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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

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Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Experiences like the following make Millennials and GenX, groups that associations are seeking to engage, consider even long-standing organizations with a dose of suspicion. Adding to the impact, multiple disruptive social and cultural events have characterized the formative working years for younger generations.

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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

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Throughout the day, top customers shared their experiences using Salesforce and highlighted the digital transformations their organizations have undergone. . When the pandemic hit, BGCA quickly realized they needed to rethink their entire service delivery model in order to continue making an impact. Customer Spotlights.

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Silent Auction Baskets: 5 Tips to Create Unique Gifts

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If they bring home a high-quality, interesting gift basket, they’ll have a memento of a good experience that will remind them to stay involved with your nonprofit. Combine Physical Items With Experiences Another way to make your baskets more unique is to include a coordinating experience alongside the physical items in each bundle.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

I’ll keep this simple, as many of us have a lot on our minds as we experience the world grappling with a public health crisis. According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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5 Reasons Your Nonprofit Needs an Operating Reserve

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As the saying goes: It’s a tax status, not a business model. Many nonprofit staff members experience burnout as a result of consistent cash flow stress, which often leads to low morale and increased staff turnover. They also position you to seize opportunities that you may not have been able to take advantage of otherwise.

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Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Silicon Valley philanthropy is increasing: Individual giving rose 150 percent between 2008 and 2013, from $1.9 Silicon Valley’s newly wealthy philanthropists and community based organizations lack information about one another, don’t use the same language or models, and don’t move in the same circles, leading to an empathy gap.

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