Startups and emerging grassroots nonprofits often finance their organization using personal funds. If they aren’t coming out of their own personal finances, nonprofits heavily rely on small donations to support their missions and programs. While small donations […]
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is essential to the philanthropic landscape. It serves as an instrument companies use to foster strategies that make social change. CSR receives its legs based on
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In my experience, working with youth programs and understanding what programmatic features work and don’t work is critical to your organization’s success. The only surefire way to accomplish it is
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Fundraising doesn’t happen by chance, it should always be intentional—Joe N. Toliver, MBA A key function in the fund development cycle is prospecting. To prospect in fundraising means organizations must
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There are almost two million nonprofits registered in the United States. The nonprofit world has plenty of competition and the growth is expected to continue. As an executive consultant with
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In the last few years operations for many nonprofit organizations has been a rollercoaster ride of setbacks, challenges, and losses. Even the way we exist in our physical environments has
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In my experience, I’ve found one of the most important elements to success for nonprofits is the ability to create brand awareness around program and services. Brand awareness focusses on how familiar others outside of your organization are with your agencies work.
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The term evaluation is described as the systematic investigation of an effort’s merit, worth, or significance. Program evaluation is an essential organizational practice that provides a way to assess specific
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The development of a program logic model plays a key role in evaluating the effectiveness of your program design and delivery. It represents how you plan to do good. The
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During my time as a senior executive for a national affiliated nonprofit organization, one of my many duties included working with our board. It was something that I didn’t enjoy
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Early in my nonprofit career, a colleague suggested looking into mentorship. I didn’t think much of it, other than it could be a vehicle to expand my professional network. Even
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“A grassroots nonprofit is an organization that is funded mostly by individual donors and small gifts from corporate sponsors” [i] I have always believed grassroots nonprofits are important to the
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