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Celebrate National Volunteer Week at your association to show you care!

Nimble AMS

National Volunteer Week is celebrated annually in the United State s , Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand , to recognize the outstanding work of volunteers. To recognize the work of your volunteers, consider hosting a special event to thank your member volunteers. Stay in touch.

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Time To Celebrate: Nov. 15th Is National Philanthropy Day

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While it is celebrated in the United States, it’s also observed in various ways in many other countries. See hashtag #NationalPhilanthropyDay National Philanthropy Day in the United States dates back to the 1980s when it was conceived by Douglas Freeman, a professional fundraiser.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

In the United States, philanthropic collaboratives—entities that either pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits— collectively directed between $2 billion and $3 billion to a variety of grantees in 2021, and our research indicates that figure has grown since then. Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees.

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Good CEO, Bad Call—How to Recover

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Documenting the steps that you will take in a leadership challenge is a good way to begin training yourself to act with intention in a situation filled with extreme emotional distractions. The tricky part, and we know it’s tricky because so many people get it wrong, is that getting it right requires character.

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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

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Here are two of the features that CDP started to incorporate into grantmaking: Tax Status Verify For the United States and Canada-based organizations, the tax status verify tool updates the legal status of each organization. This process reduces the need for an organization to provide further documentation on their tax status.

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A clarion call to invest in historically Black colleges and universities

Candid

Prior to the Civil War, the education of Black Americans was prohibited in most states and discouraged in others, leaving many Black communities without access to the educational resources to build quality lives, much less wealth. Racism, employer bias, and work discrimination are well documented.

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4 Reasons To Warm Up To The Cloud

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It has the power to connect departments of an organization and empower employees to work from anywhere. When you’re working in a cloud like Office 365, spreadsheets update in real time, and the most current version is always there for whoever needs it. Security is comparable to on-site hosting. Implementation, and customization.