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Why community foundations play a critical role in the success of the nonprofit sector

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

Community foundations play an important role in the geographic regions they offer support to. Today’s guest, Joel Zarrow, helps us to further understand the purpose of a community foundation and how community foundations offer support to nonprofits in their region.

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9 Essential Nonprofit Management Skills & Development Tips

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

As a nonprofit professional, you understand that investing in your staff is the best way to develop your organization. While some skills are innate, many nonprofit management skills can be taught. Getting certified in the nonprofit sector makes nonprofit professionals seven times more likely to reach the director level or higher.

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Public Dollars for Public Good

NonProfit Quarterly

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.” Even many equity-oriented donors and foundations have at times worked at cross-purposes with the public sector.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

At Candid, we believe that sharing and learning from one another helps empower our sector’s collective success.  Candid’s Issue Lab is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing social sector knowledge. HBCUs have been critical in educating Black people, developing Black leaders, and addressing inequality throughout U.S.

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Share Your Secret Sauce

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Elizabeth Cushing We love to talk about scaling solutions in the social sector. Many thoughtful authors have offered perspectives here at SSIR and elsewhere on how to think about scale— Jeff Bradach of Bridgespan , Kevin Starr of Mulago Foundation , and Irina Snissar Lobo and Maria Zapata of Ashoka , to name a few.

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Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation

NonProfit Quarterly

Organizations that work in organizational and leadership development (aka capacity building) not only support the nonprofit sector, but shape it. That is why capacity builders need to take a stand. How they do so matters. We have power. And we’re uncomfortable with it. Their work must be grounded in values of social justice.

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What We Can Learn From the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Fineberg of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation penned an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle, lamenting philanthropy’s inability to join forces to amplify and expedite impact. By Melissa Stevens & Greg Tananbaum. A few weeks after the WHO declared the COVID-19 pandemic, Eric Braverman of Schmidt Futures and Dr. Harvey V.