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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.
It’s important to shift attention towards structural racism and come up with viable, long-lasting solutions to systemic racism.
Whether you handle investigations internally or bring in an independent outside investigator depends on several considerations.
Simplifying paid-leave laws. The best way to understand what the new leave laws provide is to take a quick look back into the past.
A case on how one Oregon nonprofit did it. Part 2 of 2.
Succession planning gets a bad rap. But in a pandemic, especially in the early days, an emergency succession plan becomes essential to a nonprofit.
Explore these tips to have a safe and productive first in-person meeting with your board as the pandemic winds down.
Originally enacted as part of the CARES Act in March 2020, and subsequently voted into law last December, the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) may now be claimed by eligible employers — and that includes tax-exempt nonprofit organizations — that previously received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan. Since most eligible employers opted for a PPP
We want to discipline an employee for an unauthorized recording of our conversations. What are our options?
A case on how one Oregon nonprofit did it. Part 1 of 2.
A professional accountant discusses how to make your nonprofit’s accounting more virtual.
A nonprofit talks about how they accomplished a successful strategic planning process with as little pain — and as much gain — as possible.
Nonprofit employers must navigate a multitude of workplace laws and risks, including employees with underlying medical conditions.
Now is a good time to review and focus on two key pieces of your volunteer program: training and engaging your volunteers.
It is important to take into account legal and practical considerations so as to balance community safety with the impact on individuals.
PART 2 of an article explaining more details about the New York State and City paid sick/safe leave laws.
Explore new state laws, in addition to COVID-19 leave, provided under New York State’s Emergency COVID-19 Quarantine Paid Sick Leave.
Instead of defining people by their problems, asset-framing defines people by their aspirations, their gifts, and their contributions.
Partnerships are an opportunity to step up, tune out the noise, rethink funding priorities, and advance the common good.
If you have an employee that also wants to volunteer at your nonprofit, here are some tips to help protect your nonprofit and your employees.
Methods for interacting with emotional labor that create a net positive for everyone in your nonprofit organization.
Read “How to Build a Compassionate Workplace”? Here’s some background and resources to support branch one of othering: emotional labor.
Revenue from contracts with customers (ASU 2014-09) will impact your nonprofit, depending on the nature of your revenue and support.
Unhappy employees sometimes say they are working in a “hostile work environment”. Here’s what that means, and when to investigate it.
How might you pivot your work to help end social isolation and loneliness? Listen to the wisdom of elders and youth.