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How Lessons Learned From Fighting Food Insecurity Can Help Your Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

Six best practices for small ways your nonprofit can lead great change. It’s a simple act with a big impact—like what many of us do in the nonprofit sector. And just like many other nonprofits, the more you start trying to address this need in your community, the more you realize the issue is a lot bigger than you originally thought.

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501c.yada, yada, yada

Sharpshooter Communications

There are probably a million loopholes through and around these requirements. Here is a simplified version of the MOST COMMON TYPES of nonprofit designations. Dana’s plain English: It’s a legit nonprofit that gets most of its operating revenues from donations - not fees for service - and doesn’t have investments that pay dividends.

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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

Get Fully Funded

Nonprofits rely on donations and unless you are independently wealthy and able to self-fund your organization, you’ll need to share with folks a request for donations. Listen, starting a nonprofit is NOT a “build it and they will come” activity. Your nonprofit is just the conduit for donors to accomplish their philanthropic desires.

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March Cause Awareness: Women’s History Month

Qgiv

Learn how you can take the time to celebrate Women’s History Month with our list of ideas and nonprofits you can support! Support women’s nonprofits No matter what causes you’re passionate about, there are plenty of women’s nonprofits you can contribute to for Women’s History Month.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

However, we can revisit the topic of workers’ rights through a new lens by exploring the increasing role that a newer breed of labor organizations plays in the social sector. The rise of “alt-labor” nonprofit organizations. Unlike 501(c)(5) labor unions, most alt-labor organizations are 501(c)(3) nonprofits. million to $35.6

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How Boston’s Top Nonprofits Got Their Butts Kicked & What We Can Learn From Rabbi Chaim

Selfish Giving

Rabbi Chaim is the only one among Boston’s nonprofit leaders who’s wearing one after he handed the rest of us ours in a vote-getting competition sponsored by Virgin America , Boston’s newest air carrier, that earned his organization, The Sharon Friendship Circle (aka The Chabad of Sharon), $25,000.

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The 2024 Election: A Grant Writer’s Post Mortem

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

In early 1981, I went to Washington DC for a NAHRO (National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials) conference and some lobbying on the Hill. Congress has yet to pass any FY ’25 (the new FY started Oct. The lame duck Congress will pass FY ’25 CRs by mid-December, which will likely mirror FY ’24.

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