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A Primer on Financial Audits for Nonprofits – Live Q&A
Thursday, November 19, 2020 11 a.m. PT, 2 p.m. ET (60 minutes) An annual financial audit is an important and necessary step to discovering any potential credibility and compliance issues in your nonprofit organization. But an upcoming audit can also in …
Best Tactics for Finding Government Grants Suitable for Your Nonprofit
Organizations and nonprofits spend a majority of their grant development operations focusing on private rather than government funders. This is for good reason, as government grants, especially federal grants, are extremely competitive and rather compl …
Letter from the Editor
Welcome to the last quarter of 2020. As holidays approach, so does fundraising season. The pandemic has only heightened the imperative of honest communication with donors. “How to Give Feedback to Your Funders—Especially When It’s Hard” by Eleni Refu a …
Against the Current: Matt Jorgensen
When most people think of solving a growing problem, they often think, “Well, let’s just make what we’re doing now—bigger.” Not Matt. Since he got into social justice work, he’s been reversing the flow by finding ways to unlock the power of small, home …
Against the Current: Mitch Gruber
I’ve long argued that nonprofits should be more engaged in politics, so when any colleague runs for office, I usually spread the word. One such colleague is Mitch Gruber, who also happens to be one of my favorite social entrepreneurs and fierce social …
Ask Rita: How Does the Americans with Disabilities Act Impact Our Efforts to Keep Employees Safe During the Covid-19 Pandemic?
Dear Rita: We operate a nonprofit social services agency. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have taken what we believe to be very aggressive steps to protect our nonprofit’s clients and employees. These efforts include taking the body temperatur …
Letter from the Editor
The September 2020 issue of Blue Avocado features an article by Dani Robbins that critically examines challenges nonprofits face in staying true to their mission during the fundraising process. Despite the global pandemic this year, there’s a lot to co …
Are Your Nonprofit Organization’s Stories Dishonoring the Families You Serve?
We have a problem in this country with the idea of a class system. Please indulge me the time to paint a picture of the backdrop against which many of us work but don’t often acknowledge. I will then use that backdrop to illustrate the challenge of dis …
Hiring People with Disabilities Is Not a Charity: Here’s Why and How to Stop Paying Subminimum Wage
In the age of Covid-19, the workplace is more flexible than employers thought possible. It’s time to apply the same innovations to employees with disabilities. Minimum wage exemptions date from 1938, a time when people with disabilities did not have a …
Against the Current: Regina Anderson
Asking an entire generation of young people (over 80 million strong) to do service as a prerequisite to graduating high school is probably one of the biggest social experiments in history, which is one reason I’ve been fixated on campus-oriented / stud …
