as a full part of the equation, is it possible to generate enough mass and velocity to equal the momentum needed to solve entrenched social and economic problems?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. Every nonprofit is left figuring out its own way to measure and report impact. ” Do-it-yourself measurement certainly is not good for cash-strapped nonprofits, who are drowning in data.

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Anedot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The ideal candidate will be deeply committed to our mission, have demonstrated success in nonprofit administration and the ability to inspire and lead a largely volunteer-driven organization. Provide and/or oversee grant writing, management and reporting, ensuring compliance with funder requirements and deadlines.

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Anedot

APRIL 8, 2025

Organization Overview With over 40 years of service, West Marin Community Services (WMCS) provides essential assistance such as food distribution, emergency financial aid, referrals to social services, and equity-driven community engagement to residents in West Marin. Ensure adherence to nonprofit regulations and best practices.

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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.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 22, 2023

Image Credit: Anders Norrback Bornholm on unsplash.com In a report published last year for Just Futures , an investment advisory firm that seeks to encourage “values-based investing,” Anand Jahi indicates that the amount of money invested on Wall Street totals $71.4 But first: what is meant by “impact investing” anyway?

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference + Catalyst Awards will offer a keynote address + 12 breakout sessions The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference returns for its 5th year and aims to address barriers, solutions, and best practices within the nonprofit sector.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

But I always had a sense of those organizations when I worked there, an internal critique of what kind of social change were we really bringing about. And we were relying on nonprofits that at the same time were losing their balance sheets. Nonprofits were the frontline response to the financial crisis, but they were also weak.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 28, 2024

Nonprofit boards are technically the most powerful entity within a nonprofit. However, too many nonprofit boards and board members don’t fully understand their core responsibilities. Despite how many nonprofit boards are struggling, board leadership and management does not have to be complicated.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Today he uses his voice to influence justice policy and lift up the voices of those most impacted. Using Twitter matches my values — fighting for change. I mostly use it to sway decision makers and educate the public. Do you have a Twitter success story to share related to your nonprofit/cause? Source: Twitonomy.

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