The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

But how do you breathe life into this metaphor and translate it into real-world sustainability for your organization? Understanding a corporation’s social responsibility goals is key to aligning your proposal with their objectives. Every small step you take in the pursuit of sustainability is a giant leap towards greater impact.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Virtual cooking class. Give your supporters the opportunity to try a new recipe and bring their inner chefs out with a virtual cooking class fundraiser. With a virtual TED Talk series, you can foster a spirit of lifelong learning in your students and provide them with an opportunity to add to their toolbox of life skills and knowledge.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

Attend networking meetings, support local businesses, and propose ways your organization and businesses can work together for mutual benefit. People you hike with or are in your yoga class. It might be helpful to do a “Sphere of Influence” exercise to see who is in your life that you’re overlooking. Foundation spam-a-thon.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

While it took a full-time effort to launch this Web+Second Life platform where visitors can propose and prototype their own exhibits (the best of which we are now building at The Tech), it now takes only about 10 hours of my time weekly to manage the community, coordinate classes, support virtual exhibit designers, and make it happen.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. Stories are powerful and persuasive vehicles that can bring your mission to life in the hearts and minds of all types of supporters. Write more success stories of the great work you’re doing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs. Grant proposals.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Learn how to make your campaigns – and your career – more successful than ever and do it in a world-class venue. General / @southwestfdns. 38th Annual Nonprofit Conference. NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $385.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2005

Most of the participants are between the ages of 17-25, working class and youth of color. What if somebody could have thrown you a life line?" Who is going to throw the young people who aren't in these programs a life line? Throw 'em a life line. And if you think about that and you add to it what they are going through.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Years ago, I read “Moby Dick” as part of a high school English class. Unfortunately, too many fundraisers and board members are also in search of their own version of Moby Dick — the single donor who is going to fund the programs, provide seed money for a new vision, or even bail out a nonprofit that is barely clinging to life.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But what if you’re looking for some new foundations or you heard of a foundation you really want to get in touch with and it says, “We do not accept unsolicited proposals”? I wrote this one just a month or two ago about what to do with unsolicited proposals. Do you say, “Oh, forget it then. No, no, no.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Even as these companies rake in massive profits and outperform their more traditional competitors, the life of the platform worker is not getting better. It all begins with working-class solidarity between labor unions and the growing worker cooperative movement.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

But the new ignorance has old class roots. As if bringing to life capitalism’s fever dreams, microwork undermines not only the wage contract, distinct occupations and worker knowledge, but the workforce as unified, antagonistic mass. Data Nightmares. A global ‘servant economy’ beckons, writes Jason E.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

People, when you have a lot of crisis in your life, hearing about an even bigger crisis is just depressing. So, we have been working very hard with the City Council, and with community colleges and local labor unions and others to come up with a proposal that will start in September as an actual program called "The Green Jobs Corps."

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