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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.
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.
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.
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.
Part 3 in Blue Avocado’s series on diversity offers specific, practical tips for recruiting people “unlike ourselves” for nonprofit boards.
Rick Cohen explores three large and distinct ways that the nonprofit sector is involved with the health care reform debates.
Explore how diversity is applied the nonprofit sector as a whole — speaking to foundations, consultants, capacity builders, and observers.
This article — the first of three in a series — provides a fresh and practical focus on nonprofit board diversity.
Nonprofits have a long history of innovation and heroism in health care and in disasters; be sure to manage the flu and its implications well.
Rick Cohen mined metric tons of data to bring some newly published, meaningful facts about the nonprofit sector that we should be aware of.
Attorney Gene Takagi and Emily Nicole Chan discuss whether nonprofit boards can vote by both mail and email.
Steven Young Lee shares how his past experiences provided the right mix of skills to launch him on the path of nonprofit work.