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Making Donors Organization Builders

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The “starvation cycle” of nonprofit organizations doing more and more with less and less has to end.  But how can nonprofit organizations break out of this cycle when donors won’t fund nonprofit capacity? The news last week that the Boston Foundation will shift the majority of their competitive grants to unrestricted operating support, which in […]

5 Things Board Members Can Do To Build Organizations

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I’ve discussed before how important boards of directors are to the effectiveness of the nonprofit sector. But I think they are particularly critical to overcoming the bias against nonprofit capacity.  Boards of directors are a largely untapped resource available to nonprofits.  If nonprofits could figure out how to tap into the expertise, networks, knowledge and […]