Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Welcome to “Tech Policies for Virtual Teams—A Leader’s Responsibility.” And your perspective on technology policies, I think, will vary a little bit depending on your role in the organization. The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning.

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Policy Team Virtual Tech 102

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But there are structural problems that create inequality which, in combination with climate change, pose an existential threat to the nonprofit sector itself. Tragically, the most severe consequences will likely be borne by the world’s poor, who did the least to cause the problem. We are facing a future of growing human need.

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Tips Philanthropy Government Nonprofit 72

Candid

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A nonprofit is more like a public company than a private enterprise in that it’s governed by a board of directors as well as its executive team. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions: What’s the difference between an advisory board and a governing board? Without one, all kinds of problems can—and frequently do—arise.

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Law Structure Government Nonprofit 114

.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Civic and government partners played pivotal roles in their ability to provide that support. More likely to be successful in advocacy and public policy. Look to the corporate sector, government, civic, or other associations or non-profit organizations to find collaborators who will add value. More likely to achieve their goals.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Collaboration Associations 221

.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

But good governance shouldn’t be comfortable. Seek a Portfolio of Ideas A good mix of demographic and cultural backgrounds adds vitality and equity to board deliberations; however, it doesn’t necessarily guarantee a variety of thinking, problem-solving skills, or professional experience. Collegiality among leaders is a good thing.

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Build Demographics Associations Voice 322

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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Award Oregon Museum Policy 87

.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

We uncover hidden problems and opportunities.” Strengthen Problem-Solving If your group struggles to find the objective information you need to make challenging decisions, an assessment can be targeted to identify the customized data and analytics that will bring you closer to the right solutions. The value is in the journey.

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Technology Evaluation System Associations 170

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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Government Chapter Case Study Homeless 52

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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Strategy Government Analytics Roles 78

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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Foundation Build Grant Fund 86

Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Everyone sees problems in the world, but true visionaries have the drive and the passion to engage everyone around them to help solve them. Perhaps you are one of those people who have a unique solution to solving a problem or filling a need and the drive and ambition to accomplish it. Create your bylaws.

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Guide Files Nonprofit Law 104

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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Policy Government Internet Chile 44

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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Policy Goal Twitter Develop 109

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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Government Accessibility Resource Charity 100

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Government has a rich legacy of social entrepreneurship. Consider some examples from American policy history. In response to the Great Depression in the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration enacted the nation’s first-ever social policy with the programs of the Social Security Act.

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Government Research Social United Kingdom 100

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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Guide Model Nonprofit Roles 52

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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Community Organization Arizona Georgia 52

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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Director Roles Evaluation Nonprofit 116

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. — Dawn Darby from The Therapy Place People-Oriented Board Members Can Better Support EDs Board members are most effective when they engage in high-level thinking and generative conversation rather than problem-focused rehashing of minor issues and problems.

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Skills Children Collaboration DC 93

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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Nonprofit Government Culture Consultant 108

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The news is not all bad though, especially if you consider the power of philanthropy to not only solve shared problems, but to also give those engaged in giving and volunteering connectedness, purpose and joy. You can’t control tax policy as an external incentive for giving. You can’t control religious affiliation. Create community.

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Philanthropy Culture Rate Hype 94

Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your organization should create data security policies to guide all your software systems, hardware, user devices, and storage devices. The more you know, the better you’ll be able to identify suspicious activity and transactions, which you can shut down before it becomes a problem. What is a data security strategy?

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Practice Data Strategy Associations 102

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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Government Research New York Homeless 85

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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Journal Local News Fund 96

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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Management Strategy International Nonprofit 71

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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Impact Arlington Virginia Charity 59

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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Impact California Conservancy Bolivia 116

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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Database Law Policy Problem 156

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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Nonprofit Files Policy Director 85

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 !

Advocacy 207

Advocacy Nonprofit Train Training 207

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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Data Analytics Associations Registration 169

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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Data Technology Fundraising Database 148

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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Platform Grant Policy Benefit 95

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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Government Open Strategy Teen 60

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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Google Challenge Report Impact 74

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For a lot of reasons, UNGA is especially important this year: It’s the first in-person assembly since the outbreak of COVID-19 , which makes it the first true in-person gathering from a multi sector perspective, with heads of government, heads of business and heads of civil society.

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Global Conversation New York New York City 59