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In the Swirling Dust of Change, Life Still Goes On for an ED
It just makes sense that the founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling would tell his own story in a remarkably compelling way. Here’s Joe Lambert with a thoughtful First Person Nonprofit account of how organizational problems can bring out …
A Gay Activist is Conflicted about the Marriage Equality Campaign
What if you got a chance to chat over coffee with a deeply experienced, witty, and smart gay leader about the movement for marriage equality? He might say something you haven’t seen elsewhere about the campaign. Listen in on a conversation with M …
Collective Impact: Resistance is Futile
We're pleased to announce that Vu Le — who wrote last issue's hilarious and popular article about foundation site visits — has joined Blue Avocado as a regular humor columnist. By day: executive director of the Vietnamese Friendship Associati …
Citizens United Unfair to One Million Corporations
Jack Shakely, former president of the California Community Foundation, takes a different tack (with a little wisecracking) on what to do about the Citizens United decision allowing for-profit corporations to spend unlimited funds on electoral cam …
Stuck Between a Financial Crisis Wrought by the Founder and a Hard Place
A deputy director describes the crisis that befell her organization as the founding executive director left, how that organization almost closed down, and what she’s learned from it for her new job as an executive director in another state and an …
How To Use Text Messaging for Nonprofit Outreach
There are more people with cell phones than people who use Twitter . . . so then, why is there so much more nonprofit talk about Twitter than about reaching constituents and donors through their cell phones?We talked with a non-neutral Doug Plank of Mo …
Vanguard Foundation Update: With Leader Pleading Guilty, “Truth and Reconciliation”?
The Vanguard Public Foundation was a high-profile, influential, progressive institution in San Francisco: the original “rich kids” foundation making grants to radical grassroots organizations and involving community members in grantmaking. As we …
Nonprofit Staff Don’t Vote in Elections? False!
“Nonprofit staff don’t vote.” When the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits (SVCN) heard this from a speaker, they decided to test it among their members. Here’s what they found. In a survey of 560 staff at health and human service nonprofit …
Only Bad Restaurants Go to Scale
We in nonprofits are good at taking on myths and sacred cows. But perhaps the least examined of these myths is the one about going to scale.
Social Media for Nonprofits: 6 Do’s and Don’ts
Sick of people telling you a hundred things your nonprofit should be doing with social media? Kaitlyn Trigger provides some dos and don’ts.
