Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

Forum One’s 11 awards included two platinum, five gold, and four silver awards across focus areas, including cultural institutions, health and wellness, environmental awareness, and government. These awards honored Forum One’s work in building websites, digital tools, and virtual experiences for our clients. It provides data for all U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. Involve people closest to the problem. Make boundaries flexible. Forge unity form diversity.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2023

Steven brings a problem-solving approach to all his work, and excels in collaborative iteration with clients. “A A strength of Forum One is that because we have worked with so many stellar nonprofits and government agencies of all sizes we’ve seen what works. Using AI to Guide a Career Path in Government U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role. This was originally posted on the GuideStar International Blog.

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VisionLink

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This gets interesting at the intersection of charitable or nonprofit support, and government sponsored support. The problem comes when a client needs to give more information than they are comfortable releasing to gain help, and particularly when that information is expected by governmental agencies.

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Qgiv

JULY 24, 2024

Obedience The duty of obedience requires your board members to adhere to your organization’s mission, bylaws, and policies. Cooperative governance model The cooperative governance model emphasizes shared decision-making and collective responsibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2014

Use of social media to discuss the world’s most pressing problems has move from under the table, onto the wall, and now with yesterday’s online event engaged many new voices. Tweet behind the scene pictures, no handshakes please pic.twitter.com/SJB3MXDmGR #TwitterTips — Twiplomacy (@Twiplomacy) January 1, 2014. Civil Society 2.0

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Candid

JULY 8, 2024

Foundation program officers and government officials can unintentionally limit the impact of community-based organizations by funding them to serve only a specific demographic group and a narrow set of activities. Tackling root causes involves year-round voter engagement and policy advocacy.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And this is a problem. In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. Every nonprofit has a Board of Directors. Yet most people don’t understand exactly what the Board’s job is. It’s surprising.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 29, 2021

The Board of Directors is the governing body of a nonprofit. While the Governance Committee can and should step in to address these issues, it is ultimately the Board Chair’s responsibility to stop the madness. The Board Chair should refer to the Bylaws to review policies for conflict resolution and/ or removing members from the board.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. family becomes homeless.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many organizations’ risk management plans focus on the steps they’ll take to mitigate problems once they’ve occurred. Strengthen Your Organization’s Internal Controls Internal controls are policies and procedures that nonprofits put in place to help avoid risky situations. Adopting a conflict of interest policy.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 1, 2024

Internal and administrative issued trailed these attributes, with 55% of respondents focusing on whether a nonprofit’s board provides adequate oversight of staff and operations, and less than half – 47% – focusing on how the nonprofit’s policies and procedures address diversity, equity and inclusion. That’s the real problem.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? Loss of investigative reporting: Investigative journalism, which is often resource-intensive, has suffered in many areas, leading to reduced oversight of local government and institutions. John Palfrey, president of the MacArthur Foundation, calls the philanthropic funding “seed money,” not charity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The premise is that complaints about an organization's database may be misdirected: the problem is how the system is being managed (aka management problems disguised as technology problems). Do you have policies and procedures governing the use of the database?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue. Before taking the steps to start a nonprofit, ask yourself these questions: What need or problem will the nonprofit address?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. We must not accept any technology as the default solution for our problems. Good quote: “To a hammer, everything is a nail.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Check out our last installment here !

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Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

The scope of the problem seems really big…but is bad data really preventing you from getting your work done? Establish Data Governance Policies: Put a data source inventory in place if you don’t have one. Management : Is someone in your organization assigned to manage data hygiene? Lots of challenges, right? Probably not.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

We provide examples of how to achieve this alignment more effectively, as well as examples of common data problems that organizations encounter and need to overcome. Based on informal discussions with webinar attendees, the problem seems clear. Step one is to recognize the problem. Do your data governance policies need updating?

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sgEngage

JULY 19, 2021

On the surface, improving your organization’s approach to philanthropic sponsorships can seem like a small step to take in light of the problems outlined above. Create a philanthropic support policy. This policy will serve you well for future grant programs. A good policy is necessary, but not sufficient.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. Here are some insights I picked up: Open Government Directive: Coming soon? Impressive. Maxine Teller.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on artificial intelligence and its implications for civil society. AI for Social Good: The McKinsey company recently released its “ AI and Social Good Report ,” which includes a landscape analysis of how AI is currently being used to solve big hairy problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

AI4Good is a somewhat new field that sits at the intersection of big tech companies and the world’s biggest problems. The report provides detail about the opportunities and challenges and offers some next steps for social good organizations, technology companies, and policy makers. . For organizations, the guidelines include: .

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BoardAssist

MARCH 1, 2017

As New York’s leading personalized nonprofit board matching service, we spend a lot of time working with nonprofit boards to help them craft their nonprofit’s give/get policy – or how much board members should be asked to annually generate for the boards on which they serve.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Luckily for us, governance consultant Tom Okarma has written a terrific guest post for us this week on exactly this topic. John Carver has written extensively on board governance and discusses “means and ends ” as a way to differentiate between what board responsibilities and CEO responsibilities. Thanks for your great advice Tom!

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible. Overcoming Challenging Board Members Almost every small and growing nonprofit Board has problems. People-problems are harder to fix. Or the ones who never stop talking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2022

This list will help you ensure there are no conflicts of interest and to learn who at the organization has governance responsibilities. In that time, I have picked up a few best practices regarding nonprofit structure and governance. Request a list of Board members from the grantee. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Determination Letter.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

The “Peace Corps for Geeks” Delivers Tech Solutions to Urban Problems - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : Calling itself “the Peace Corps for Geeks,” the San Francisco–based nonprofit Code for America (CFA) is on a mission to help city government work better through technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

CalNonprofits anticipates more state and federal policy efforts to emerge as this industry and these practices mature and has released this Open Letter to Crowdfunding Platforms. Donors should have access to customer support to deal with questions and problems. … Read More

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

A story that compels includes a protagonist your audience cares about, important problems that must be overcome, a solution that overcomes the problem (something to root for), and (4) an ending—hopefully a happy one. . Last week’s message or appeal didn’t necessarily make sense for next week’s communications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

First, decrease earnings and wealth inequities by going back to the tax policies of the 50s, 60s and 70s, where those who were wealthy paid much more in taxes than they do today. Further, Occupy has put pressure on the government to better regulate corporations and banks. Occupy has made this argument mainstream.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Remember: Your donors want to help you solve the problem you’re working on, often by advocating to government leaders, being an evangelist for your mission, and volunteering and —and! DTR: Building REAL Relationships. People Matter. Finally, but perhaps foremost, we come to my third takeaway: People matter.

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