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    Nonprofit Cost Analysis Toolkit

    The Bridgespan Group

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Marta Garcia Abadia, and Johnny Lin provide a cost analysis toolkit to shed light on an often poorly-understood part of the nonprofit sector.  • Are your understandings…

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    Why Are Nonprofit Financials So Hard to Figure Out?

    Nonprofit Quarterly

    Giving Compass’ Take: • F.B. Heron Foundation President Clara Miller discusses the often-arcane financial rules that govern nonprofits, challenging attendees with a true/false test to see how much they really…

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    Key Elements for Nonprofit Financial Oversight

    Independent Sector

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Mareeha Niaz, writing for Independent Sector, examines the process of maintaining strong financial oversight in nonprofit and charitable organizations.  • What are the challenges for nonprofits to sustain…

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    Ways to Facilitate Successful Online Workshops for Organizations

    NPC May 31, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are ten tips for organizations in the social sector to more effectively use their time to be inclusive, ease decision-making, and successfully help create productive…

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    Relevant Philanthropic Efforts As A Business Essential

    Forbes May 31, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Derrick Morton, writing for Forbes discusses the importance of central, relevant philanthropic efforts as successful business initiatives. • What are relevant philanthropic efforts and why are…

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    Developing a Strong Core of Young Leaders

    FeedbackLabs May 30, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • FeedbackLabs describes the efforts of Global Fund for Children, a public foundation that promotes the voices of young leaders. • Why is it vital to develop…

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    Lean Philanthropy and How COVID-19 Is Changing Grantmaking

    Philanthropy Daily May 30, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • At Philanthropy Daily, Martin Morse Wooster examines coronavirus’ impact on lean philanthropy and how it might alter grantmaking in the future. • What is lean philanthropy…

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    Local Nonprofit is Fostering Collaborative Regional Growth

    Smart Cities Dive May 29, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The North Texas Innovation Alliance is helping to address local issues and push projects forward within the community while fostering collaboration.  • How can local donors…

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    Eight Philanthropy Myths Preventing Equitable Grantmaking

    WA Women’s Foundation

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Aviva Stampfer and Aki Shibuya bust eight philanthropy myths that stand in the way of equitable grantmaking.  • Are these myths holding you back? Is it time…

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    How a Single Nonprofit Leader Can Bring About Social Change

    Social Velocity May 29, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Nell Edgington, writing for Social Velocity, discusses five steps that nonprofit leaders can take to bring about social change in the funding ecosystem.  • How can donors…

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    How to Prepare Nonprofits for Reopening

    VolunteerMatch May 28, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are four ways that organizations can follow to ensure they are implementing the best practices to keep everyone safe and protect volunteers.  • How can…

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    Building Capacity for Nonprofits for Sustained Collaboration

    Stanford Social Innovation Review May 27, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • More foundations are starting to create pooled-funding initiatives to build capacity for nonprofit organizations so that collaboration can increase resiliency and nonprofit effectiveness.  • How can individual…

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