art and artists
How Nonprofits Advance Causes through The Arts
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Artists often gravitate toward social causes. But increasingly, those causes are gravitating toward artists and arts audiences to better tell their stories and to raise money.
Conversations & Change: The Crucial Link
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As McCambridge writes, “When conversations that are meant to advance the work of nonprofits get stuck, it can take years, even decades, to get them moving again.” So, how can we get—and keep—change-oriented conversations advancing?
diversity and inclusion
US University Head at International Gathering Calls on Sector to Embrace Public Mission
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Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark, lays out her vision of an engaged “anchor institution” at a conference in South Africa. Engagement, Cantor says, is not just about good intentions; rather, the university must change its character to reflect and meet the educational needs of the full diversity of the community it serves.
pop-up art
Innovative Seattle Nonprofit Commissions Social Change Art and a Pop-up Studio
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With the support of artist Shepard Fairey, the new Seattle-based organization Amplifier is leveraging art to amplify social change messages. Its goal: to help save democracy.
donor engagement
Starting A Major Gifts Program: Part I
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Kim Klein walks us through the necessary steps to starting a major gifts program, from setting goals to preparing solicitation materials to asking for renewals.
Voices from the Field
Patient Philanthropy: How a Small Foundation Got Big Results
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This co-founder of a small foundation discusses how their very personal philanthropic vehicle builds on what many might consider a limited grants budget.
social change
Nonprofits and Strategic Rhetoric: Make It Your Own
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I want to suggest that you set the time aside for a really extraordinary webinar we have planned for the 27th of September. Julie Sweetland will be joining us from the FrameWorks Institute to help us all get our heads straight for the social change tasks we have ahead of us before and after the upcoming election. FrameWorks’ expertise is in communication, addressing the issues we care most about in productive ways. That’s one of the biggest core responsibilities we share. Here is the description for the session, and I will tell you that even in prepping for this session with Julie, I had any number of “Aha!” moments.
Policy & Government
Close Up Shop and Go Elsewhere? A Case Study for Philanthropy on What to Do When We Win
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If we’ve learned anything from landmark legal victories of the past—the ratification of women’s suffrage, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act—it is that a major legal victory like marriage equality is only the beginning of a much longer and more challenging struggle.
social movements
“Big Bets” Help Fuel Social Movements
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Does philanthropy play a useful role in transformative social movements? It can, and does in some cases.
sliding scales
15 in 2015: An End-of-Year Selection of Nonprofit Management Stories
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Management of nonprofits is a complex endeavor knit together by a strong vision and value set. These particular stories were first published this year, among many others from 2015 that are just as worthy.