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A Peek Inside the Millennial Mind
How do you engage millennials in your nonprofit? Here’s a peek into the millennial mind when it comes to social change efforts.
3 Tips & Tools for Better Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Peer-to-peer fundraising is a collaborative effort and can be tricky to navigate. Consider these tips, and you’ll be on the way to successful P2P fundraising.
Donor-Centric Budgeting & Reporting: Top 6 Tips
How can you better engage major donors? Learn how to repackage your budgeting and reporting to speak to what matters to your big supporters.
Embracing Unlikely Allies: Sleeping with the Enemy
Need to negotiate with “enemies” to create change? Use these five negotiation tactics to create win-win and turn enemies into allies.
Developing a Successful Intern Program
Could your nonprofit benefit from hiring interns? Find out the plusses and pitfalls of an intern program & take our Blue Avocado quiz to see if you’re ready.
Moving Beyond Awareness
How do you become part of young American’s moments? Leverage these four ideas to increase awareness of your issue among millennials!
2020 California Employment Law Update #2: Compensation
California’s new rules and regulations impact compensation for employees and contractors — find out how in this 2nd part of our series on CA employment law.
Against the Current: Jose “Che” Ramirez
Activist Jose “Che” Ramirez shares some of his ideas about ending homelessness in America and taking on a system bent on holding folks down.
Investing in Relationships with Donors: 5 Phases of Securing a Major Gift
Here are five phases of a major gift process to help you build relationships with donors.
Assessing Financial Health in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 created significant economic challenges to nonprofits. Explore the unique characteristics of nonprofits’ financial structure.
How to Give Feedback to Your Funders—Especially When It’s Hard
Charities are forced to compete with one another for limited resources, and most will remain reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them.
Ask Rita: How Can We Help Our Employee Care for Family During COVID-19?
Empathy, understanding, and flexibility is necessary to ensure that we help our employees, and in turn, our nonprofits survive and flourish.
How to Build a Compassionate Workplace
Methods for interacting with emotional labor that create a net positive for everyone in your nonprofit organization.
Emotional Labor and Othering: Understanding Terms to Create Equity and Inclusion in the Nonprofit Workplace
Read “How to Build a Compassionate Workplace”? Here’s some background and resources to support branch one of othering: emotional labor.
Creating a More Robust Volunteer Development Program
Now is a good time to review and focus on two key pieces of your volunteer program: training and engaging your volunteers.
Ask Rita: How Do I Navigate Requests for Religious Exemptions from a Requirement to Receive the Covid-19 Vaccine?
It is important to work with that employee to understand the basis for the request and to determine whether it is appropriate.
What a Finance Committee Can Do for Your Board of Directors
Implementing a finance committee of the board of directors was one of the best things our organization ever did. Here’s why.
To Solve the Problem, Focus on the Desired Outcome: A Formula for Nonprofits
Solving challenges is ultimately about creating the outcomes we want. By asking goal-oriented questions, you’ll come up with better outcomes.
The Power of Shared Power: Co-Directing Nonprofits Through Compassion
Learn how Compassionate Atlanta developed trust with one another through shared power in their nonprofit model.
How to Be a Great Supervisor: Insights Learned from 20 Years of Managing
How can supervisors help their employees perform at their most productive level and maintain consistency in their approach to managing their employees?