Only a small percentage of private foundations use their endowment assets for impact investing…
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Challenges the Nonprofit Workforce Faces
Fund the People Apr 2, 2024READ THE TRANSCRIPT Dr. Akilah Watkins is President and CEO of Independent Sector, one of the national organizations that pulls together our sector and represents it in Washington. Dr. Watkins has been on a national listening tour of the nonprofit sector since she took on this leadership role in…
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The Harm of Underinvestment: Women of Color Leaders Explain
Nonprofit Quarterly Apr 2, 2024From underinvestment to burnout, a recently released report details the struggles that women and nonbinary leaders of color face. It also offers a path forward to address these challenges.
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Steps Toward Environmental Sustainability for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Quarterly Apr 1, 2024Even nonprofits without a focus on the environment need to care about climate justice. Donors are starting to expect it.
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Nonprofits May Need to Spend About One-third of Their Budget on Overhead to Thrive
The Conversation Mar 31, 2024Nonprofits that spend more on information technology, facilities, equipment, staff training, program development and fundraising tend to be more successful than those that scrimp on these”overhead expenses.“ But many donors…
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How Demographic Data Can Help With Nonprofit Transparency
Candid Mar 31, 2024Candid Blog | Viewpoint Consulting’s Kelly Brown shares new research findings on sharing demographic data via Candid, including the drivers and barriers of collecting this information to advance nonprofit transparency.
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Why Nonprofits and Funders Should Leverage Demographic Data
Candid Mar 30, 2024Candid Blog | Discover why data on under-resourced communities is key unlocking greater impact and better serving the needs of nonprofit beneficiaries.
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Why We Should Flip the Funding Formula to Support Nonprofits
Fund the People Mar 29, 2024It is not that difficult to make a common-sense case to funders that it is in their foundation’s own self-interest to invest in grantee staff and the organizational systems that…
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For many years, philanthropy and investing have been considered separate disciplines—one championing social change, the other financial gain. The idea that the two approaches could be integrated within the same…
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How to Build Effective Foundation Board Succession Plans
Forbes Mar 27, 2024Building resilient foundations: Ensure long-term impact with these ten transformative tactics to ensure your foundation’s governance remains robust and responsive.
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Building Stronger Disability Culture as a Business Practice
Forbes Mar 26, 2024In this third column in the series the focus is on the meaning and value of Disability Culture from a business perspective. This new language offer leadership a new approach to meet the challenges and tensions for a new world of work.
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Supporting BIPOC Developers in Accessing Capital
LISC Mar 24, 2024Haitian-born Julio Bateau arrived in Detroit in 1978 with a graduate degree in structural engineering and a spirit of possibility. He was drawn to Midtown, a then-economically distressed area in…
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