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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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As a nonprofit leader, you likely want to do your best to ensure that the voices and experiences of the communities you serve are represented in your work. At their core, advisory committees are groups of individuals who are stakeholders in your nonprofit’s work and who want to play a role in ensuring you achieve maximum impact.

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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

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Foundations play a crucial role in supporting nonprofit organizations and driving positive change within communities. By embracing a community leadership role, foundations can amplify their impact and empower grantees to achieve long-term, sustainable success.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

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Community Fund: A Participatory Grantmaking Case Study , by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative   This case study offers a first-hand look at fostering community collaboration in philanthropy. It explains why philanthropy plays a vital role in addressing today’s climate crisis. Do you know of a resource Candid’s Issue Lab is missing?

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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

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Of course, there are auxiliaries that are adaptable, responsive, and truly collaborative. This is precisely why some hospitals retain an auxiliary to run the gift shop, while also maintaining an entirely separate volunteer corps, managed by staff, to fill patient care roles. This is where collaboration is especially crucial.

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How Grantmakers Can Support Nonprofit Infrastructure Needs: A Conversation with Chantal Forster

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It means servers, software, and policies that enable organizations to scale. According to Chantal, “We’re in a place now where philanthropy is thinking about how do we, as funders, collaborate and collectively fund infrastructure, like a shared data platform, like the ability for nonprofits to move to the cloud.”.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

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We need every solution and every solver…What this moment calls for is a mosaic of voices — the full spectrum of ideas and insights for now we can turn things around.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”.

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Are nonprofit volunteer retention strategies vital to a thriving team?

ASU Lodestar Center

Volunteers feeling micro-managed and without a voice. Bottom line, volunteer retention is not about policies and procedures, but more about the leadership’s ability to engage volunteers from the perspective of what they uniquely and individually bring to the organization. Volunteers feeling overloaded. Be organized. Team building.