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The job market increasingly calls for fast learning abilities and interdisciplinary knowledge. Check out these five ways you can foster your own, and your staff’s continued learning on the Nonprofit Hub blog. https://hubs.li/Q02nmTVB0

Need to revitalize a longstanding online community? Check out my brand new FREE course to help you move through the process of pumping new energy into your community!

Find out how to create a climate that helps individuals benefit from the diversity of people, ideas, knowledge, and experience that will bring success to your nonprofit. DEI is about providing access, opportunity, and support to your organization and the people you serve. Learn how to build unity in your nonprofit organization by embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion. Amira Barger, MBA,CVA,CFRE is one of the nation’s leading specialists on DEI. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eFaPrajK

The "Are the Children Well?" report emphasizes growth opportunities within our community to ensure children and families thrive. A critical aspect of achieving this goal is ensuring adults have stable employment and financial security. To address this, our Community Action Plan includes a focused strategy on Workforce Development and Financial Stability. Here’s how you can contribute: - Support the United Way's Financial Stability fund by donating. Your contribution helps nonprofits offer adult education programs. - Back local libraries and community centers that provide job skills and financial literacy courses. - Advocate for expanded employee benefits and resources at your workplace. - Champion workforce training initiatives in high schools.

Are education nonprofits worth our support and resources? 💭 Witnie A. Martinez, Ed.S. raises a crucial question about the vital role they play in our schools and communities. New episode of Our Classroom 2/28.

To transform how your community engages with you and your work, consider listening before you act.     In 2019 and 2020, Mission Partners served as the messaging and communications partner for NewsMatch—the largest grassroots fundraising campaign designed to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Through research, collaborative strategizing, and community listening, their fundraising goals exceeded the years prior despite the pandemic and politically charged attacks on the free press.     What might your community be trying to tell you that could drive your mission to new heights?    🔹Read more about our work with NewsMatch: https://lnkd.in/eXWx4tAX  🔹Learn more about how Mission Partners can help you build community engagement: https://lnkd.in/e-p458pc 

Did you know that in 2024, the United States boasts almost 1.9 million nonprofit organizations and growing? With 24 million employees and 77 million volunteers annually, the sector’s impact is immense. But if we do the math, my research and that of others shows that about 1.7 million nonprofit Board Chairs are lacking any form of onboarding to help them be effective in their role. Imagine how we could change the sector if this gap was proactively addressed and Board Chairs given the tools they need to succeed!

Fundraisers, what's one thing you wish nonprofit leaders and board members better understood? I'll go first: 👉 Results require an investment - both time and money - in people, training, technology, and of course relationships.

For wealthy parents seeking to help their children learn about personal finances and family goals, there are unique challenges but also time-tested solutions. Alyson Wise, Family and Philanthropy Advisor at Bessemer, discusses both in this video: https://lnkd.in/e5y5vPPF

For highly educated, highly indebted nonprofit workers, PSLF can be "a light at the end of the tunnel." Check out these highlights from our latest webinar, and join us in thanking Dr. LaTonya Henderson, Carli Coyne Reddy, CSLP, and Michaela (Noé) Rubin for sharing their insights!