The Magpie

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Our 2024 Holiday Gift from our nonprofit to yours.

Last updated June 18, 2025.

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*Legislation to Watch*

• HR 9495

  • “Charity & Security Network Opposes Legislation that Targets Charities”, April 2024

  • “HR 9495: Bill Threatening Nonprofits Passes House”, November 2024

 

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Antiracism

• Do the Work! An Antiracist Activity Book by W. Kamau Bell & Kate Schatz

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Board Standards & Management

• Management

• • Risk Assessment: A Template for Nonprofit Boards

 

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Due Diligence & Ethical Standards

• Anti-terrorism

• • “Charity & Security Network Opposes Legislation that Targets Charities”, April 2024

 

• The Nonprofit Industrial Complex

  • “Social Service or Social Change?” by Paul Kivel, 2020

 

• Power

• • “Founder’s Syndrome: Impact and Recovery”: Management Library, July 2023

  • “Power Causes Brain Damage”: The Atlantic, 2017

  • “Ten Steps to Overcome Nonprofit Founder’s Syndrome”: Funding for Good, June 2023

 

• Priviledge

• • “Are you engaging in Toxic Niceness and perpetuating inequity? 7 questions to ask yourself”: Nonprofit AF, September 2024

 

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Fundraising & Development

• Fundraising

• • “Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) and changing the sector”: Community-centric Fundraising, 2024

 

• Strategic Planning

• • The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution: La Piana Consulting, 2019

  • Standards for Excellence Self-Assessment: Maryland Nonprofits

  • Youth Climate Action Fund: Bloomberg Philanthropies

 

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Organization-building

• Meetings & collaborations

• • “27 Principles of Facilitation from Decades of Practice – In person and Remote (with Alix Dunn)”: 2022

 

• Infrastructure

• • “Liberating Structures”

  • “Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle?”: Social Impact Architects, June 2022

    • Provides a breakdown of the nonprofit lifecycle. Useful to evaluate support capacity for fiscal projects

 

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Project Management

• RAG Status

• • “What is RAG Status Reporting in Project Management?”

 

• Working groups

• • Culture Calls: New Yorkers for Culture & Arts

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