Branding
Your Promise is Your Brand: How to Work It
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A nonprofit brand is an agreement between an organization and its constituents. It is a promise given in good conscience and reinforced through stakeholder experience.
Nonprofit Management
Cautionary Tales (Aug 07)
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I was having one of those “ain’t it awful?” conversations with an old friend the other day who is a big advocate of economic justice issues.
Policy & Government
Free Media? An Interview With Robert McChesney
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Editors’ Note: In getting grounded in the media landscape we talked with Robert McChesney, an activist scholar in the area of media policy and founder of Free Press (www.freepress.net). McChesney’s description of the active approach toward publications and the press throughout U.S. history can inform and inspire us to shift ourmedia environment to one which is more relevant for an informed democracy.
Philanthropy
Greatness, Greed, and Unscripted Reality
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Is a nonprofit sector doing all it can to address the disaster wrought by the recent hurricanes?
Policy & Government
Nonprofits’ Highest Calling: Fighting for the Rights of the Dispossessed
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Nonprofits have a role and responsibility in ensuring that the nation’s response to Hurricane Katrina amounts to more than profit taking for the well-positioned.
Fall 2005
How to Select and Use a Fund Development Consultant
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For nonprofits with open eyes and motivation for change, hiring a fund development consultant can pay off in a big way.
Fall 2005
Musical Auditors and Creative License in Grant Proposals: The Nonprofit Ethicist Is In
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
This is the first installment of NPQ’s longest running column, the Nonprofit Ethicist. What is your dilemma? Advice in this column includes the Ethicist’s take on an MSO’s board issues, and what to do with a bad case of founder syndrome.
Fall 2005
Tech Success Stories: Innovative Uses of Technology by Nonprofits
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Nonprofits are using information and communications technologies to support their missions in innovative ways. Many of these organizations are achieving great results with limited amounts of money and technical expertise.
Nonprofit Management
Welcome to Fall 2005
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Welcome to the fall 2005 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly entitled “Amplifying Democracy: Nonprofits and Communications.” Inside, we have included articles on everything from branding and social marketing to how communications fits in social change and organizing strategies. We have looked at how communities can be helped to reframe issues and what it takes to tell a good enough story to impact public policy. There is a wealth of information in these pages, in fact, and more links to information that we were not able to include. By way of introduction, we would like to call your attention to some foundational concepts. First, there is a natural link between a free press that promotes discourse and dissent, and a sector that promotes citizen engagement on social issues.
Fall 2005
Making Our Communications Strategic
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To move an issue from being a concern of the already convinced to being a concern of a broader community, we need to cultivate that broader community.