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The 10 roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors

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Whether you’re just starting out or already have a Board in place, you need to understand the role of your nonprofit’s Board so you can support people to understand and fulfill their roles and responsibilities. Let’s look at the 10 basic roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors.

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Unions and their role in the social sector

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In honor of Labor Day, this blog—the first in a two-part series—offers insights into the various roles that unions play within the social sector, based on data from available recent tax filings (2016 and on). . Unions award grants. According to the latest Candid data, unions paid out $252 million in grants. $

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How to Structure Your Fundraising Event Committee

Greater Giving

We’ll cover in-depth committee structure and breakdowns of committee roles later on. For a more detailed rundown of each of these gala committees with roles and job descriptions , check out our list of Event Committee Roles and Responsibilities. Important Event Committee Roles and Jobs. Sponsorship Committee.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. Here are a few: More Effective Decisions : It makes sense to involve the people impacted by philanthropic dollars in setting strategy and making grants! Those at the top decide.

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What can we do together?

Candid

Candid : What would you like people to know about your services and how you view your role in the community? Second are representatives of nonprofits who are turning to grants to help their organization grow capacity. My role is to contextualize those tools and teach customers how to best use them.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

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One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent).

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