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Navigating the nonprofit world can be challenging. Blue Avocado offers expert guidance on a range of topics — from building strong boards to maximizing your fundraising impact. Explore our latest posts for practical tips, strategies, and solutions to common issues facing nonprofit organizations today.
The causes of burnout at nonprofits . We have unconscious beliefs that are undermining our very health and sanity.
Framing job descriptions properly as related to disabilities will help you recruit a suitable applicant pool, be fair to people with disabilities, and protect your organization from charges of disability discrimination.
Blue Avocado columnist Vu Le inspires us again with his ideas for nonprofit-themed children’s books. We should all be writing some!
Use this sample disclosure form for the amount of a ticket contribution that is deductible for your nonprofit’s federal income tax purposes.
Some common questions and sample materials covering income tax and how they may relate to your nonprofit’s auction participants.
Sample document for an acknowledgement of non-cash donation to a nonprofit organization and/or charity.
A sample silent auction bid sheet — available as an Excel spreadsheet download for your nonprofit to modify.
Charitable auctions trigger a variety of compliance and reporting requirements. Use this sample checklist to help prepare your nonprofit.
Calculating overhead rates and managing expenses are important roles. Board members need to bring an informed perspective to oversight.
Most of us have had moments of despair. Marilyn Neece very generously shares her story with us.
There is an abundance of advice for nonprofit boards and EDs that speaks to the advantages of “partnership” and “open communications.” But sometimes that advice just doesn’t feel like enough.
If your nonprofit’s employee count is anywhere near 50, you’re going to want get familiar with enforcement agency regulations.
No executive director has all gifts, and many are brilliant. But what about the nonprofit CEO who is terrific in some ways but whose strengths are matched with some troubling flaws as well?
Nonprofits employees work a lot and often neglect their health. Humorist Vu Le describes yoga poses designed specifically for nonprofits.
Blue Avocado asked for potential interviewees who had followed a founder or a long-time executive. We didn’t expect 58 people to respond.
Blue Avocado contributor and CPA Dennis Walsh provides a handy compliance guide, and five sample forms to make sure your wording is right.
Planned giving professional Greg Lassonde gives us step-by-step instructions for soliciting bequests and planned gifts.
Too often, the focus on nonprofit executive transitions is about the departing executive. Here’s one such story.
There is a lot of buzz around “impact”, “outcomes” and “evidence-based practices”, but not enough about how nonprofits can achieve them.
Transgender and intersexual matters in HR. Work with your employees to make them feel welcome at work, regardless of gender identity.
Conventional fundraising advice is far more doable for the mainstream program than the one based in a community of color.
Boards and board members don’t get credit for some important work they do without even realizing they are doing it.
Cow board members donate hours at meetings and asking others to give milk debate whether or not they should give milk themselves. Moo.
Bylaws Cheat Sheet: If a copy of the by-laws is handy, it’s tedious to have to look over all the legalese for an answer to a simple question.