Executive Issues

Is Cost to Raise a Dollar an Important Metric?
September 13, 2019 at 9:40 am

While universal “cost-to-raise-a-dollar” metrics can be debated, one thing that cannot be debated is how funds are used by nonprofits to benefit the communities they serve. What are the actual outcomes? Did the nonprofit improve lives through a variety of verifiable factors?

Buck the Trend and Retain Your Fundraisers
September 9, 2019 at 12:46 pm

If you inspire, trust and lead your staff well, you can and will retain fundraising staff. If our missions deserve increased philanthropy, the teams we’re asking to attract that philanthropy deserve attentive and effective leadership.

Rethink Nonprofit Leadership Styles Now
September 4, 2019 at 11:49 am

Nonprofit leadership has to come into focus. We now live in an age where artificial intelligence is changing the very nature of our work. Nonprofits have to come to terms with substantial changes.

The Rise of Women in Philanthropy
August 29, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Look around you today: It’s becoming increasingly more common to see women hold leadership roles at nonprofit organizations, proving that women play a central role and are becoming more dominant in today’s nonprofit landscape.

How Should Nonprofits Promote Their Value?
August 8, 2019 at 12:19 pm

When evaluating a nonprofit organization’s financial and operational effectiveness, what should we consider? It is the age-old nonprofit conundrum: How do we show our nonprofit value on paper?

How to Realign With Your Nonprofit’s Core Values
July 24, 2019 at 12:45 pm

Core values are an essential aspect of running a nonprofit organization, because they provide the information that the outside world needs to know about what you stand for in the community. Core values help inform people about how your organization behaves from within and outside of itself.

2019 Executive of the Year: Maria C. Freire
July 3, 2019 at 9:22 am

A Latina leader with more than 35 years of experience in business and biomedicine, Maria C. Freire, PhD, has devoted her career and life to the nonprofit sector. She has expertise in technology commercialization and intellectual property management in support of human health...

#NPPTrendingNow Ep 93: What About Overhead?
June 21, 2019 at 12:49 pm

Welcome back to #NPPTrendingNow, a weekly video series where NonProfit PRO Editor-in-Chief Nhu Te breaks down the top three coveted stories of the week. Here's what we've got going on for you this week: the overhead controversy, direct mail for storytelling and the secret sauce to major gifts...