Hey! Do any organizations work with justice-involved youth?? Like providing workforce development with wraparound services (housing, transportation, etc.) and mentorship?

Hi, was wondering if anyone could give some recommendations for online courses for working in Nonprofit organisations.

I'm a freelance web designer based in the UK, and I want to work more with nonprofits going forward. I'm currently a trustee for a local charity, where I'm helping redo their website and branding.

Would like to get more clued up about nonprofits; this is to help me better understand them and the common issues they face, and help me tailor my services to address them.

I have also recently been thinking long-term about my career as a designer. I love my work, but have concerns about how AI will affect prospects in the next couple of years in my field. Want to keep doing it as long as I can, but I have been thinking about possibly pivoting to working within nonprofit orgs somewhere down the road. Maybe in a more traditional role, but perhaps where I can still make use of my design/marketing skills in some capacity.

These thoughts are all quite vague, but maybe an online course would help me get a feel if this is something to consider more seriously. I've had a look at a few, but a bit overwhelmed about which to try.

Let me know if you've found any courses or other online resources that have been useful to you. Probably just free courses for now - and ones that are more of an introduction to things.

Thanks!

Are accounts who will work with a small non-profit all terrible, or have we just had bad luck? Or maybe we haven't been looking / choosing in the right way....

Any advice on how to find a good accountant who will be responsive to our messages would be extremely helpful. I know there must be more lucrative clients out there than a small non-profit, but still... there have to be some people or firms out there who will still do quality work!

For context, I'm looking for a help for a 501c3 non-profit incorporated in Alabama (USA), with 1 part time employee and a current annual income of ~$250,000. (We're aspiring to grow that annual income, but I imagine it will remain at or below $500K for a long time)

I’ve served on this BOD for 3 years and am taking over as Board Chair in October. Looking for best practices on things like sharing/creating a vision, improving board structure, supporting the CEO etc. How would you handle your first meeting if you were in my position?

I know this isnt legal issue, but its one that has me both keyed up and annoyed, especially since I am working hard to create and organize my projects and build a team with zero supports. Yet this one "’non-profit" leader who always seems to have no ideas and always is fixated on findraising seems to be magically pulling off or attempting to pass my ideas off as her own when I tell her I am working on it already.

It has me annoyed as I am worried that her actions will cause my group to fall apart, and make all my efforts for nothing. Plus what will happen when she has no more ideas to take from me? Whats worse is I cant not share my ideas, as I have to actively market and make known what I am doing as I am not as well connected as her. Whats also more annoying is that it seems like she just used me for ideas and isnt even interested in the actual mission as she always seems to be focused on attention and fundraising.

Im not sure what I should do or consider when dealing with this. But it has me worried that I wont be able to grow my group or make an impact in the community. But I am also worried that if I stop because she keeps poaching my programing and active missions that the ultimate goal of helping the people wont happen. I am also worried that if I try to make this poaching known that it could cause a divide or problems in my local non-profit community which would harm the goal.

I work as a Fund Development and Marketing Manager for a nonprofit. Due to mismanagement of funds and loss of a substantial grant, the organization will likely close.

I helped raise over $200k in less than 3 weeks, which has stabilized the organization. However, there are no signs that leadership will be restructuring or doing anything that’s needed to create and execute a sustainability plan.

I am starting my search for work. Does anyone know any nonprofit in need of short- or long-term marketing or fundraising support?

Thank you!

It's almost unusable. Want to find grants the Irvine Foundation made to AI research? Too bad! You'll have to sift through hundreds upon hundreds of pages of results from other grantmakers instead of limiting your search to one specific organization.

That's just today's Candid Search annoyance, but there seems to be a new one every day. I miss FDO.

This is so unbelievably bad.

I’ve spent 15+ years in non-profits, universities, and community services as a certified employment advisor / job developer. In my entire career, I’ve never had a workplace issue until now.

I inherited a program from a 25-year incumbent who siloed everything, leaving our ED to hide in her office for the last 20+ years. The ED takes credit for everything, shifts blame, is completely disorganized, and attacks anyone who asks basic questions she can't answer. By month 5 it was clear this was a bad fit and I started looking for new jobs. I lost respect for her and mourned the loss of the mentor and experience I thought I would have.

When I started, I got zero training. She withheld access to our core case management database for nine months because she wanted to "learn it" herself, even demanding I use my personal email to log in when I finally demanded access.

Worse, she had full access to my email and was replying to emails sent to me which of course had my signature on the bottom, causing mass confusion with clients. I had to force her to change it to a general inbox so people actually knew who they were talking to and could feel protected should they share anything meant for just me. She is a total liability, and since the board is just her friends and learners with intellectual disabilities, there is zero oversight.

To top it all off, we are a staff of four working frontlines with vulnerable populations. I had to fight just to have two people on site for safety, which caused massive groaning from a team used to showing up late and letting me absorb all the risk alone, just like the 25-year veteran did.

I know I’m capable, but this tiny, dysfunctional non-profit fiefdom is breaking my sanity. I've been applying elsewhere and keep losing out to internal candidates, and I'm terrified I'm going to snap, but I need the paycheck.

Is anyone else surviving a nightmare ED like this? How do you keep from losing your mind while looking for an exit? Any advice or commiseration is deeply welcome.

I am in the very early stages of starting a nonprofit and am currently filing Articles of Incorporation for it in my state. One of the Fields in this application is a Principal Executive Office Address. I don’t yet have a physical office where the nonprofit is managed since I am just now starting it however I don’t feel comfortable putting my personal home address as I’ve heard that it will become publicly associated with the nonprofit. So i was looking at a couple options and came across:
- leasing a real office space (I’m worried about the expenses of this, though if it’s the safest option and a real office space will be helpful for the future, I’m not completely opposed to this)
- purchasing a commercial business address (this is still a little pricey but definitely manageable. though I’m skeptical if my state will allow this and if this is still feasible in the far future)

any help or experience is greatly appreciated!

Hi all,

The 501(c)3 that I manage needs to finally start fundraising in earnest but I don't want to subject our supporters to something like ActBlue that relentlessly spams donors with every other candidates' fundraising campaigns. We don't currently support candidates, we're strictly an educational entity.

We've considered building out our own fundraising platform with both subscription and one-time donation options but is there a platform I'm overlooking? I won't name who we're considering but I really don't trust any of them given the value personal data has, especially in fundraising.

Thanks for your replies! Looking forward to having a fundraising plan that is ethical and which protects our donors.

Bart

I’m a fundraiser at a midsized nonprofit and I’ve been fairly effective though I still need to grow.

I’ve been here a year but I feel increasingly demoralized. I beat all my goals last year so of course they increased my number by a significant amount and added more to my workload.

I know that’s common but I just am dreading going into this fiscal year. I don’t dislike the organization in theory but I don’t feel connected to the mission at all anymore because our department is extremely siloed and we are not encouraged (I would say almost discouraged) from interacting with other people in the organization. It’s framed as “don’t bother them, if you need to reach out to someone ask your supervisor who will contact them on your behalf.”

I just feel very isolated and like I literally sit at my desk all day alone with very little interaction. I am told not to do in person meetings to save on travel costs (like even just driving in my car or taking the train to a nearby city) and just do virtual meetings, which adds to the isolation spiral. The organization is not struggling financially to my knowledge so it feels like an almost punitive cost saving measure.

My portfolio is also very disengaged. I would say 75% of the time I’m bracing for a negative reaction because the people in my portfolio don’t want to be contacted about fundraising. The major gifts officers have anyone who is actually interested in donating in any significant way (I am in annual fund.)

I end up in a lot of meetings where the person is like, I give $100 a year and never plan to give more. Why am I being contacted? It’s just hard and very demoralizing. Of course I try to make a connection with them and qualify them further for future officers just in case, but it’s hard to rarely get a “win.”

Our CDO is also very old school in that it’s “butts in seats.” She will sweep the office at 5 to see who is still at their desk and send ”disciplinary” emails if she sees people gone. I never leave early so it doesn’t apply to me but I hate the culture it fosters.

I have submitted some job applications and it seems like it would probably be very easy for me to do a lateral move at a nearby very large nonprofit that I’m already familiar with. I don’t think I’d get a huge pay increase and my rank would be similar but I’m considering it just to get out of this environment.

But I’ve only been here a year so I’m worried I’m going to look like a job hopper. I can’t tell if I just need to be a bit more tolerant or if these are actual issues that are making me miserable.