Tracy Vanderneck

Nonprofits sometimes venture into areas unrelated to their core missions. Here’s why mission creep happens and what to look out for.

Let’s review a few angles your organization should consider when determining its board compensation policy.

To fundraise for your organization effectively, your mission must be specific, and you must define the right audience.

Let’s take a look at a few Lasso lessons we can apply to help teams with diverse personalities work together.

Here are some things to consider when evaluating your organization’s human resources situation as part of your strategic plan.

Here are several reasons why nonprofits should ditch appeals that employ a piteous or apologetic tone.

Many nonprofits face obstacles in getting board members to help with fundraising. Here are some ways board members can help.

Nonprofits often feel under-resourced and spend their days rushing around. Here is a guide to help your organization stay relevant.

Fundraising to support the missions of nonprofit organizations is a complex proposition. It takes discernment — the ability to determine what types of fundraising are most appropriate for and can be undertaken by your nonprofit with the resources at your disposal.

In part one, I described the difficulties nonprofits are facing trying to comply with the Stop WOKE Act. Now let’s take a deeper look into what complying with this law means for nonprofits with employees doing business in the state — discussing everything from human resources to donor relations.

Recently, companies, nonprofits, schools, schools that are also nonprofits, consultants and educators have been caught in a windstorm of confusion over the implementation of Florida's Individual Freedom Act, aka Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act.

Human-focused fundraising requires inclusivity and equity among everyone involved in the process.

One of the strongest indicators of whether a capital campaign to fund a large project will be successful is the nonprofit organization’s history of successful annual fundraising.

How should you interpret data from several different reports that seem to convey conflicting information? Let’s take a look at three.

Gauging success isn’t necessarily about comparing ourselves with others, but is instead characterized by the effort we make to improve over our own past performance. Fundraising to support the mission of nonprofits is no different.