NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Additionally, there is a dominant narrative in philanthropy that Black people are often the recipients of charity rather than the people who give (119). People of color continue to struggle with imposter syndrome, and feeling like the work they produce and the ways in which we show up are highly scrutinized,” Randall told NPQ.

Philanthropy 116

Philanthropy Leadership Values Culture 116

Affnetz

APRIL 30, 2024

One important question in this process is: How do we calculate donor retention rate? In this article, we will explain what donor retention rate means, why it matters, and provide strategies to improve it. It’s also crucial to maintain and build relationships with existing supporters.

Retention 104

Retention Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Management 104

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If that slice is elderly, White, male, and English-speaking, we ought not to be surprised when a young Latina immigrant opts not to participate. Everyone gains from meeting and learning about neighbors who see the world differently than they do. That is, nonprofits tend to draw in a particular slice of the community.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 127

Nonprofit Administration and Development Recruitment Culture Participation and motivation 127

Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

Seeking connections, reciprocity, and agency According to Weatherford, who started a nonprofit at age 12, “youth-led, youth-driven service experiences cultivate a greater sense of agency, purpose, and interconnectedness.” This, in turn, helps them learn “how to navigate pathways” through complicated systems, explained Dugan.

Leadership 119

Leadership Foundations Activism Collaborations 119

NonProfit Leadership Center

MARCH 8, 2024

We recently interviewed more than 20 nonprofit CEOs and funders to understand what they believe makes a leader most impactful. Someone with influence and inspiration — Someone who inspires their teams and the community.” Someone who looks beyond serving people and is thinking about systems and their impact on their mission/issue.”

Leadership 98

Leadership Culture Nonprofits Nonprofit Leadership 98

Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

We often talk about the role of philanthropy and the ways in which it must grow and innovate, how it has changed and evolved with the times, reacting to crises, wars, economic downturns, and more. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities.

Philanthropy 78

Philanthropy Organizational Change Leadership Foundations 78

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Image credit: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash A commonly uttered phrase in movement organizing spaces is: “Those who are closest to the problem are closest to the solutions.” When…we have [formerly incarcerated] men and women who have been elected to these roles, it is the epitome of community forgiveness.”

Poverty 136

Poverty Health Education Education 136

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2024

Childress, who co-chairs the firm’s DEI Protection Task Force, says confronting such litigation could force nonprofits and philanthropies to face profoundly difficult decisions. And then we saw a quick move to corporate diversity initiatives.” The nonprofit and philanthropic sectors are at growing risk. “A

Philanthropy 136

Philanthropy Law Nonprofits Universities 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 25, 2024

What makes it so special is its focus on those who do the real work, and a growing horde of doers who show up in Oxford without a ticket has made it that much better. When these big checks started to drop, those of us who were doing, uh, Medium Bet Philanthropy were delighted. It’s like a one-stop shop for the serious funder.

Philanthropy 81

Philanthropy Recruitment Production Fundraising 81

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

Image credit: “Oxygen” by Martine Mooijenkind / www.knutselfabriek.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s winter 2023 issue, “Love as Social Order: How Do We Build a World Based in Love?” How do we build a world based in love? 19 We must guard ourselves from distraction. The first is discipline.

Ethics 131

Ethics Activism Governance Production 131

MNA Association

JANUARY 29, 2024

Through this Request for Information (RFI) process, we will select a group of vendors for follow-up, which will include asking you for more in-depth project plans and budgets. To help vendors understand our priorities, we share some of our expectations and preferences as to who we would like to work with below.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Associations Leadership Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 28, 2024

When the opportunity came up in 2019 to build our Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center, we [schools of Public Health, Social Work, and Medicine] submitted proposals. Lloyd Michener, who was at Duke then. I asked them if we could do a third edition focused on maternal health populations. We have an introductory section.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Health Medical Race and Ethnicity 91

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dr. William Barber II, who is quoted in the article. We are serving notice to our state legislatures…that we will not be ignored, that we aren’t going anywhere, and that poor and low-wage voters are mobilizing.” Image credit: Susan Melkisethian on flickr.com Disclosure: The author is the daughter of Rev.

Poverty 108

Poverty Public and Social Policy Healthcare Homelessness 108

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

That means we will need to warm up a new IP address and rebuild our sender reputation. In our case, we are leaving Keap/Infusionsoft and moving to ActiveCampaign. We’ll share what we learn along this journey as we use the new tools, especially since many nonprofits use ActiveCampaign too.

Nonprofits 86

Nonprofits Activism Marketing Marketing 86

CNPE

APRIL 10, 2024

We invite new board members onto our team because they have valuable skills that our organizations need. But too often we don't spend enough time helping them translate their experience into effective board work. These 3 classes help board members be more effective - and more willing to serve! Please share this with your board!

Finance 98

Finance Governance Fundraising Fundraising 98

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Through our All-Access Pass training program and our Communications Director Mentoring Program, I meet many nonprofit communicators in coordinator or assistant positions who want to be promoted to the manager or director level. We also work with communications directors who are working toward VP or C-Suite (“Chief of”) jobs.

Leadership 86

Leadership Communication Management Marketing 86

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 8, 2024

Research from the Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead initiative found that 63 percent of POC leaders cite a lack of access to individual donors as a fundraising challenge, compared to 49 percent of white leaders who say this is a challenge. We need BIPOC leadership. For me, the answer is a clear no! The country’s 33.2 million (9.6

Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Leadership Non-Profits 112

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 21, 2024

This language includes eco-grief , defined as “the anguish and despair we feel when the places we live in and love deteriorate, along with these places’ ability to provide us with solace.” To the list of new climate-related emotions, we must add climate fatigue. The message can be tuned out, even when it matters deeply.

Disaster Relief 113

Disaster Relief Health Environmental Universities 113

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Getting Out Is the Biggest Problem Crosby, 67, who is the President of the National Federation of the Blind of Texas (NFBT), sees the importance of community when she looks back on Hurricane Harvey. The friend who picked her up during the storm and other blind people who checked on her as the weather worsened were key to her safety.

Medical 144

Medical Disaster Relief Environmental Management 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

By Elizabeth Cushing We love to talk about scaling solutions in the social sector. It feels good to imagine a day when every person who needs support can get it. Those of us who lead nonprofit organizations and aspire to scale often turn to this literature so we can design our efforts in smart ways. What Is Scale Exactly?

Collaborations 126

Collaborations Children Philanthropy Values 126

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

As NPQ reported, “Another name for climate fatigue is apocalypse fatigue, based on the idea that much of our global coverage about the environment is dismal, dystopian, and inevitable: that we are destined to fail.” Adults who live alone and have no one to check on them suffer during every heat wave. As Grist reported, “In the U.S.

Public and Social Policy 75

Public and Social Policy Sociology Health Medical 75

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That’s partly because we haven’t properly defined who a climate migrant is. It can be misunderstood even by climate migrants themselves, who often attribute their moves to other factors without fully understanding the role of climate change in that decision. That country lost a record 45.7

Environmental 115

Environmental Food Insurance Homelessness 115

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 2, 2024

Its outcome was a positive 10-point shift in voters who had been engaged by nonprofits in the 2022 midterm election, increasing their likelihood of voting from 46 percent to 56 percent—a figure that rivals and, in many cases, exceeds the turnout produced by conventional political campaigns. Local nonprofits “are a known person.

Nonprofits 118

Nonprofits Activism Food Education 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As a result, they lose the benefits of storytelling, the way people who experience a great story are cognitively transported into the world of the characters, experience the world through the character, and return to their world changed by the story. Instead, organizations sharing about their impact can feel like social change-y Mad Libs. “We

Homelessness 132

Homelessness Culture Poverty Collaborations 132

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

During our recent webinar on updating your nonprofit’s style guide for 2024, we addressed head-on how much of the debate around so-called “woke” language actually begins in the nonprofit sector. Today, we know folks working in the nonprofit sector are more likely to use identity-first or person-first language.

Nonprofits 87

Nonprofits Values Communication Marketing 87

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We sat down with clinician and advocate Rebecca Weston to talk about climate psychology, movement journalism, and the responsibility of journalists and clinicians to connect to the emotional impacts of the climate crisis. Iris Crawford: So, break it down for me and for folks who will be watching this.

Psychology 129

Psychology Health Activism Public and Social Policy 129

Candid

MARCH 6, 2024

Candid did something bold in 2023: We asked that funders put their trust in us by providing unrestricted grant support for our planned mission-critical work—projects we believed would make the biggest impact for the sector at large. At Candid, we couldn’t agree more.

Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities Philanthropy 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

These actors are already thinking about how to scale up to take the lead in confronting what are—we must acknowledge—considerable forces of resistance, especially from entrenched elites who profit from confusion and division. Where does social justice philanthropy fit in? Some foundations are stepping up to this reality.

Philanthropy 138

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 138

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2024

I had a hunch that there were Black women who had experienced some of what I’d experienced, but I just didn’t know if it would resonate. Every book talk, there is at least one Black woman who comes up to me while I’m signing her book and is talking through a story that is deeply painful. It was my story. It’s been deeply resonant.

Health 105

Health Leadership Universities Philanthropy 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

By Luz María Velázquez & Patricia Torres We are Lumi and Paty. We both have worked across a variety of disciplines, including teaching, ethics, economics, architecture, and design. And although we belong to different generations, we share a culture and experiences as Mexican women.

Nonprofit governance and management 114

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Participation and motivation Public and Social Policy 114

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Journalists and outlets—including Civil Eats—who receive support from the foundation have full editorial control over their content.” Since the decline of the industry’s ad-driven business model was hastened by the Great Recession, more than half of newspapers have shuttered across America and the industry has shed more than 20,000 jobs.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 130

Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2024

Typically, when you make a solicitation, you hear one of three responses: “ Yes ,” “ No ,” or “We need more time.” It’s not a matter of one person or style being better than another — but the bottom line is that we are very different, and whether we like it or not, we must respect those differences.

Fundraising 90

Fundraising Fundraising Ethics Communication 90

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Activists directly confronted new art galleries with protests and headline-grabbing disputes over who has the right to live and work in a community that has been the center of Mexican-American history and culture for generations. Early on, we set our sights on supporting one of the most visible victims of gentrification: small businesses.

Culture 116

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 116

Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2024

We simply aren’t going to be successful if donors don’t have faith in us. They must have full confidence that we and the organizations we serve are going to do what we say we’re going to do and fulfill their philanthropic intent. Personal gifts : We often work with donors of substantial wealth. “De

Ethics 83

Ethics Education Education Race and Ethnicity 83

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 6, 2024

We also partner with corporates that offer gig work and services for Meshers, such as s ales gigs for brands like Unilever , mentorship by Deloitte, or affordable credit from 4G capital. A nearly equal proportion of men and women make up the informal economy, so we knew this ratio was off. Here are six things we did to move the dial.

Production 96

Production Retention Finance Entrepreneurship 96

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Top Women Empowerment Quotes From Strong Women Top Women Empowerment Quotes From Women who speak up and make a change. ” — Audre Lorde “I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” Women are already strong. ” — G.D.

Children 98

Children Marketing Marketing 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What if I told you that we all possess the power to heal and transform how trauma manifests in our bodies? Further, music, art, and creative expressions are portals through which we can activate our power to heal. The fact that we can be aware of our awareness is a meta superpower. What are we bringing to the spaces we are in?

Energy 132

Energy Healthcare Medical Activism 132