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By Dr. Alicia Schatteman The two most significant events that affected, or are affecting, nonprofits in 2020 was the killing of George Floyd and the
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By Dr. Alicia Schatteman It’s hard to underestimate the importance of the holiday season for most nonprofit organizations, especially during COVID19. About 70 percent of Americans
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By Dr. Alicia Schatteman Nonprofit capacity broadly refers to a number of different organizational dimensions related to the processes, practices, and people that the organization
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By Dr. Alicia Schatteman Volunteers are important to almost all nonprofit organizations because they extend the work of paid staff or in some cases, are
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The Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies grew out of a university-wide strategic planning initiative in the fall of 2007 where faculty and staff could
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By Dr. Alicia Schatteman The mythic Horatio Alger narrative of pulling one’s self up by one’s bootstraps is one of the most dangerous and damaging
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By Dr. Alicia Schatteman Every nonprofit strategic plan that was to cover the year 2020 is obsolete, or is it? Strategic planning is a process
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