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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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Provide Education Financial development is an excellent opportunity to promote your organization’s culture of learning. Be creative and include a variety of options, such as: Providing financial education promotes a culture of learning. Developing a consistent format that allows for easy comparison across months and years.

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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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This walkthrough isn’t just a cautionary tale—it’s a roadmap to ensuring your financial narrative remains clear, accurate, and reflective of your nonprofit’s integrity and mission. Financial statements must reflect the true nature of resources available. Let’s dive in! 5 Mistakes to Avoid 1.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

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For a more “apples to apples” funding comparison, we also examined foundation funding to higher education institutions with similar attributes to HBCUs along five key dimensions: size, geographic region, institution type, locale, and specialization. By comparison, funding to HBCUs averaged $61 million from 2015 through 2019.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. The New Social Economy. This session was a high level view of what is happening in the ecosystem in which I do my work.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The scan shows a comparison of the brain after sitting vs walking for 20 minutes. There is more red in the walking scan which shows more connections in the brain and more ability to concentrate and that is good for learning. I might have them sit and discuss a small group exercise, but the results are on the wall for a standing debrief.

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Self-care for Nonprofits

Media Cause

Much of what we focus on in Retrospectives tends to be about outcomes or processes, which are completely valid things to reflect on. Comparison? We can often learn a lot about our effectiveness and team dynamics this way, and gather important qualitative data to inform our next project. What was our motivation? Were we sparked by fear?

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's not easy to do because it requires balancing action with reflection. On an organizational level, incorporating this approach may be easy or hard depending your organization's culture. Creating a Culture of Giving in Your Network This is my 7th personal fundraising campaign. This is reiterative learning.