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Fundraising is important. Making a difference, more so.
So much activity in the nonprofit sector focuses on fundraising. Books, articles, webinars, conferences and consultants stand ready to help nonprofits write a grant application, raise money online or...
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The business of “global pro bono” is thriving, for better or worse
Voluntourism has been getting a bad name lately. “Unsatisfying as it may be, we ought to acknowledge the truth that we, as amateurs, often don’t have much to offer,” Jacob Kushner wrote recently in The...
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Polite applause for Guidestar Platinum
Slow progress is better than no progress. So GuideStar’s Platinum designation, which encourages nonprofits to share their results in an important new way, deserves a round of polite applause, if not...
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Feedback: A nonprofit learns to listen to the customer.
Listen to the customer. Businesses do it, albeit imperfectly. So do nonprofits. But the question for nonprofits is, who’s the customer? Most nonprofits listen to their donors. Those that raise money...
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Philanthropy NEXT: Why measure impact?
A peculiar challenge facing anyone who produces journalism about the nonprofit sector is the sector’s incredible diversity. Setting aside their legal status as tax-exempt organizations, Harvard,...
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Lunch with a genius
Mauricio Miller of the Family Independence Initiative Mauricio Lim Miller spent about two decades leading a anti-poverty organization in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he did it well, so well that...
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On a scale of zero to 10, would you recommend this nonprofit? Good question!
We rate restaurants. Why not nonprofits? I’m just back from a vacation in Tulum, Mexico. I found great places to eat using Trip Advisor (try El Tabano, above), and wrote several reviews once I got...
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Feedback Summit 2017: Power to the people?
David Bonbright has been called the Johnny Appleseed of feedback David Bonbright traces his belief in the power of voice back to a peaceful revolution. Decades ago, while living and working in South...
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Nexleaf Analytics: Feedback in the cookstove sector
Carbon offsets have delivered many millions of dollars to finance cookstoves, for better or worse–probably, alas, for worse. Since the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves was formed in 2010, so-called...
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Mario Morino: Fixing nonprofits
Some people who start out poor and then make a lot of money forget their roots. Not Mario Morino. In a speech to the august City Club of Cleveland in 2012, Morino talked about growing up in one of the...
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