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3 Leadership Tips to Help Employees Avoid Burnout
Nonprofit leaders can take simple steps to help their hardworking employees avoid burnout and continue loving their jobs.
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Why Most Performance Evaluations Are Biased, and How to Fix Them
Read about how your performance evaluations may contain hidden biases and learn how to create more equitable evaluations.
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In this new era of philanthropy and giving, it may be time for both nonprofits and donors to re-think the way they approach philanthropy.
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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers
In search of some inspiration in the New Year? This article provides 10 ideas for nonprofit social media managers to make the most impact.
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Listening to the Community to Reimagine How a Foundation Delivers on Its Mission
“Based on feedback from community listening sessions and consultations with local experts, The San Francisco Foundation reshaped its grantmaking strategy and role in addressing…
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The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy
This Harvard Business Review article discusses the importance of empathy when leading an organization and the benefits that accompany positive leadership.
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How to Successfully and Sustainably Scale Your Nonprofit
Every nonprofit will face a time when they will ask themselves, “How do we scale our organization?” Here are some key aspects that will help answer that question.
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Our Default Organizational Decision-Making Model is Flawed: Here’s an Awesome Alternative
The decision-making model where the ED/CEO makes the final decision can be problematic and lead to decision fatigue. Read about an alternative model that changes the way decisions…
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Measuring Nonprofit Outcomes and Progress: What Data Should You Collect?
Learn about how to collect and analyze the right data in order to measure the progress of your nonprofit.
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What Drives Nonprofit Executive Compensation?
Read about a study that determined the reasons behind the salaries for executives in the nonprofit and for-profit realms and how it affects different subsectors of arts, education, health, and human services.
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Nonprofits Use Creative Placemaking to Address Public Safety
Read about some nonprofits that have been successful in administering creative placemaking strategies to address public safety to inspire you or your organization to do the same!
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Philanthropy in the Service of Democracy
Learn how philanthropy can be made to serve democratic ends and why it matters.
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Philanthropy Day Speaker Seeks to Help Nonprofits “Understand their Awesomeness”
Read about our most recent Philanthropy Day speaker, Vu Le, and what he was trying to convey to nonprofits in our community.
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About #GivingTuesday: Will Larger Trends Show Up as Reduced Community Revenue?
On the heels of 2019’s #GivingTuesday, read about the current trends of giving to organizations like yours, and why it is happening.
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Why Are We Still Struggling with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Nonprofit Governance?
Read about why diversity, equity and inclusion are struggling to persist in nonprofits, and so strategies as to how to combat this in your organization.
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How we can help those who want to do real good use their actions in the most helpful ways
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Redefining the Path to Success: Moving from Ego-thinking to Eco-thinking in the Social Sector
Explore how using an ecosystem map can foster collaboration and communication in your organization and your community.
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Building Financially Resilient Nonprofits: Lessons From the Field
Think about what financial resiliency means to your organization!
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How Grantmakers Can Use Power Mindfully to Advance Equity
Learn how funders can start to use power positively to advance equity and justice in the nonprofit sector.
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Read about ways to lead your organization through a system change and some challenges that might come with it.
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Yes, You Can – and You Should! Nonprofit Advocacy as a Core Competency
Read about how nonprofits can, and should play a role in advocating for and enacting social change in the current political environment that is so strongly…
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Republicans Give More to Charity than Democrats, but There’s a Bigger Story Here
In honor of the recent Midterms Election, read about the differences in giving between Democrats and Republicans, and why those may be occurring.
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Read about the concept of a toxic work environment, what leads people to get there, and ways that you can combat the repercussions…
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Learn about an organization in Charlottesville that can help you reevaluate and change the way you network to be more efficient and rewarding!
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Philanthropy’s Ultimate Power-Sharing Opportunity: Governance
Read about the essential role your Board can play in the journey to efficient power sharing, as well as what that may entail and important lessons that come of it.
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