Is summer a slow time for your organization? If yes, and if you don’t already have a white board scribbled with ideas or post-its cluttering your monitor, we’re sharing some ideas for how to spend a season that finally has some downtime with this list of summer initiatives.
If you don’t have a crisis communications plan, there’s no better time than the present to start. And if you have one, today is the day that you should dust it off and revise it!
There are a number of wonderful nonprofits that focus on a wide range of issues that support children. In this post, we are sharing just a few community-based organizations that support children’s causes that we think are worth learning more about and are located in cities where Starfish Impact has offices. Based in Los…
The team at Starfish Impact is often asked to by nonprofits to help them find good Board members, and by individuals to help them find meaningful Board positions. We love being the connector and are always happy to connect our friends. (In fact, contact us here if you fall into either of those categories.) But we also are asked a lot of the same questions by younger professionals who are looking to join their first nonprofit Board. In this post, we are sharing the three questions that we always ask to start these conversations with young professionals ready to join a nonprofit Board.
We’re thrilled to share our interview with philanthropic leader, David Greco, Founding Partner of Social Sector Partners. David has been one of the leading voices moving the Real Cost Project conversation further, which you can read more about in this post from earlier this month.
For those of you who haven’t yet heard the term “the real cost” or who could use a little primer on the issue, we believe addressing this hot topic in the social sector is timely and important. The real cost is the concept that we’re not funding the actual cost of the nonprofit work because…