RESOURCES
Getting Beyond the Buzzword of Inclusion: Local and Global Perspectives
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Sapphira Goradia, Executive Director of the Goradia Foundation, and Courtney Rice, Director of Inclusion and Community Impact at the Robins Foundation It seems that every conference in 2019 has panel discussions focusing on the...
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Shared Services: A Model for Nonprofit Innovation and Collaboration
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By William McAndrews It’s getting tough out there . . . Most every nonprofit leader knows from experience that there is ever increasing pressure on nonprofit organizations to become more effective, efficient and to improve outcomes....
#RelationshipGoals: How to Build a Great Board/Executive Director Partnership
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Cyndee Patterson This is the second of four columns on how to develop a great nonprofit board. To read the first column, click here. One relationship in your nonprofit is more important than any other. It’s between your...
Valuing Your Volunteers
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Rachel Horowitz Volunteers are a huge component of many nonprofits’ daily activities. They are simultaneously the people behind the curtain and the faces of the operation. In fact, the average value of a single volunteer is worth...
Community Action Partnerships Improve Crisis Response Time by Automating Application Processing
Enterprise content management has the ability to automatically move digitized documents throughout an organization, automating the flow of information to rapidly get the right information into the right hands.
Millennials and Philanthropy
Millennials currently make up more than one third of today’s workforce and are increasingly important to the nonprofit sector as current and future volunteers and donors.
Measuring Success AND Impact?
Nonprofits need to be frank with funders and make sure their measures used to show success and impact are already in place so that new funding requiring certain measurements will not create mission drift.
What the Great Artists Can Teach Philanthropy in a World of Disruption and Uncertainty
Artists provide a surprising, yet rich resource, and art-making, as a paradigmatic framework, has practical application that stretches beyond the studio walls.
Social Innovation… Nature’s Way
Turning to nature to advance social innovation: biomimicry can be applied to a range of social challenges including climate change, energy efficiency, and human safety.
Keeping School in the Conversation
Managing a relevant social media channel includes equal doses of content curation, creativity and a unique voice – exposed in a consistent way. Wake County Public School System communicates to their diverse audience through an effective and creative use of social media.
Shining Light on the Benefits of Youth Service
Engagement of youth in service from an early age can be a significant opportunity for the nonprofit sector as a whole.
A Bridge Leading Somewhere
Bridge funding grants—with their varying characteristics and purposes—are an opportunity for funder and grantee to deepen a relationship and work towards a common goal.
Calculating Return on Investment for your talent: How to save your organization thousands of dollars.
Save your organization thousands of dollars by taking the time to calculate the Return on Investment for investing in your talent.
Cause Shopping: The Emergence of Online Auctions
Online auctions can be a way to amplify your organization’s ability to raise money.