Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 8/11/24

Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: 10 Major Legal Threats to U.S. Civil Society (International Center for Not-for-Profit Law) Study Concludes TCJA Reduced Charitable Giving by $20 Billion Annually (darryll k. jones, Nonprofit Law […]

2024 SSIR Nonprofit Management Institute

The Stanford Social Innovation Review’s 2024 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI), “What’s Next for the Social Sector? Strategies and Tactics for Today’s Agile Leaders,” will be held on September 17-18, 2024. This year’s NMI will be a hybrid conference allowing for in-person and virtual attendance. You can register here. The organizers have done a fantastic job […]

Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 7/7/24

Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: In a World Filled With Misinformation, Donors Want Truth From Charities (Chronicle of Philanthropy) Inside Project 2025 (James Goodwin, Boston Review) Judge Denies Texas Attorney General’s Efforts to […]

Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 6/23/24

Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: State of Nonprofits 2024: What Funders Need to Know (Center for Effective Philanthropy) Nonprofits Are Taking a Stance on Gaza — and Paying the Price (Sara Herschander, Chronicle […]

2024 Northern California Grantmakers Annual Conference

On Tuesday, June 18, Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) held its Annual Conference: Imagine and Act in Oakland, California. The NCG website included the following in its description of the Conference: We can only act on what we can imagine. As philanthropy is called to meet this moment, we need to expand our imagination. How can we […]

Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 6/16/24

Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: Here We Go Again (and Again and Again): Let’s Stop Looking for the One ‘New Approach’ to Philanthropy (Phil Buchanan, Center for Effective Philanthropy) [Ed. This excellent response […]

More from the GEO 2024 National Conference

I had the pleasure of attending the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) 2024 National Conference last week and wrote about some highlights from Day One here. Below are some highlights from the rest of the Conference. Highlights from the Conference Asset Framing: Why Your Peers Are Still Achieving Historic Wins for Equity Trabian Shorters delivered the enlightening […]

Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 5/19/24

Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: Ways and Means Advances Solutions to Protect Election Integrity, Fight Foreign Money in American Politics (U.S. Ways and Means Committee) House Committee Advances Bills to Increase Transparency of […]

Movement Organizations

Social movements are collective efforts, some organized, some impromptu, with a goal to bring about some change important to movement participants. Well-known movements that have resulted in beneficial changes include those for civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, worker rights, immigrant rights, environmental rights, animal rights, democracy, and peace. But, as we’ve witnessed, […]

Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 5/12/24

Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. I had the privilege of spending much of the week in Zion National Park (pictured above) for the first time and learned that “approximately 71 percent of Utah consists of public lands managed by federal […]