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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.
Interview with Rudy Espinoza, Executive Director at Inclusive Action for the City (IAC) in Los Angeles.
A step-by-step guide to refocusing the board-executive director relationship to better align with their nonprofit’s greater mission.
Empathy, understanding, and flexibility is necessary to ensure that we help our employees, and in turn, our nonprofits survive and flourish.
Employees are classified as either “exempt” or “nonexempt.” However, many in the workforce instead use the terms “salaried” or “hourly”.
Charities are forced to compete with one another for limited resources, and most will remain reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them.
Employing specific strategies discussed in this article will help you locate government grants and determine whether you qualify for them.
Interview with social entrepreneur Matt Jorgensen. How to unlock the power of small, home-based entrepreneurs and their kitchens.
Interview with Mitch Gruber, social entrepreneur, social justice advocate, and Chief Strategy Officer at Foodlink.
The pandemic has created new complexities. The duty to engage in the interactive process with employees with disabilities has not changed.
Tell stories that honor the dignity of our families and embrace our donors to create a more equitable and just world for all.
While receiving services in the community does not always prevent people from being referred to subminimum wage jobs, it does make it difficult.
Interview with Regina Anderson of Food Recovery Network. Challenging students to provide healthy meals and fresh ideas to their communities.
Employers should update their EEO policies to include sexual orientation and gender identity/expression as protected classes.
When it comes to COVID-19, what is that new normal and exactly how are our colleagues adapting? Nonprofit leaders share their experiences.
How roadmaps can help nonprofits launch new ventures, break free from the status quo, and improve conditions for clients, staff, and donors.
COVID-19 created significant economic challenges to nonprofits. Explore the unique characteristics of nonprofits’ financial structure.
Ask Rita explores how nonprofit leaders can act when dealing with an employee making an offensive post on social media.
Here are five phases of a major gift process to help you build relationships with donors.
Explore the role of social capital and discover key attributes and assets of social capital that nonprofits can use to their advantage.
Interview with Nihal Satyadev of The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s, addressing Alzheimer’s issues through innovation and advocacy.
A nonprofit is sustainable when it has built long-standing relationships with supporters that are fully committed to the mission.
When reimbursing remote employees, check state laws, whether the expenses are reasonable, and maintain good communication and flexibility.
A lie cannot be taken back. Offering a lie in place of the truth will always make things worse, rendering the claim or the case more costly.
Activist Jose “Che” Ramirez shares some of his ideas about ending homelessness in America and taking on a system bent on holding folks down.