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Nonprofit Leaders Answer: Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members
Nonprofit leaders answer the question, “What are the key qualities and skills you look for in potential board members?”
Is There An Inequality Tipping Point for Nonprofits?
As the planet faces a climate crisis, inequality emerges as a new threat coming to face the nonprofit sector.
In the Swirling Dust of Change, Life Still Goes On for an ED
Organizational problems can bring out the best in people. Through it all, life goes on. It’s your choice how to embrace everchanging moods.
Sample Tax Deductibility Handout for Auction Participants
Some common questions and sample materials covering income tax and how they may relate to your nonprofit’s auction participants.
Setting Organizational Goals: Does your team know what to do?
In the day-to-day firefighting of the nonprofit world, quantitative goals can lessen the chance for misunderstandings.
Disrupting the Space of Disaster Philanthropy: A View from the Front Lines
Recovering from a disaster is not a quick process. Here’s how philanthropy must help local communities rebuild.
Against the Current: Nihal Satyadev
Interview with Nihal Satyadev of The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s, addressing Alzheimer’s issues through innovation and advocacy.
In the Shadow of the Pandemic, Nonprofits Form Partnerships to Expand the Meaning of Healthcare
Nonprofits in healthcare are expanding services to their beneficiaries through partnerships and collaborations.
7 Things Nonprofit Leaders Can Say to Funders to Effectively Manage Limited Resources
Seven things nonprofit executives can begin saying to set boundaries with funders and say no without consequences.
Measure What You Value: Designing a Values-based Performance Appraisal System
Developing and sustaining a motivated, productive, and highly engaged workforce means your employees must be measured on how they demonstrate the organization’s values.
The Million-Dollar Question: What Could Your Nonprofit Do if Money Weren’t an Issue?
Want to raise more money? Call a time out and take fundraising completely off the table. Then dream — the money will follow!
The Board Builds Its Sense of Self: Body-Building for Nonprofit Boards
Perhaps the single most important attribute of an effective board is also its most intangible: An independent sense of itself.
Getting Real About Real-Time Evaluation
Evaluators explain a type of program evaluation — and how to make it work for your nonprofit.
Should You Be Considering a Nonprofit Merger?
When times are tough, funders start to think that mergers are a good idea for nonprofits. And sometimes nonprofits themselves agree.
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There is plenty of wisdom and knowledge among the leaders and staff of the community-based nonprofits themselves. We just need a place through which to share these valuable nonprofit resources. Blue Avocado is that place. We also believe that nonprofits can only be vibrant, healthy, and effective when they have access to financial resources and […]
The Growth Paradox for Nonprofit Organizations
Often nonprofits can have unchecked appetites for growth, which combine with structural factors that make such growth haphazard.
A Practical Guide to Getting and Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers
A guide to effectively manage volunteers, from recruiting to appreciation. Keep volunteers engaged and your organization thriving.
The Financial Outlook for Nonprofits
Results of a survey of 500 nonprofits on their organization’s financial outlook in 2017.
Nonprofit Job Sites Reviewed and Rated
Where are the best nonprofit job sites, both to post and look for nonprofit jobs? A review and rating of 31 sites across several criteria.