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“Whatchu gonna do when you get out of jail?” That’s the light intro to “Genius of Love” by the Tom Tom Club. It’s the perfect song to groove to on…
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The chronic underfunding of nonprofits’ administrative and operational costs acts as a brake on their ability to grow and reach more communities and individuals in need. “There is almost systematic…
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When New York Communities for Change helped lead a demonstration of 500 on Monday in Brooklyn to protest George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, the grassroots group’s activism spoke to a…
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It’s a haunting irony that New Yorkers and the nation have crossed the second anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns just as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) has…
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As the second tranche of federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) funding flows to municipalities around the country, new realities are surfacing about cities’ and counties’ readiness to execute on…
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The Encompass Rating System reached an important milestone last month, transitioning out of beta and into its own as an evaluation system of nonprofit organizations. Over the last 18 months developing Encompass,…
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It’s no secret that millions of mission-related hours are lost every year navigating cumbersome grant application processes. To identify the needed top changes, a survey was launched by Laura Solomons,…
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Click here for more.Repeat after me: “It’s Not Your Money.” One more time: “It’s Not Your Money.” If you work in the world of philanthropy, have you ever said that sentence out loud…
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No policy is ever really neutral. All involve value judgments (such as whether a nonprofit’s administrative costs are “legitimate” expenses) and all can and should be evaluated in terms of…
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Principle 1: Fundraising must be grounded in Race, Equity, and Social Justice. The conversations around fundraising must move beyond diversifying donors and tapping into marginalized communities to give, toward sometimes…
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Succession planning in the social sector, or rather the lack of it, is increasingly being discussed in the development sector. In 2017, The Bridgespan Group, in partnership with Omidyar Network surveyed 250 leaders from…
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The nonprofit sector has always been unique, largely because of the social mission at its heart. In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, I saw this philanthropic purpose tested…