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Is Your Nonprofit’s Mission Obsolete — Or Just Ready for a New Direction?
Measuring the dual bottom lines of sustainability and impact can help you determine if the time has come for your nonprofit to conclude your mission — or pivot to a new one.
Charting a New Course for Youth Engagement
A blueprint for how using strategic inquiry can help your nonprofit better understand your community’s needs and provide key insights with the potential to help you innovate and better serve those who count on you.
Grant Management Series: Involving Your CFO throughout the Grant Application Process
Learn how your CFO can contribute to a successful grant application — and the administrative processes that follow.
Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees
An inclusive and engaged advisory committee has the potential to increase the quality, reach, and overall impact of your nonprofit’s work on a consistent basis.
Ask the Blue Avocado Community Current Survey Question
Answer the question below to share your knowledge with the wider nonprofit community. Your answer may be featured in an upcoming article, with a link back to your nonprofit’s website. What area of your nonprofit has benefited the most from having a specialist on your team?
The One Tool/Strategy Nonprofits Wish They Implemented Sooner
Nonprofit leaders and Blue Avocado readers answer: “What is one tool or strategy you wish your nonprofit had implemented sooner?”
The Critical Role of Cultural Responsiveness in Today’s Nonprofits
While culturally responsive leadership has usually been centered in education, its practices have value to the nonprofit sector as well.
Drive Your Nonprofit’s Mission by Investing in Your People
Nonprofits must advance their mission by valuing their employees’ worth by providing benefits and fair compensation for nonprofit employees.
Obama: the Nonprofit Sector’s Favorite Son?
Barack Obama began his career as an organizer and antipoverty advocate for a nonprofit. Michelle is a former nonprofit executive director.
Too Many Nonprofits? Yes! Clueless in Seattle
Elizabeth Heath shares her thinking about the impact of the economic challenges of today on the nonprofit sector.
An Agreed-Upon-Procedures (AUP) Success Story
CPA Dennis Walsh discusses how using an Agreed-Upon-Procedures Engagement can done at much lower cost than audits to benefit nonprofits.
Ask Rita: Criminal Records Checks for Prospective Staff and Volunteers
Ask Rita explores how nonprofits should do criminal record checks on prospective employees, volunteers, and board members.
In Search of Unicorns: Finding & Hiring Grantwriters, Part 1
Almost everyone in community nonprofits thinks it would be great to have a grantwriter. It’s rare to find and work with this rare creature. Why?
Word on the Street from the Council on Foundations Conference
A long-time grant seeker and nonprofit staff person offers his impressions of a Council on Foundations conference.
In Search of Unicorns: Finding & Hiring Outside Grantwriters Part 2
How to find grantwriters, select them, how much to pay them and what kinds of payment arrangements to choose.
Gas Rates, Volunteers, and Justice
Many people don’t realize that on their personal tax returns volunteers can deduct mileage expenses incurred as part of volunteering.
Nonprofit Retirement Part 2: How and Where to Save
Exploring different ways nonprofit employees can plan and save for retirement — and which ways are better suited than others.
Good Management vs. Good Leadership
In this economic climate, the old adage is even more relevant: Management is doing things right, while leadership is doing the right things.
Model Document Retention Policy for Nonprofits
A model document retention policy designed to help nonprofits adapt to changing laws around statutes of limitation.
Nonprofit Layoffs and Furloughs: Do Them Right
Advice for nonprofit HR departments that need to correctly perform layoffs, furloughs, and temporary shutdowns.