The California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) has teamed up with its member food banks, the California Budget & Policy Center and California State Assembly member Buffy Wicks to launch “Everyone to the Table.” The multi-lingual campaign is geared toward raising awareness of food insecurity within California, and provide ways that those concerned can be […]

On one side of the mid-sized nonprofits honored in NPT Best Nonprofits to Work For competition sits their smaller counterparts, those with 49 or fewer employees. They are small enough to give outsized operational roles to staff but might not have the funds for major initiatives. On the other side is the large Best Nonprofits […]

Employee participation in nonprofit 403(b) retirement plans inched upward during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching its highest level since tracking began in 2008, due in part to automatic enrollment, which has increased 50% during the past five years. Overall retirement plan participation rose to 77.2% in 2020, up from 76.6% in 2019 and 72% in 2018. […]

The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities in Washington, D.C. and Milwaukee, Wisc. and the New York City-based Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services have completed their merger and rebranding. The resulting organization, rebranded as Social Current, is headquartered in Washington D.C. The merger is the result of a year’s worth of exploratory […]

It’s not all puppy dogs and ice cream, even at the Best Nonprofits. The United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Section (USTA MAS) rarely has any voluntary turnover among its 21 employees. But like at many nonprofits, the pandemic forced difficult decisions at USTA MAS. The Herndon, Va.-based organization laid off about one-third of its staff […]

COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States during 2020, with heart disease and cancer in their usual positions in the top two spots, respectively. The nation’s death rate increased during 2020 for the first time since 2017, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). […]

The consolidation of fundraising agencies continues as international agency Thompson Habib Denison (THD) in Lincoln, Mass., was acquired by constituent experience management (CXM) company Moore. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Moore now has at least 40 companies under its umbrella with more than 3,000 employees. THD will continue to be led by Jay […]

Facebook will match up to $8 million during GivingTuesday, with a slightly different matching scenario to help spread the wealth to more organizations. Marcy Scott Lynn, Social impacts partnership lead at Facebook, led a virtual session titled “Using Facebook and Instagram This GivingTuesday and Beyond” during the recent GivingTuesday Summit, ahead of GivingTuesday on Nov. […]

Good news, you’ve received a $1,000 contribution from a generous donor. Of course, as a responsible and caring nonprofit manager, you’ll send a gracious acknowledgement of the donation. It’s not just good manners, it’s good development practice to let donors know that their money is going to work for things they care about—and that your […]

How many emails should nonprofits send? As many as you can make interesting, according to Woodrow Rosenbaum. He is chief data officer for the GivingTuesdayData Commons. Rosenbaum emphasized the points that the past several years have been anything but typical for fundraising but also that organizations must not be shy about asking for donations — […]

Nonprofit job growth slowed in September with the first overall monthly loss of 2021 bringing to an end eight consecutive months of job gains. Overall, nonprofits lost an estimated 2,499 workers compared to August, representing an additional loss of about 0.4% over the 557,000 jobs still lost as of August. It’s only the third time […]