Jacque McLaughlin, executive director of Gilead House, shares her thoughts about the remarkable work they're doing in Marin County.
Who is responsible to ensure that nonprofits operate most efficiently? While the great majority of people in the nonprofit world are good people, this doesn't necessarily mean that the financial system is functioning most effectively.
Whether for-profit or nonprofit, a group that goes right from problem statement to the specification, design and building of a product misses the boat.
Like any healthy coupling, the recipe to a happy, long-term business relationship between a non-profit organization and its corporate volunteers and donors is commitment, communication and compromise, with a large dose of appreciation sprinkled on top.
To celebrate her 29th birthday, San Francisco resident, storyteller, landscape architect, urban designer, writer, athlete and born risk-taker Sarah Peck has thrown down the gauntlet.
There is only one person we at Taproot believe can lead this nation forward. He is a man who cares deeply about our nation and sees the potential in every American.
Why do our nonprofits continue to report having less money to provide the services our society has counted on them to deliver?
If you ask just about any philanthropist, from big-time givers to Joanne Q. Public, they'll tell you there are "too many non-profits." They need to me...
There is a growing disconnect between the public's perception of their individual micro-actions of giving and how that connects toward a tangible outcome: new treatments for these incurable diseases.
As Gloria Steinem put it, "We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs." But in our time-pressed daily lives, it's hard to make conscious choices whenever we go shopping.
You have been thinking about how great it might be to follow your passion and work for a non-profit. You fantasize about working with people just like yourself who are passionate about what they do. Sounds great, but is it reality?
Here's a six-step playbook on reaching out and raising money from the crowd. So, turn on your computer, open a web browser and pour a cup of coffee.
When Pando Projects founder Milena Arciszewski, was a Kiva Fellow in Africa, she witnessed the importance of funding smaller local initiatives rather ...
I believe this can lay a foundation for how countless nonprofits can use Twitter going foward. Not simply as a place to post, but rather as a platform to participate.
I've been reviewing a lot of grants applications over the past year. So what does a deserving application look like? Here are five characteristics of a worthwhile project:
Do bankers lend money to those who don't need it? The topic was the so-called 'Equity Gap in America.' The group pointed to the difficulty new nonprofits have in seeking working capital to fund their enterprises.
As a gallery, museum, and public artist with 30 years of professional experience , I took an especially keen interest in the issue as to whether Los Angeles should close their community art centers.
Chile is one of the top topics trending on Twitter. But Twitter also reveals sentiments that its socially driven donation network is getting tired with some users tweeting "we have to donate to Chile too?"
Susan decided to take action and started to research what people on the streets need. She even sent me links to information that I didn't know. She planned on filling up her car and driving to a park to help.
A half-century ago, Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote Gifts from the Sea, bestseller in which she described what we as individuals can take away from our times of quiet reflection along the shore.
The forty years between Kennedy and Clinton were an accident of economic and demographic history, resulting in a temporary but highly profitable industry structure for the papers that dominated their markets.
So where does your gift have the most impact? How do you find that group of people working to fix that issue you most care about? Here are some great tools for navigating the non-profitsphere.
Social capital allows us to invest in the future of society in areas we are passionate about and in those we strongly believe will make a difference in our society.
When people say the arts are irrelevant, I have to disagree; the arts are simply too expensive.
Alayna Kassan and Cynthia Dressel met in 1999. Each had successfully fought Hodgkins Disease. In 2002, they donated $20,000 to the Lymphoma Research Foundation -- Presents For Purpose was born.
