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Funding Innovation: Top Tips
How can you fund innovation when your nonprofit continues to struggle to keep the lights on? Here are some ideas.
Against the Current: Regina Anderson
Interview with Regina Anderson of Food Recovery Network. Challenging students to provide healthy meals and fresh ideas to their communities.
The Data Is In: Nonprofits Are Getting More Operational Support
A compelling case for how nonprofits can build organizational capacity and infrastructure to ensure longevity by getting funding for those investments for their nonprofit.
Role of the Nonprofit CFO in Executive Management: The CFO-ED Relationship
The efforts you make to meet the ED’s needs and assert your needs will pay off for both the ED, the CFO and the community.
Nonprofit Mergers & Collaboration
Best Thing Ever? Or the Swan Song of a Dream? See how one nonprofit merged with another and learn concrete steps nonprofit EDs and boards can use in their decision-making process.
Want Equity? Then It’s Time to Break the Rules!
Do not buy into the idea that things will never change. The work is too important, the consequences too severe, for us to let fear stop us.
Nonprofit Leaders Answer: What Are the Most Critical Areas for Improvement to Achieve Your Mission?
Nonprofit leaders share what they believe are the most critical areas for improvement with the Blue Avocado community.
A Guide for Private Foundations: Tax Exemption and 990-PF Filing Requirements
What you need to know to meet your foundation’s tax requirements and the 990-PF.
Beyond the Hype: Why ESG Frameworks Miss the Mark for Small Nonprofits
When we take a closer look at what Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks actually entail, it is often not worth the time and resources for most small nonprofits to go through such a process.
New 990 Software Release on July 20: Is It Enough?
The 990 Online software issue and a modest investment that would ease the implementation burden for nonprofits nationwide
Nonprofits and Copyrights: What You Need to Know
Copyright attorney Kate Spelman shares how your nonprofit can protect its original material and ensure you’re not improperly using someone else’s material.
Ask Rita: The HR of Nonprofit Romance
Many sample handbooks have policies which ban employees from dating with co-workers. Is it legally required to prohibit office relationships?
Firing Someone for Slamming a Nonprofit Employer on Social Media
Can nonprofit employees get fired for posting negative comments about their employer on their private social media accounts?
New Sitcom: Nonprofit Life
Vu Le proposes a new tv show called ED featuring a group of Executive Directors of several nonprofits located in Seattle.
Don’t Call it a Crisis Plan: How Nonprofits Can Proactively Plan for Turbulent Times
You actually have more time than you think to get your nonprofit’s messaging right in a crisis. It’s better to take a little extra time than to stick your foot in your mouth and end up in a worse place than you started.
Matrix Map Part Two: The Strategic Imperatives
Beyond helping nonprofit leaders understand the business model, the Matrix Map can help you strengthen it.
Managing Your Nonprofit’s Rating
Advice to nonprofits on managing their ratings, and commentary on the impact of the raters as a whole.
The Sustainability Question: Why Is It So Annoying?
The sustainability question at nonprofits: How will you sustain this program or project when funding from the So-and-So Foundation runs out?
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.
Fundraising in Nonprofits of Color
Conventional fundraising advice is far more doable for the mainstream program than the one based in a community of color.