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January 13, 2026
People Helping People
Explore how COPO grew out of community need and became a hub for people helping people
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February 5, 2026
2026 Nonprofit Trends: Challenges, Innovations, and the Capital Needed to Sustain Community Impact
In 2025, I wrote a love letter to nonprofits, thanking them for invaluable contributions to our society during an incredibly difficult time Looking...
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January 20, 2026
4 Realistic Actions Funders Can Take Right Now
In a recent blog post, we shared 4 key steps nonprofit leaders can take to manage this moment We now turn to funders – many of whom are asking us a...
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January 20, 2026
Rooted in Place: What Our Survey Data Found About Nonprofit Real Estate Ownership
By better understanding the factors that influence nonprofit facility ownership, we can make better decisions about how to support nonprofits in...
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March 2, 2022
A Conversation with Samip Mallick of the South Asian American Digital Archive
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in humanities They use...
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March 1, 2022
Our Strategic Innovation Fund: How Unrestricted Funding Opened Up New Ways of Working with Community-Centered Nonprofits
In 2020, MacKenzie Scott and the Ford Foundation provided substantial unrestricted grants to NFF – grants that seeded our Strategic Innovation...
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February 23, 2022
A Conversation with Mills Kelly of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in the humanities They use...
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February 16, 2022
A Conversation with Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Humanities Commons
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in the humanities They use...
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February 8, 2022
A Conversation with Zachary Kaplan of Rhizome
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in the humanities They use...
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December 16, 2021
BMe, Rising Together: A “Fam” of Black Nonprofit Leaders
It should come as no surprise that the organization founded by Trabian Shorters – who coined the term Asset-Framing to describe people by their...
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September 29, 2021
What we can do with $450,000
It costs $450,000 per year to keep one woman jailed in New York City That startling statistic came up in a gathering of human services organizations...
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June 18, 2021
Advancing Resilience and Community Health
Lessons Learned from Partnerships Between Networks of Community-Based Organizations and Healthcare Organizations The Advancing Resilience and...
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June 10, 2021
A Community-First Nonprofit Responds to COVID: “We’re a speed boat, not a steam ship”
A Conversation with Tree House Books Tree House Books has a vision: that every child in Philadelphia has access to books, and an opportunity to...
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June 8, 2021
A Community Nonprofit Meets Urgent Needs and Plans for West Philadelphia’s Future
A conversation with Belmont Alliance Civic Association CDC Belmont Alliance Civic Association, CDC, (BACA, CDC) is a 30-year-old nonprofit based in...
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October 9, 2020
God’s Love We Deliver
Financial modeling for medically tailored meals
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October 5, 2020
FathersRead365
Teaching reading and learning to lead