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The Fresh, New Approach For How Governmental Leaders Achieve Unparalleled Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. Make conversations transparent. Make boundaries flexible. Forge unity form diversity.

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5 Common Questions About Calculating Your Nonprofit’s Indirect Cost Rates

sgEngage

Nonprofit organizations are beginning to use indirect costs more frequently in their budgeting processes, whether or not they are pursuing government grants. Indirect costs are the costs that cannot be associated with one program or service within an organization (i.e., operating costs). the agency that provides it with the most funds).

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. As a team, we discussed opportunity areas that emerged from our early conversations with the Community Fellows. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources. We’re kick-starting this initiative and conversation on June 20 in Washington, D.C., Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. By Ben Duda. Chris Christie.

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Research Friday: The Real Impact of Collective Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

So you have a variety of nonprofits, government, and philanthropic organizations working together — they are doing their own things, but it’s mutually reinforcing that common agenda, it is tying those things together. So, by focusing collectively around the chronically homeless we’ve made some wonderful strides.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers.

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Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models

BoardAssist

For example, we might say that “The organization’s business model is heavily reliant on government contracts” or “The organization’s business model includes facility-management expenses to generate rental income to subsidize program delivery.”. Both need subsidy, but different amounts and types.

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