Fri.Mar 30, 2018

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Nonprofit Budgeting: Making Money Go Further

NonProfit Hub

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. Here’s the biggest truth bomb that nobody is exclusively talking about when it comes to nonprofit finances: there’s no way for us to tell you exactly how your nonprofit’s budget should be spent. It would be easy to say “spend X amount of dollars on marketing, funnel X amount into your staff salaries, etc.

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Next Time, Answer a Different Question

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It can be hard for nonprofits to land on language that describes what they do. Because so many organizations do so much great stuff. And when you’re close to the work, it’s tough to “read the label from inside the jar” and just name it. But really, it’s not about what you do. It’s about what what you do does. Think about it this way. Not to put too fine a point on it, but a lot of (very talented, capable, totally world-changing) nonprofit pros spend much of their day taking meetings and sending

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Book Review: Sharing Cities – Activating the Urban Commons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons is a collection of 137 case studies and policies in 11 categories how self-organized, democratic, and people-powered policies and initiatives can help solve some of the most thorny problems we face around the world in urban areas. The problems include inequality, climate change and fiscal challenges. The book’s case studies offer us hope and inspiration for urban dwellers – that if we put people at the center – not markets, technolog