NonProfit Leadership Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

NLC’s commitment to developing strong, capable leaders aligns with my own values. Petersburg College and in biology from Saint Leo University. He also received his MBA in healthcare management from Saint Leo University. Andre holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from St.

Nonprofit Leadership 211

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Healthcare 211

Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The report’s researchers posit that a relatively stable economy, strong religious influences, and Midwestern values may also contribute to a strong culture of giving. Those early donors set a standard, expectations, and values for future generations to follow.” A strong culture of giving?

Culture 106

Culture Foundations Children Philanthropy 106

Candid

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We removed unnecessary educational requirements that might have limited our applicant pool and no longer assumed elite universities had the best talent. We’ve also developed and shared toolkits to help other grantmakers integrate DEI values into their work. We rewrote job descriptions to use gender-neutral language.

Culture 98

Culture Leadership Advertising Foundations 98

The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Supportive Work Environment: The organization prioritizes creating a workplace where employees feel valued and supported. Greg holds a bachelors degree from Shippensburg University and a masters degree from McDaniel College. This initiative has resulted in a remarkable 93% retention rate among participants.

Recruitment 52

Recruitment Retention Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profit Management 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

We do not receive any monetary support from Stanford University. Universities may be able to help by building opportunities for students to take relevant action beyond the classroom. In embracing a design approach, we can move toward greater balance in values and knowledge, more democratic process, and more responsive services.

Social Entrepreneurship 111

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

When Natasha later joined the board of directors of Mary’s Pence , she found a nonprofit that aligned with her values. Create an opportunity in your board interview process to review hobbies, university affiliations, and any mentoring programs your potential board members may be involved in. Central America, and Mexico.

Collaborations 115

Collaborations Nonprofit governance and management Education Education 115

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Review and revise your solutions’ outputs to ensure they align with your nonprofit’s messaging standards and maintain the personal touch your donors value. Sector-specific fundraising needs informed by unique data, such as managing alumni giving at universities or grateful patient programs for healthcare organizations.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Leadership 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

Three developments, in particular, worry me: a drop in rates of giving to nonprofits; widespread staff burnout; and an increasing effort to target nonprofits based on their missions and values. A recent report from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at the University of Indiana notes that the proportion of U.S. We can volunteer.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 125

Nonprofit Administration and Development Charitable Organizations Philanthropy Homelessness 125

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We need creative, diverse collaborations across various fields to ensure that technology is deployed in ways that align with nonprofit values, build trust, and serve the greater good. Identify Value-Driven Collaborators: Seek partners who prioritize social impact and mission alignment. Engage with academia and think tanks.

Collaborations 69

Collaborations Ethics Technology Foundations 69

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

A group of scientists at New York University found that when we are told something is not hot, for example, we dont picture it as cold; we picture it as less hot. Know your values. In its most simple definition, your organizations values are about what is important to you. Your values matter most when they are put to the test.

Governance 122

Governance Values Energy Universities 122

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers, Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Those volunteers generated labor valued at $167.2 Thats the equivalent of 2.5 million annual full-time employees.

Volunteerism 92

Volunteerism Volunteerism Civil Society Public Policy 92

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 14, 2025

Workers in ESOP-owned companies receive a retirement account that changes in value based on underlying share value growth (or decline) and potentially also annual dividends, with a valuation being conducted annually by a third party. Growth Potential Employee ownership, as detailed above, is already a large sector of the US economy.

Finance 95

Finance Law Collaborations Advertising 95

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Image credit: John Kevin on iStock In the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompsons murder, the public reacted with nearly universal frustration and anger with the US health insurance industry, and, in many cases, sympathy for the killers motivations.

Insurance 111

Insurance Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy 111

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. This values integration was not left to chance.

Education 76

Education Education Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 76

Candid

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I also heard that fundraising training is not for us, meaning it was designed for large nonprofits like universities, museums, and hospitals. Be ridiculously accessible to small nonprofits When I started Somos El Poder, I surveyed Latinx nonprofit leaders about the issues they faced when it came to learning about fundraising.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Culture Nonprofits 52

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. Fortunately, more effective alternatives exist that prioritize individual autonomy and community integration.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Medical 102

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 16, 2025

It is the governance capacity that supports decision-makers in aligning money with values, whether they come from lifelong scarcity or generational stability. Some foundations have started to catch on to the value of this approach. Spreadsheets alone cannot hold the complexity or volatility of the social problems they finance.

Governance 84

Governance Finance Environmental Philanthropy 84

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But our value comes from our ability to connect, educate, build capacity, support new programs and projects that fill critical gaps, communicate, advise, and coordinate advocacy for good food policy. Manifest your values. Cultivating your values to be cultivated do not cease at the close of the meeting. Clean up afterwards.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 12, 2025

The Istanbul University Institute of Child Health (IUICH) and Turkeys MotherChild Education Foundation developed a parental education intervention for expectant fathers in large workplaces. A qualitative survey of the project showed that men valued having the space to engage one-on-one with their mentors on sensitive topics.

Agriculture 69

Agriculture Children Health Activism 69

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2025

This “big green book,” as it is affectionately known, offered recommendations from a four-year learning journey undertaken by John, Jody, and a small research team from Northwestern University. See: John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor.)

Disaster Relief 65

Disaster Relief Community Development Associations Leadership 65

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

For instance, practitioners “might consider Indigenous values of interdependence to land and nature, not just other people, as knowledge to reclaim and contest hyper-individualism.” The objective of the approach is to help people identify factors that have contributed to their distress and change them by engaging in social justice work.

Health 125

Health Psychology Culture Ethics 125

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

The 1800s saw the emergence of the Underground Railroad as well as the formation of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The bottom line is something of economic value must be exchanged between peers, and this economic value must be recycled back to the community to support their mission and goals.

Nonprofit governance and management 125

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Insurance Social Enterprise 125

Affnetz

JUNE 9, 2025

For example, a Donor Retention study conducted at a mid-sized university revealed that by analyzing lifetime giving and predicting donation amounts, the institution increased its giving rate to 34 percent among alumni. First-Time Donor Program: Don’t overlook the incredible value of implementing a first-time donor program.

Retention 130

Retention Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Management 130

Clairification

MAY 12, 2025

To the contrary, now is the time to prioritize revving up your strategies to proactively engage with individual donors who can have the most transformative impact on your ability to fulfill your vision and enact your mission and values. Did you know only 12% of Americans never donate ?

Retention 57

Retention Philanthropy Universities Nonprofits 57

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 17, 2025

Often linear, top-down, and focused on control, these conventional strategic approaches not only fail to deliver the alignment they promise, but they also operate in fundamental tension with the values and missions of justice-focused organizations. Karundi Williams, the group’s executive director, wanted to clarify this evolution. “I

Values 62

Values Management Collaborations Organizational Change 62

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

Forces of power with instead are apparent in the universal order above us, in the forests and bodies of water surrounding us, in the mycelial networks under our feet, and within each of us. In addition, leaders can begin practicing three tenets that are foundational to embodying a liberatory leadership practice.

Leadership 80

Leadership Collaborations Foundations Law 80

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 6, 2025

I have been a managing director, a board member, a board president, a consultant to nonprofits, and taught college courses on nonprofit management and policy at several Chicago universities. Bothwell , professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Public Policy Nonprofit governance and management 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2025

The products approach, which had clearly defined offerings such as the Jiyyo app, was easy to understand and gave the HPs a clear sense of the potential value they could expect from a partnership with Jiyyo. The app and associated technologies were built by Jiyyo in-house and refined based on continuous feedback from the HPs.

Medical 52

Medical Health Production Governance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

By embedding values of equity and fairness into AI systems, we ensure that the development of AI is an act of love, offering tools that elevate humanity rather than exploit it. We can teach young minds that the value of creativity lies in the journeyin the act of thinking, experimenting, and iterating.

Public and Social Policy 83

Public and Social Policy Health Environmental Ethics 83

Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2025

The current estimated value of an hour of volunteer time is $33.49. When prospective recruits see your efforts to make volunteers feel welcome and valued, theyll feel more compelled to get involved. Volunteers are valuable: They provide unpaid support to your nonprofit because they feel a personal connection to your cause.

Recruitment 54

Recruitment Participation and motivation Disaster Relief Activism 54

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We dont have digital data for a lot of human intelligence, because people werent valuing the people who produce those books, or the people who produce that artit didnt get digitized, didnt get celebrated, didnt receive comments on Reddit or Facebook. And most machine-learning researchers actually value honesty about what theyre building.

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 9, 2025

By Trabian Shorters How do we get people of all political identities to willingly support social progress without compromising anyones values? Shifting to more aspirational, dignifying, values-driven, problem-naming, and accessible ways of communicating offers social sector organizations the chance to make our communications more effective.

Homelessness 116

Homelessness Poverty Foundations Law 116

Candid

JUNE 12, 2025

Three main factors drove anticipated changes in foundation giving When asked to comment on their 2025 giving expectations, respondents largely focused on three themes: The value of foundation assets: Foundations that saw their asset value increase and/or predicted strong future market performance anticipated giving more in 2025.

Foundations 90

Foundations Values Universities Marketing 90

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 24, 2025

The university community has an impressive track record of long-term data hosting for science, but there is currently no comparable infrastructure for nonprofit organizations. Exit to Open has particular value when an organization and its work is being suppressed (as is happening in an increasing number of countries).

Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Agriculture Governance 112

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 25, 2025

But this tendency is, fortunately, not universal—and some foundations and DAFs are stepping up. Over the last four years, DAF assets have increased by 67 percent in value to an estimated $254 billion in 2023. Research IPS conducted with Brian Mittendorf of the Ohio State University concludes that DAFs give to hate groups at 3.5

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Law Foundations 117

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

Yale Universitys latest estimates also propose that the countrys failing mental health systems cost the United States $282 billion every year. Using AI chatbots to provide self-help depression interventions for university students: A randomized trial of effectiveness, Internet Interventions 27 (March 2022): 100495. Hao Liu et al.,

Race and Ethnicity 87

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 87

Blue Avocado

MAY 13, 2025

Recently, he has met with our local university, Binghamton University, and found a willing and able group of different deans across multiple specialties at the university. We partner with local schools, universities, and organizations to offer internships and collaborative learning opportunities.

Public and Social Policy 65

Public and Social Policy Universities Collaborations Law 65