ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2012

He suggests that all social entrepreneurs should balance the following four factors when deciding on a legal structure for their venture: Motivation: how strong is our motivation for a social mission vs. making a profit? Although not yet available in Arizona, several other states are using these legal structures. Sources: 1.

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Candid

MAY 20, 2024

Foundation for Women’s report, Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less , as of 2017, the median foundation grant awarded to “organizations by and for women and girls of color” was $15,000. Women of color comprised 20.3% of the United States population in 2021, an increase from 18.4% According to the Ms. South, just 5.4%

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

When the Supreme Court gutted race-conscious admissions last summer and the American Alliance for Equal Rights followed with a lawsuit against the Fearless Fund, some in the philanthropic sector feared that demographic data had become a potential liability. The more organizations choose to participate, the better the data will be for all.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

However, as the nonprofit landscape continues to evolve, these roles must also adapt to meet the changing needs and challenges faced by organizations today. Structure relationships that are mutually beneficial for all parties and will ultimately benefit the entire organization in the long term.

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Roles Culture Nonprofit Structure 81

VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. A Path to Change. Mapping the Change. Lessons from the Field.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

These donors had various motives for supporting abolition, however it rarely involved creating an equitable society that included Black people nor supported continual policy and societal change. Philanthropic efforts for the Black community haven’t changed much since the abolitionist movement.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

We often talk about the role of philanthropy and the ways in which it must grow and innovate, how it has changed and evolved with the times, reacting to crises, wars, economic downturns, and more. I believe it is fostering the love of people and that pathway to change that is the role and mandate of philanthropic institutions and funders.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

At this sea-change moment, we’re working with organizations to set holistic AI strategies and governance as part of their core organizational strategies, not just digital strategy. We see massive disruption from individual givers to institutional funding streams, partnerships, and foundation grantmaking.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 15, 2024

The UN goals include climate change measures, increased access to quality education and healthcare, gender equality and the eradication of poverty. Among the more prominent: * Women, who because of social structures have historically controlled less wealth, are increasingly influencing family philanthropy.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. As many have observed, participatory funding models have likely existed for centuries in the form of mutual aid or community support. Those at the top decide. In recent years, that model is being challenged.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The American Kidney Fund. The American Kidney Fund uses eye-catching graphic design, but what they do best is centering the donor’s impact. This impact summary page speaks directly to supporters and gives them credit for changing lives instead of the organization alone. Broadway Cares.

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

For example, it may prioritize organizations with leaders who have lived experience in the communities they work with, organizations of a certain size, or those with the potential to sustain long-term change. Some collaboratives fund grantees to work toward a clearly defined, shared goal—and use shared outcome metrics across grantees.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

To meet demand, the foundation launched two rapid response funds for public health and social justice initiatives within a month of each other. The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. But that also presented a challenge.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2024

Students delaying education due to financial concerns—as opposed to those taking structured gap years—are less likely to enroll or graduate later. Can you identify at-risk students who may not be able to enroll without financial support that would come from federal funding? Do not encourage them to skip college for the year.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Once Candid collects data from these sources, we clean, code, structure, and enhance the data to make it more accessible and useful. We also link grants from different funders to the same recipient to visualize the broader funding ecosystem. To calculate dollars donated, pledges for future funds should be excluded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. They have joined forces and along with John Cleveland, have written “ Connecting to Change the World.” Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

From the civil rights leaders and Black Panther Party to the Black social change leaders of today , Black communities have wielded social innovation as a tool to design and determine their own futures, build collective power, and achieve liberation. . Black leaders driving social innovation is not a new phenomenon. .

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Finding the bandwidth and funding to provide professional guidance for staff and volunteers may be a stumbling block. People are fearful of change. However, activities that involve gaining people’s cooperation and changing their behavior require time and effort. Many groups have adopted DEI as a strategic priority.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

With an ever-changing landscape of fundraising, economic conditions, and tactics for expanding mission-related programming, finding time for IRS tax reporting and filing 990 Series returns can be beyond challenging. Fund Accounting Software that Drives Impact Find out how Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT® fits your organization.

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Blue Avocado

JULY 10, 2023

To fight the battle against hunger, nonprofits can advocate for meaningful change in our societal structures. The post Volunteering Alone Will Not Save Us appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. (Early bird registration ends on July 31 and scholarship information is here. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Once your website is designed and structured according to this technique, it becomes easier to update it when those needs change by asking these questions: Which tasks don’t apply anymore?

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

While I am happy to share my perspective, trends are, by nature, always changing and have varying impacts depending on your nonprofit’s function. For example, a growth or decrease in individual giving might be vitally important to your nonprofit but totally irrelevant to others (like those primarily funded by government sources.)

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Achieve

OCTOBER 30, 2017

prove not only millennials’ passionate concern for others, but the unique form of activism they’re engaged in to effect societal change. We already are seeing changes in our country that can be tied to increased cause engagement through combined activism methods. As you’ll see, new data collected for the. 2017 Millennial Impact Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Call this “social change 2.0”. As a consequence, there’s a risk that our field may become disillusioned with “collaboration,” and the pendulum will swing back to funding narrow, siloed programs that may produce adequate outcomes, but which are far from producing real impact at scale.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

If total funds raised by participants are down from the last campaign, you might increase participant engagement by offering tips and examples from your top fundraisers. BONUS TIP: If you identify specific changes you should make, try making just one or two at a time to get an accurate idea of their impact. Your messaging?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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Candid

APRIL 6, 2022

Meme: MEASURE works to use data and education to mobilize communities to fight structural racism and eliminate social disparities. Meme: To disrupt traditional research methodologies, MEASURE has developed the CARE model to help BIPOC-led organizations identify their theory of change and measure their impact.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

To meet demand, the foundation launched two rapid response funds for public health and social justice initiatives within a month of each other. The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. But that also presented a challenge.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Typically, it takes someone seeing a situation that needs to change and doing the work to change it. Based on the conversation with these grantmakers, here are four ways grantmakers can make sure all stages of their funding programs include the voices and perspectives of women. Artwork by Toya Beacham See Women and Girls.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. What if pizza shops were funded like human service nonprofits?

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

That desire doesn’t change. You may resent their lack of vision or courage for change. But it is also worth understanding that, as discussed above, the process of bringing a new nonprofit into being requires a great deal of effort to understand the founders’ (sometimes changing) vision.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here are the crucial things technology for nonprofit finance should be able to help us do: LEVERAGE SMART FUND ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE TO IDENTIFY THE MOST EFFECTIVE REVENUE SOURCES. Is the use of the funding restricted by conditions set by the funder? To what extent are we dependent on a small number of large funding sources?

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 19, 2022

Innovators introduce new ideas, inventions, or discoveries to our ever-changing world. The association decided on Nimble AMS for its innovative ability to handle complex membership structures, continuous upgrades, and excellent customer support. But your association can become innovative and drive superior member value.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The drivers of hunger include conflict, climate collapse, and chronic structural inequality that systematically excludes vulnerable communities from decision-making and benefits some to the detriment of most. Ending hunger requires changing political, economic, and social power structures. Hunger is not inevitable.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

It runs throughout the organization, and grantmakers must account for it in their funding opportunities. Grantmakers need to recognize the importance of funding both the projects and the technology required to support, measure, and grow those projects. Sometimes that requires a pivot, despite the funding parameters.

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