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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.
Should board members have contact with staff independent of the executive director? Opinion is sharply divided.
Some easy and important ways for board members to help a new executive get started quickly and on the right foot.
A board member shares a story about the difficult process of firing a nonprofit founder when money just wasn’t coming in.
A drug-free workplace policy with sample language to consider including in your nonprofit’s employee handbook.
What to do about an employee that appears to be under the influence, but isn’t drinking on the job and it doesn’t seem to affect performance?
Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change channels the Force to call nonprofits to action, drawing parallels to Star Wars.
Rethinking what defines art and how the less mainstream types can be protected and encouraged.
Ten of the most common myths about nonprofit boards, and the reality of the situation for each item.
Outsourced accounting — having the accounting done by an outside person or firm — isn’t new, but it is getting a second look as nonprofits search for ways to cut office costs.
7×7 board briefings are when each board member makes a 7 minute presentation, followed by 7 minutes of questions, answers & responses.
A nonprofit founder provides a first-person account of what it’s like to be fired from her organization — by a board that she had put together.
How to remove a board member that consistently disrupts meetings or is otherwise destructive and demoralizing.
All our organizations stand on the shoulders of movements. Are you strengthening the movements that provide the nutrients for your org?
When times are tough, funders start to think that mergers are a good idea for nonprofits. And sometimes nonprofits themselves agree.
Dozens of nonprofits contemplate many aspects of your beautiful turkey long before it lands on your table for Thanksgiving.
If you are a part of a nonprofit organization, consider directors and officers (D&O) coverage as a “must have.”
Discussing restrictions on nonprofit 501c3 organizations that prohibit them from supporting or opposing candidates running for office.
Three instant ways to improve meetings simply by what you put on the piece of paper titled “Board Agenda:”
Where are the best nonprofit job sites, both to post and look for nonprofit jobs? A review and rating of 31 sites across several criteria.
Individuals can be personally liable for unpaid wages and other remedies under the FLSA and possibly also under state law.
Analyze salaries by charting salary ranges, adding benchmark salaries, and two ways to review individual salaries.
A detailed method for your nonprofit’s nominating committee to recruit board members.
Is it worth going all-in on casino philanthropy? Only if you know when to lay the odds and when to take the odds.
By staking too much on strategic planning, nonprofits often neglect other tools for making decisions, moving organizations, or learning.