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by Andreas Karelas on September 22, 2018
Categories: Current Issue| Fundraising| Leadership and Management
Topic Tags: Funding
Just about all nonprofits struggle with fundraising, and nowadays many are also concerned with enlisting the support and engagement of the next generation of donors: millennials. Well, what if I told you that you can solve both these challenges simultaneously and that enlisting young people in helping raise money and awareness for your cause is the best way to get them engaged? When I started RE-volv, a solar crowdfunding platform that raises money for solar panels for nonprofit organizations in 2011, I had a vision for empowering people around the country to deploy clean energy in their communities. It seems …
In the last issue of Blue Avocado, we discussed how board evaluations of executive directors (CEOs) are different from all other performance evaluations in the organization. These differences — including the limited ability of board members to observe …
Most nonprofit discussions about conflicts of interest are similar to those in the for-profit sector: they focus on financial benefit to board members or staff to the detriment of the nonprofit organization. The classic examples: the nonprofit buys som …
Can nonprofit boards vote by mail and email? As is true of so many matters, there are legal answers and sensible answers to this question, which may not be the same. Attorney Gene Takagi and Emily Nicole Chan discuss both in this helpful article …
As nonprofits serving people and communities in these difficult financial times, we don’t expect things to turn around for our communities in the near future. Many of us are wondering: how can we achieve a balanced budget in these times? When is it oka …
"I was on the board of a national social justice organization for three years. The Development Director discovered that the "external-auditor-turned-internal-accountant" had been embezzling funds by stealing checks and using the "st …
Dozens of Blue Avocado readers gave our writer Keiko Rosenstiel a lot to work with: After hearing from so many Blue Avocado readers what is the right way to sign off on a nonprofit email, I’ve come to the conclusion that there i …
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