BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model? Thanks Alice!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. Fundamentally overhauling a business model can be risky and expensive. This is a challenge for both nonprofits and government officials.

Government 85

Government Research New York Homeless 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . To understand the ethical dilemmas, see these scenarios.

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Homeless Research Global System 163

Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Operations & Leadership Programs Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How 10 min read Read Now 3. Outline Governance and Prioritize Development Whether your association operates with a board of directors, committees, or specific leadership roles, a well-structured governance plan sets the stage for effective decision-making.

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Associations Practice Strategy Leadership 52

Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

It’s not a business model. . Establish initial governing documents and policies. . Retain or consult with a bookkeeper to create accounting records and financial reports. . Retain or consult with an accountant for annual audit and government filings, including the form 990. Develop an evaluation and performance model. .

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

We also use some terms like “fiat” (Government-backed money), “getting rugged” (ripped off by a project), “mooning” (rapidly increasing in value) and others along the way, sorry for the jargon but don’t worry WAGMI (we’re all going to make it). Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures. population. population.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Ultimately, our report highlights widening disparities in our region—and points the way to potential solutions. Bridging the Gaps.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “I This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB).

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Forum One

OCTOBER 26, 2022

At Forum One, we work with a great many nonprofits and government agencies that run their websites on Drupal. Each content migration method comes with pros and cons, and provides more or less opportunity to make changes to your site’s structure. Here are your three main options: A. Upgrade automatically with Migrate suite.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2020

Show leadership how better reporting and business intelligence can give them more clarity into revenue, including reporting on which programs helped drive revenue and which aren’t yielding results. A solid plan contains: the project structure. a TCO modeled over three to five years. Clarify the risks of doing nothing.

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Business Software Build ROI 78

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. In July 2015, two of the earliest SIBs in the US reported markedly different results from which a nonprofit manager can learn.

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Program Management South Africa Evaluation 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The report was primarily informed by two sources: Financial data showing trends from the field. Angela Francis , Senior Associate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “nonprofit leaders must focus more attention on innovation, measuring the impact of their efforts, and creating funding structures that encourage risk taking, according to a report from Independent Sector." Overhaul the governance model and committee operations.

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2021

At Forum One, we work with a great many nonprofits and government agencies that run their websites on Drupal. Each content migration method comes with pros and cons and provides more or less an opportunity to make changes to your site’s structure. Here are your three main options: A. Upgrade automatically with Migrate suite.

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Drupal Module Model Method 56

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. But a structural problem remains: philanthropy does not typically have available capital for scaling.

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Research Minnesota San Francisco Work 84

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The National Association for College Admission Counseling reported in 2015 that 36% of first-time freshmen apply to seven or more colleges. There are a few accepted models for content strategy. Structure and Process are more about the delivery and maintenance of your content and your content team.

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Education Content Strategy Texas 44

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

Proponents of nonprofit impact investing cite that seven out of ten high-net-worth Americans have more faith in the private sector than the nonprofit or government sectors due to its utilization of social impact investing. This type of investment is increasing among women, Gen-Xers, and Millennials.

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Impact Social Arizona Homeless 40

Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

And there is more structure to ease any cultural or tactical friction that might arise between the departments. Unique staffing models are emerging. Leadership decisions for rules governing the intersectionality of mid-level are now common. Unique Staffing Models. How are nonprofits closing the gap? Engaged Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector. She touched on some of the implications for staffing and governance. They want to combine both.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 17, 2014

“For us at Gradian, this structure has worked terrifically – as a start-up social enterprise we are able to pursue non-profitable objectives with a steady, reliable source of funding (who gets to say that?!). Government t often then adopts these innovations, institutionalizes the programs and scales them up for large social change.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Over 90 percent of businesses report using cloud solutions now, and many software companies are in the process of moving to it or already have. The pricing structure of cloud services is really different than traditional software and takes some getting used to. I was skeptical of whether the pricing model would be good for charities.

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Adobe Application Charity Sharepoint 36

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

A structure has emerged to serve this purpose, called the Benefit Corporation. B Labs is working to create a new model for business : "When you support a B Corporation, you’re supporting a better way to do business. Governments and nonprofits are necessary but insufficient to solve today’s most pressing problems.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Occasionally, the nonprofit business model is not the right setup for your organization. Other times the nonprofit model just isn’t the right fit. First, your organization completes an impact assessment to determine the effect it has on the community in four segments: governance, workers, community and environment.

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Benefit Files Nonprofit Environment 28

NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. And rightly so. Data carry enormous potential.

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Data New York Government Digital 91

Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

Now that you know how to place the right people in the right positions based on their skills to succeed, it is also important to ensure that you have implemented a governance model. So, what is Salesforce governance? Salesforce governance, specifically, includes three major components. Why Does Governance Matter?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

Charity Governance reports that, "For the period from October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007 (fiscal year 2007), the IRS received 85,771 applications for recognition of Section 501(c)(3) status." According to Nonprofitist.org's post, How Many International Nonprofits Can You Count? there are 1.4

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Membership associations are a popular type of nonprofit that use a member-based business model to advocate for change and foster community—usually within a specific industry or sector. How Memberships Work for Associations Membership lies at the heart of the association business model. This article’s got all your bases covered!

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Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

However, if your main goal is to make money and you have a successful revenue model, you would be wise to consider starting a for-profit. Bylaws are the main governing document of your nonprofit and will act as a guide and decision-making tool for the board of directors. How can I tell if my nonprofit will succeed? Create your bylaws.

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Guide Files Nonprofit Law 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

reports that three-quarters of those surveyed are more likely to buy a product if the vendor makes a donation to a good cause, and many are willing to change their buying habits — to pay more for a product — if by doing so they can do good in the world. TV campaigns and government pamphlets are treated with suspicion and disdain.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 21, 2006

Just something else I came across cleaning up my desk - consulting giant Accenture released a report the other day on non-profit management. Explore and adopt new collaborative business models with complementary organizations. Engage board members to ensure quality governance structures.

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2008

He suggests that the show should spend more time looking at the structural issues that are the root cause of the problem. Today on Techcrunch , Michael Arrington blogs from Davos about a suggestion that government step in to save the whole newspaper industry. Everyblock grabs police reports (eek! I don’t want to know!)

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Baltimore Journal News FAQ 40

Forum One

JULY 11, 2005

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference.

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