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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

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If not on course, the reports lend guidance to changing plans as necessary. Are changes necessary to accommodate changes? Together with your Board, develop transparent strategies for focusing on agreed upon financial metrics, based on well defined expectations that reflect your organization’s unique needs.

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How Can Member-Based Nonprofits Use Lean Innovation to Remain Relevant?

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Putnam reflects on his previous article “Bowling Alone: America Social Capitalism”. Putnam digs into the changes in our culture in the 1970’s and 80’s and what may have occurred to create such a change in how we interact with each other in the social and civic arenas. They are falling behind in the race for relevance.

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

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But to truly achieve its nonprofit mission, board leadership must be as diverse as the organization’s ever-changing community and clientele – not only in relation to demographics of today but also of tomorrow. He grew up in Flagstaff, lived many years in Tucson and has lived in the Valley since 2005.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural." Here are three of my favorites.

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Philanthropy needs to change, but what can be done in fundraising for equity now?

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Fundraising practices reflect the divisive, destabilizing and limiting function of today’s philanthropy, which is often centered on the needs and wants of white donors. Yet, while this fundamental system change in philanthropy takes place, what can fundraisers do now to fundraise from an equity lens to encourage this change?

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