Corus International, a new non-government organization, has brought together a handful of nonprofit and for-profit entities. The organization operates under the theory that combined expertise provides more resources for global challenges such as climate change, health care access, and poverty. The bedrock nonprofits within Corus are Baltimore-based Lutheran World Relief, a global development organization that […]

Many nonprofits in the United States are in or are about to be in a CEO successor pinch. This pinch is structural, has multiple causes, and will affect the nonprofit sector in multiple ways for the next several years.  The way this structural squeeze at the CEO level gets resolved will be determined by the […]

A nonprofit’s main focus is to carry out its mission to the best of its ability yet there’s one thing that cannot be lost in the desire to do good: A fiduciary responsibility to its funding sources and the community to use those resources prudently. In their book “The Best of Boards,” Marci Thomas and […]

Top grant professionals collaborate with administrators to hammer out an annual proposal development calendar that reflects the nonprofit’s strategic plan and provides a roadmap for what needs to be done when. But what happens when a crisis blows apart that well-considered strategy? Lightning-strike events effect every area of an organization’s work and quickly reorder priorities. […]

“Love Always Prevails,” a three-minute film from medical service nonprofit Operation Smile has won the Not-For-Profit and Government category in the Brand Film Awards U.S. The documentary also received a Special Jury Remi award in the Family/Children shorts category at WorldFest, an independent film and video festival, and earned two golds in this year’s Telly […]

More than 35,000 nonprofits have investment funds, with $800 billion in assets managed. The funds generate an average return – net of administrative expenses – of 5.3 percent, according to The Risk, Reward, and Asset Allocation of Nonprofit Endowment Funds, a research paper from Andrew W. Lo and Egor Matveyev of the MIT Sloan School […]

Many organizations spend an enormous amount of resources creating fundraising events that fall short of their goals. Typically, with underwhelming events the guests complain of being bored and the nonprofits complain about lack of revenue. The sad thing is that none of these events needed to be a dud. They all had started out with […]

Minority-founded SaaS platform Resilia announced $8 million in Series A funding to grow the New Orleans-based company. Funding was led by Santa Monica, Calif.-based Mucker Capital and Callais Capital Management in Thibodaux, La., with participation by Cultivation Capital. Resilia is headquartered in New Orleans, with a second office in New York City. It’s one of […]

A majority of nonprofits across all subsectors expect fundraising will decline through the remainder of 2020, according to a new survey, but few respondents have laid off or furloughed fundraising staff. The 12-page report, “Fundraising Impact of COVID-19,” from CCS Fundraising includes responses from 1,183 nonprofits between April 20 and May 1. Some 63 percent […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on health inequities with disproportionate percentages of low-income Americans, particularly communities of color, contracting and dying from the disease.  Researchers working to better understand the underlying causes of the negative health outcomes across these communities are increasingly focusing on the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, […]

#GivingTuesdayNow prompted a surge of more than an estimated $500 million in online giving on May 5. The day of giving was launched as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19). Initial results from Giving Tuesday’s platform partners suggested that more than $503 million in online donations was generated on […]