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Blue Avocado: What it Takes to Run a Nonprofit
Leann Malone, the Executive Director of Lancaster County First Steps, talks to Blue Avocado about strong business acumen, retaining qualified staff, and keeping the eye on the bottom line. BA: What advice do you have for a young person considering work …
How to Improve Nonprofit Culture Through Mission and Values Realignment
We’ve all seen cultural problems: low morale, burnout, turnover, lackluster results, low client satisfaction, and donor attrition. We hire new staff, we hold team-building events, we might even bring in a consultant to determine the causes. But there i …
Role of the Nonprofit CFO in Executive Management: The Watchdog Responsibility
Standing before the board to report executive fraud or unethical behavior—that’s an image that no CFO likes to contemplate. The board expects the Executive Director (ED) and CFO to work in partnership to further the mission, but most boards also expect …
Ethical Storytelling for Nonprofits
When we embark upon what’s known in the nonprofit world as “donation season,” chances are that your organization thinks about putting together a fundraising video or other media that demonstrates the impact of your work. When I became the in-house Medi …
How to Be a Great Supervisor: Insights Learned from 20 Years of Managing
People are experiencing a level of stress never seen or imagined in the past. We call on employees more than ever to effectively balance their work life with increasing economic, health & safety, family, cultural, and political challenges. How can …
A Discussion of The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership– Live Q&A
Thursday, November 4, 2021, 11 a.m PT, 2 p.m. ET (60 minutes) In response to our society’s deep and systemic inequities, BoardSource has evaluated the current state of nonprofit boards. What needs to change to equip boards to govern social secto …
How to Use Asset-Framing to Strengthen Nonprofit Work
In The Antidote, a new documentary created in response to growing divisions of our times, award-winning filmmakers John Hoffman and Kahane Cooperman tell the stories of nine ordinary people using “kindness, decency, and the power of community” to find …
How to Build a Compassionate Workplace
If your diverse workforce does not understand or care for one another, you do not have inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the workforce are a practice. You can have a very diverse workforce, but if your workforce does not underst …
Emotional Labor and Othering: Understanding Terms to Create Equity and Inclusion in the Nonprofit Workplace
A Background to “How to Build a Compassionate Workplace” You’ve read “How to Build a Compassionate Workplace” and have questions about one branch of othering: emotional labor. This article is intended to provide background and resources to support you. …
Five Examples of Gen Z Innovators Tackling Social Isolation
In the spring of Aditi Merchant’s freshman year at the University of Texas at Austin, the entire country began shutting down. Aditi should have been filling her time with mind-expanding classes, all-night study sessions, fun parties, and summer plans. …
