Nonprofit leaders can and do react to current conditions in developing their plans and advancing their organizations’ missions. Effective leaders also proactively prepare for the future while looking back for lessons and context. Among the many trends and forces for the future worthy of consideration: Many nonprofits have adopted...
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What Do Nonprofits Owe to the Future?
The question of a nonprofit’s future needs and impact raises a couple of related concepts: intergenerational equity and longtermism. Of course, all planning involves thinking about the future – whether it be in designing programs, fundraising, marketing, budgeting, investing, advocating, collaborating, or engaging in myriad things that are necessary...
Gender-Based Violence and Firearms
Editor: I asked Trinity Salazar to write a post on a current issue of importance with a brief recommendation of policy goals that could be advanced by nonprofits. While this is a bit of a departure from our usual content, it is intended to promote nonprofit advocacy, a theme...
Purpose-Driven Board Leadership and Climate Change
Governance and climate change. More attention is being given to the interplay of these seemingly unrelated issues, including at the upcoming 2024 Stanford Social Innovation Review Nonprofit Management Institute – What’s Next for the Social Sector? This year’s conference, taking place on September 17-18, is organized as a hybrid, allowing...
Nonprofit Radio: Election Year Issues 2024
I recently spoke with Tony Martignetti, host of Nonprofit Radio, about election year issues for charities in 2024. You can join the 13,000 weekly listeners and catch the Nonprofit Radio podcast here. Tony and I have previously spoken about election year advocacy for charities. It’s important at the outset to...
Proposed DAF Regulations: Strafford CLE/CPE Program
Karl Mill of the Mill Law Center and I will be presenting a Continuing Legal Education / Continuing Professional Education (CLE/CPE) webinar for Strafford on the recently proposed donor advised fund (DAF) regulations. You can watch live on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 10 am to 11:30 am PST...
Nonprofit Radio: Our Esteemed Contributors’ 2024 Outlooks
I recently joined fellow Nonprofit Radio contributor Amy Sample Ward in conversation with host Tony Martignetti about what we expect to see in the new year. Listen to the podcast here. Amy Sample Ward and Gene Takagi kick off the New Year with what they’ll be keeping eyes on this...
10 Significant News Events of 2023
In 2023, the World Health Organization declared an end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency, artificial intelligence dominated the news, and the nonprofit sector received some long-awaited regulations. Here is our list of 10 significant news events affecting nonprofits in the United States in 2023, and a few...
Fearless Foundation Case: CoF and IS Amicus Brief
The Council on Foundations (CoF) and Independent Sector (IS) announced on December 13, 2023 that they had filed a joint amicus brief in support of the Fearless Foundation with respect to a lawsuit claiming that the Foundation’s grant program is in violation of Section 1981 of the Civil Rights...
Nonprofit Radio: OpenAI and Nonprofit-Money Collaborations
I recently spoke with Tony Martignetti, host of Nonprofit Radio, about the OpenAI nonprofit-for-profit joint venture drama making headlines and some lessons to be learned about nonprofit collaborations heavily influenced by money. You can join the 13,000 weekly listeners and catch the Nonprofit Radio podcast here. As general background, you...