Editors’ Picks: The Year’s Best Career Resources
Revisit our top advice of 2016 for job-seeking, starting off in a new place, or growing in your current role.
Compassion International donors are inspired by the group’s pictures of where the children they serve sleep.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
How to Make the Most of the Final Fundraising Week of the Year
A collection of advice to help you draw more dollars as the year wanes.
Grant Makers Can Do a Better Job Handling Risk. Here’s How.
Foundations take a variety of steps to assess potential projects and protect resources, but too often they either seek to avoid risk or, worse, fail to acknowledge it.
By Jim Joseph
Contributor
How Foundations Can Ensure Diversity Efforts Include People With Disabilities
10 questions a nonprofit can ask to assess whether its policies and practices promote inclusion.
By Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Contributor
Girl Scouts’ 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave Is Rarity Among Nonprofits
The organization draws strong praise for its benefit to new mothers and fathers, but nonprofits in general still lag far behind the corporate world.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
How Emily’s List Turned Donors’ Attention to Planned Giving
Sensing supporters’ curiosity about legacy gifts, the pro-choice political-action committee surveyed donors and adapted communications to draw more bequests.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How to Build a Communication Plan for a Merger
Two Boston homeless-services charities made sure important constituencies knew about their impending union and got answers to key questions before the merger was made public.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Reaching Out to America’s Emerging Donors
Collections of articles and other resources to help you engage supporters across age, gender, and ethnic lines.
How to Find a Nonprofit Job That Fits
Do the research, ask the right questions, and look for the clues that tell you whether a prospective workplace will be toxic or terrific.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor