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Nonprofit Leaders Have the Power to Create Capacity Funding

Nonprofit Leaders Have the Power to Create Capacity Funding

October 13, 2016 By Nell Edgington

I was in a meeting with a group of nonprofit leaders the other day, and one of them voiced an often-heard complaint: “There just aren’t many foundations funding nonprofit capacity building.” I was instantly reminded of my mother’s admonishment when I would come home from school with complaints about a classroom rule or a frustrating teacher. She would say, “Well, […]

How Is Nonprofit Overhead Still a Thing?

June 23, 2016 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Lest you think we’ve made headway on overcoming the Overhead Myth (the false notion that nonprofits must keep their fundraising and administrative costs cripplingly low) you need only look as far as a recent Forbes article, “5 Nonprofit Leaders Share How to Keep Overhead Costs to a Minimum.” And this is perhaps even worse because it is nonprofit leaders themselves, […]

5 Priceless Gifts A Board Member Can Give Her Nonprofit

May 28, 2013 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Board members sometimes stand in the way of a what their nonprofit needs most. I’ve talked before about the meaningless at best and destructive at worst distinction between “overhead” and “program” dollars. And board members often are as bad as donors at forcing nonprofits to ignore the very real costs of the work they do […]

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