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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.
Robin Erickson, Director of Finance and Administration for an environmental nonprofit, shares her organization’s approach to telecommuting.
Take these guidelines into consideration when adopting alternative work arrangements for your staff.
Rockefeller Foundation and NY Times announced as the “winners” of the first-year Just Awards for dubious contributions to nonprofit sector.
Developing a social media policy for your nonprofit organization can be difficult. These guidelines can help.
Regulating what nonprofit employees say and do on social media is a slippery slope. Here’s some guidance to help nonprofits.
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Executive Director of the Queens Council on the Arts in Jamaica, New York tells what she’s learned from knitting.
All-Volunteer Organizations (AVO) are some of the most important nonprofit organizations around; here are some relevant articles for AVOs.
Eight strategic errors nonprofit organizations often make that stand in the way of “smart growth” in their membership numbers.
Rick Cohen spotlights attacks by financially starved local and state governments to squeeze extra nickels and dimes from nonprofits.
Like a mission statement, a business model statement acts as a touchstone: A reminder and guide for the organization’s focus and strategies.
Despite the importance of the nonprofit board, there’s strikingly little clarity about who is responsible for its performance.
There are three levels of exchange in the grantor-grantee relationship. Explore one of the least discussed: The one-to-one interaction.
Most of the time, nonprofit boards work through consensus. But what if you think a serious mistake is being made?
Brenda Crawford, executive director of Mental Health Consumer Concerns, shares strategies that move people to social change.
Here is a wonderful, succinct guide that provides help for the 600,000 + treasurers of all-volunteer organizations (AVOs).
Copyright attorney Kate Spelman shares how your nonprofit can protect its original material and ensure you’re not improperly using someone else’s material.
The research librarians at IssueLab compare love and nonprofit research, finding and highlighting unusual research reports.
Can an employer terminate an employee who exceeds the maximum medical leave?
For your future use and reference, Blue Avocado shares some common jargon often found across the nonprofit sector.
Segregation of duties, checks & balances, can be difficult to implement in small organizations. Here are five important, do-able controls.
Rick Cohen delves into the less-heard concerns and questions about Teach for America, and its effect on the education sector.
The Just Awards will show the most irrational, irresponsible, and irrelevant organizational behaviors that hinder social service and change.
It’s the call no board member wants or expects to get: The organization’s executive director is being investigated for embezzlement.
Jonathan Spack dives into fallacies that the nonprofit sector has internalized, which can contribute both to poor management and self-esteem.