nonprofit workers
The New Employment Contract and How Nonprofits Must Honor It
What motivates nonprofit employees, and are our employment contracts in the right shape to attract the best workforce possible?
studies and reports
Doing Good by the Young and Old: Forty Years of American Volunteering
The ability of nonprofits to engage volunteers in carrying out their missions, allows us to expand beyond what we can buy to what heartfelt human capital can attract. But what do you know about the trends in volunteering? This article offers a rare summary.
nonprofit demographics
The Nonprofit Workforce: By the Numbers
This article, from the Nonprofit Quarterly’s fall 2016 edition, “The Nonprofit Workforce: Overcoming Obstacles,” comes to us from the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics. It kicks off a full month of NPQ focus on the nonprofit workforce.
Board Governance
Voices of Board Chairs: A National Study on the Perspectives of Nonprofit Board Chairs
This valuable and unique article, adapted from a larger report by the Governance Affinity Group of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, reveals through surveying board chairs themselves some common oversights in succession planning for that critical role. Nonprofits should share this with their boards and schedule a time for a discussion!
nonprofit evaluation
A Youth Development Approach to Evaluation: Critical Participatory Action Research
This article explores how five youth development programs are using critical participatory action research and youth participatory evaluation to deliver on accountability while engaging youth and improving program delivery.
Nonprofit Management
Fall 2016 Digital Issue
We hope that these articles will challenge all nonprofits to think differently about their organizations and fields and all funders to consider what workforce problems they are supporting by the choices that they make and the questions they neglect.
arts nonprofits
The Empty Space: A Look at How Theaters Have Filled Gaps in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
How to achieve inclusion? The authors of this extraordinary article portray organizations they believe are part of the seismic shifts needed to maintain a vibrant inclusive future for American theater. Nonprofits in every field of practice can learn a lot here.