Community and Culture
Strengthen your nonprofit’s impact through community engagement and a positive organizational culture.
Discover strategies to foster inclusive communities, empower diverse voices, and build a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
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
Why nonprofits, particularly those supporting marginalized communities, must become active players in the landscape of advocacy.
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!)
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. Reframing self-care as self-defense can help us to prioritize our people and protect our organizations.
How to Improve Nonprofit Culture Through Mission and Values Realignment
We hire new staff, we hold team-building events, we might even bring in a consultant to determine the causes. But there is one area that is often overlooked when trying to fix problems: the culture of the organization and its connection to mission and values.
Role of the Nonprofit CFO in Executive Management: The Watchdog Responsibility
The board expects the Executive Director (ED) and CFO to work in partnership to further the mission, but most boards also expect the CFO to perform a “watchdog” function. If the ED is the engine of the bus, the CFO is the insurance, the maintenance, and yes, sometimes the brakes.
Why Social Movements Require Entrepreneurial Values
While more and more in our sector push for real systems change, here are three practices that could advance nonprofit justice work.