Building a Trust-Based Philanthropy to Shift Power Back to Communities
To realize the deep systemic change that America is demanding, philanthropy must reorganize to build and demonstrate a trust-based culture, invest in community leadership capacity-building, and open up decision-making and information-sharing structures. This shift has important implications for nonprofits and community groups, as well as for foundations and donors.
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How Nonprofits Can Truly Advance Change
Stepping into a nonprofit’s potential to create more visionary change in the world will require significant changes in every aspect of work in the nonprofit arena. And because change happens via collective action by real people, perhaps the most important question to ask is this: If it winds up that what must change is us, are we willing to make that change?
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Measuring Is an Act of Power: A Call for Pro-Black Measurement and Evaluation
This article discusses learning, hopes, and opportunities related to how evaluation professionals in the nonprofit sector can interact best with themes of equity, diversity, inclusion, and antiracism (EDIAR) in their evaluation work.
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America’s Nonprofits Get Out the Vote
This publication presents findings from a new survey on the prevalence of nonprofit voter engagement and its intersection with race, leadership, and community served. For instance, seven in 10 voters say they think it is a good idea for nonprofits to offer voter support services, like voter registration, election reminders, and election day transportation. Additionally, nonprofits can effectively reach communities underrepresented at the polls, including low-income, young, and voters of color. Finally, nonprofit voter engagement significantly boosts voter turnout, especially among those otherwise underrepresented in America. The evidence is clear – nonprofit voter engagement is broadly supported, reaches underrepresented communities, and boosts voter turnout to foster a more inclusive democracy.
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How to Qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Avoid the Traps
The US Department of Education recently issued a statement on the federal student loan servicer website, myFedLoan.org, that should be noted by anyone with a federal student loan who works full time for a nonprofit, the government, or other public agency (veterans also qualify). Nonprofit organizations can help their workers by connecting them to this knowledge base.
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Working in Partnership With Opportunity Youth
Leaders of the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions’ Opportunity Youth Forum share lessons from a decade of work achieving better outcomes for young people.
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Five Essentials Of A+ Advocacy for Your Nonprofit Organization
For a nonprofit leader, it is essential to the success and continuation of your organization to promote and support your mission. In this article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council, Christa Day details five essentials for A+ advocacy for a nonprofit.
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5 Actions Nonprofits Can Take to Embrace Disability Rights and Access
This article, written by Catherine Hyde Townsend for Nonprofit Quarterly, lays out five concrete actions organizations of any kind can take to advance disability inclusion and move closer to equity and justice.
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Why Your Nonprofit Needs to Consider Project Management
Why Your Nonprofit Needs to Consider Project Management is an article written by Stephen Jackson and Baily Maples for TechSoup . The article examines project management basics and illustrates some ways that even a little project management can go a long way at a nonprofit.
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The Landscape of Project Management Tools for Nonprofits
The Landscape of Project Management Tools for Nonprofits, a report written for Idealware , looks at the wide range of available software to understand what these systems are capable of, what they cost, and how effective they are for nonprofits. To put those results in context, the report also defines the management techniques that help make projects successful, the specific challenges nonprofits face in project management, and what organizations can do to improve their project management processes.
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