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Moving Beyond Performance: Making DEI Actionable
If you want to make your organization a healthy space for all and overcome biases and prejudices, you have to do the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work. It’s that simple.
Can You Hear Us Now? Using Feedback to Create Community-Centered Services
Getting feedback from those that you serve — and not assuming you know what they need — can help your nonprofit serve your community.
Advocacy Amplified: How Nonprofits Can Garner State Legislative Support for Their Causes
How nonprofits can overcome the complex legislative landscape to effectively lobby and pass laws that serve their communities.
We May Be a Motley Crew, But We’ll Adapt to You: 8 Tenets of Holistic Community Engagement for Nonprofits
A tale of transformation and innovative thinking from Motley Zoo Animal Rescue, which shares the lessons they’ve learned and how they overcame obstacles to create a sustainable, community-focused animal rescue system.
Join the Movement: Activating Nonprofits for Lasting Change
Politics – it’s the invisible hand guiding every aspect of our lives. From the newly built homes in our neighborhoods to the quality of our tap water, the influence of politics is ever-present. This is why nonprofits, particularly those supporting marginalized communities, must become active players in the landscape of advocacy. This is the call to action embraced by the author, to stand up and leverage our platform for change.
How Nonprofits Can Change Unfair Laws
Discover how small nonprofits can take on unfair laws and policies that hinder their ability to serve their communities and come out victorious with the help of coalitions.
Why Nonprofit Organizations Need Chief Diversity Officers
The Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) at the Urban Institute explains why it is important to re-confirm and re-establish the need to keep making progress on the important work of equity and inclusion in nonprofit organizations to affect real change.
Turning NIMBY into YIMBY! (YES in my Backyard!)
Organizations of all types, and especially those that provide direct social services, are frequently met with a lack of community support and even downright opposition. To counteract NIMBY attitudes, a two-step framework is presented for proactive community engagement that will build local support.
Nonprofits Have Been Right All Along: Community Benefit Models Can Solve Our Toughest Environmental Challenges
Nonprofits have been leaders in building sustainability for generations. Nonprofits can be the catalysts for the systemic change in consciousness we so desperately need by advocating for a community-benefit approach in our economic system.
The Importance of Self-Care as Self-Defense to Nonprofits
Nonprofit organizations are givers: We recruit like-minded staff and volunteers who give and give until they are spent. All too often burnout leads to poor performance and high staff turnover. However, reframing self-care as self-defense can help us to …
