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Nonprofits Have Been Right All Along: Community Benefit Models Can Solve Our Toughest Environmental Challenges

Blue Avocado

Article In Brief: The Problem: Nonprofits have long known the value of building community, but our voices have been ignored or devalued. Now we are learning that valuing private profit over community has brought us to the edge of extinction.

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Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How

Neon CRM

Check out the various nonprofit membership models that exist throughout the sector! Determining which model works best for you will then inform how your program will function and what member benefits will look like. Every membership program needs a structure that appeals to its intended audience.

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Beyond Bronze, Silver, and Gold—Grow Success With Purpose

.orgSource

Beyond technology, there are cultural shifts that are making a major impact on the association community. Community building and engagement are new priorities. In my way of thinking, this is the wrong business model. The tiered structure is a trap I’d stay clear of. This is an important dialogue for our community.

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

They sought diverse perspectives in focus groups and made structural changes to address outdated language, power dynamics, and privacy concerns. This partnership meets a community need to apply an intersectional lens to data analysis and enables funders and nonprofits to gain insight into disparities masked by aggregated data.

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Philanthropy must prioritize elevating and including Black voices

Candid

In 2020, the philanthropic sector started conversations about how philanthropy can better support Black-led organizations and the Black community. Organizations hosted “listening” sessions, in which the Black community shared their experiences with leaders in the sector, mostly non-Black people of color and white people.

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January 2022 equity update to the community

NTEN

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. This evaluation process involves all three equity committees, including board, community, and staff. Board moving to a co-chair structure; adding the equity committee chair to the executive committee.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

.orgSource

Isolation taught us the value of the relationships and the technology that sustained our communities. The goals were to talk about the great things that restaurants do in their communities. And, that value was shared throughout their respective communities. Sponsorships are the model that we’re all most familiar with.

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