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Making Strategic Planning (Relatively) Painless
Strategic planning time! Do I hear groans or cheers? In my experience sitting on nonprofit boards and employed as a nonprofit staff member, I typically hear some grumbling when the topic of strategic planning comes up. Volunteers (or very minimally pai …
Re-Opening After Covid-19: What Nonprofits Need to Know about Reasonable Accommodation of Employees with Disabilities
Although the number of Covid-19 cases varies throughout the United States, nonprofit leaders are undoubtedly eager to re-open organizations and get back to business. While many continue to allow some staff to work remotely, others choose to or must hav …
Creating a More Robust Volunteer Development Program During the Covid-19 Crisis
What does your volunteer engagement program look like right now? Two case studies—League of Women Voters of Oakland and Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County—explored in this article show us that a successful volunteer program blen …
Ask Rita: We Can Require Employees to Receive the Covid-19 Vaccine—But Should We?
Dear Rita, Our nonprofit has several employees who provide a variety of direct services personally to our clients, in our offices as well as other locations. We have taken great measures since the pandemic struck to protect both our clients and our emp …
New York Nonprofit Employees Get Additional Paid Sick and Safe Leave Rights, Part 2
New York State’s Paid Sick/Safe Leave Law (“NYSPSSL”) took effect on September 30, 2020. NYSPSSL, which amends New York State Labor Law (Section 196-b), requires all employers in New York State (nonprofit and for-profit organizations, alike)—regardles …
New York Nonprofit Employees Get Additional Paid Sick and Safe Leave Rights, Part 1
New York State’s Paid Sick/Safe Leave Law (“NYSPSSL”) took effect on September 30, 2020. NYSPSSL, which amends New York State Labor Law (Section 196-b), requires all employers in New York State (nonprofit and for-profit organizations, alike)—regardles …
How to Use Asset-Framing to Strengthen Nonprofit Work
In The Antidote, a new documentary created in response to growing divisions of our times, award-winning filmmakers John Hoffman and Kahane Cooperman tell the stories of nine ordinary people using “kindness, decency, and the power of community” to find …
How Partnerships Help Nonprofits Stand Out in the Race for Funding
One strategy that charitable organizations can adopt in the face of rising competition for donations is placing a greater emphasis on innovation through partnerships. Partnerships are an opportunity to step up, tune out the noise, rethink funding prior …
Ask Rita: Can Our Paid Employees Also Do Volunteer Work for Us?
Dear Rita: We operate a nonprofit housing clinic for homeless persons. The pandemic, along with the holidays, has inspired some of our employees to inquire about doing extra work for us as volunteers. We don’t normally use volunteers. However, we appre …
How to Build a Compassionate Workplace
If your diverse workforce does not understand or care for one another, you do not have inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the workforce are a practice. You can have a very diverse workforce, but if your workforce does not underst …
