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The Truth, Even When Unpleasant, Can Always Be Explained: Nonprofit Pointers for Conduct in Court
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.
From Startup to Success: Guiding Nonprofits with Six Core Principles of Improvement
Six core principles, drawn from STEM education, can help new nonprofits assemble a diverse team, raise funds successfully, and learn to use the gathered resources for strategic growth.
Recruiting for Board Diversity: Part 3 in Diversity Series
Part 3 in Blue Avocado’s series on diversity offers specific, practical tips for recruiting people “unlike ourselves” for nonprofit boards.
In-Kind Fundraising: A Great Way to Expand Your Budget
In-kind solicitation enables you to supplement your budget in meaningful ways, create stronger, lasting mutual relationships, and more.
How to Cure Founder’s Syndrome
Is Founder’s Syndrome stifling the innovation and change in your nonprofit? Explore what it is and how to change it.
Against the Current: Matt Jorgensen
Interview with social entrepreneur Matt Jorgensen. How to unlock the power of small, home-based entrepreneurs and their kitchens.
Using Philanthropy to Address Racial Harm and Inequity
Learn how the United Way of Greater Los Angeles (UWGLA) is using racial justice to inform their grantmaking efforts, and how other philanthropic organizations can help work to undo the legacies of harm inflicted upon communities of color.
7 Key Factors for Building Peer-to-Peer Fundraising at Your Small Nonprofit
For small nonprofits it’s difficult to know where to start with fundraising for target programs. The problem is compounded when your nonprofit is located in a disadvantaged community. If you find yourself in this situation, peer-to-peer fundraising, centered on grassroots recruiting, could be the route to achieve your objectives in a well-defined timeframe.
Treasurers of All-Volunteer Organizations: Eight Key Responsibilities
Here is a wonderful, succinct guide that provides help for the 600,000 + treasurers of all-volunteer organizations (AVOs).
Alleviate Accounting Systems & Staff Training Chokepoints to Power Nonprofit Missions: Part 1
A case on how one Oregon nonprofit did it. Part 1 of 2.
When Does Interim Nonprofit Leadership Make Sense?
With proper planning, attention, and openness to change, an interim ED can overcome challenges that can derail a nonprofit’s best-laid plans.
Funny and Awkward Nonprofit Board Tales
Nonprofit board members tell their tales of woe or whoa: Funny, sad, silly or gut wrenching stories.
You Got the Grant! Now What?
Nonprofits that do not deliver on the terms of a grant contract are at risk of having to return the funding. Make sure you have a plan.
Ensuring Dogs and Cats Get Equal Scratch in Decision-making
Every organization is made up of cat people and dog people. This framework can help with equity and inclusion in decision-making processes.
Some Say Fundraising Is Just Sales: They’re Wrong!
You need belief in your organization’s ability to make an impact; belief in those your organization serves; and belief in the funder and their desire to create change in partnership with your organization.
Bring Unicorns Back to Our World: The Problem with Outcomes
How many outcomes and logic models can fit on the head of a pin? Humor columnist Vu Le enlightens us.
Passion Meets Professionalism: Transitioning from Volunteer Leaders to Paid Staff
To be successful, transitions from volunteer leaders to paid staff must be planned, deliberate, and done in an orderly fashion.
Can’t Raise Cash Through No VAULT of Your Own?
Seven results-based ideas and three relationship-based ideas on how to build your nonprofit’s capital structure.
Fundraising and Public Speaking
10 concepts that both public speaking and fundraising have in common: Goal setting, knowing your audience, visualizing success, and paying attention to the details.
Ask Rita: Interns Who Lose Their Academic Connections with Your Nonprofit—Are They Really Interns?
Minimize your nonprofit’s risk of violating employment law by being clear about what to do with interns who no longer have academic affiliation.