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Looking Through an Opportunity Lens
Find resources hidden in plain sight. These three youth-serving organizations used an opportunity lens in their search for volunteers and staff.
Building Networks of Opportunity (SSIR)
A range of strategies and tools can help people in poor neighborhoods make the economic, political, and social connections they need for success.
Why America Needs to End Its Opportunity Monopolies
It’s not just that the rich get richer and the poor poorer; it’s that the rich get louder and poor quieter. The case against allowing privilege to compound.
Why nonprofits should hire through a racial justice lens
It’s no surprise that the nonprofit sector has a diversity problem, especially when it comes to nonprofit leadership. Over 80% of all nonprofits have a white executive director, even though many of these nonprofits have committed themselves to ensuring equity.
How RAND Applies an Equity Lens to Research and Analysis
RAND recognizes that serving the public good requires tackling the factors that contribute to inequities head-on. Current projects focus on such issues as environmental racism, mass incarceration, and anti-Asian violence.
Is it possible to measure inequality of opportunity?
In policy and political discourse, ‘equality of opportunity’ is the new motherhood and apple pie. It is often contrasted with equality of outcomes, with the latter coming off worse. Equal...
Can Using a Racial Equity Lens Increase Capital in Communities of Color?
If CDFIs adopt the standard of using appraisals to determine our loan amounts, we would make very few loans in the communities we were founded to serve.
Find a Volunteer Opportunity
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Turning Your Ideas into Learning Opportunities
Earlier in the year, the Center for Nonprofit Excellence asked for your ideas through a survey and an in-person focus group. We got great ideas, including some that are very different than what we’ve done in the past. While we received many suggestions, some trends include: Looking for other ways to support nonprofits, beyond workshops. (See our new program for Read more...
How Can I Find Opportunities to Be Kind?
Thanks for this next question. One of you asked, how can I find opportunities to be kind? And I love that question because there are countless opportunities ...
Opportunities for a Fresh Start on Race (SSIR)
Trabian Shorters of BMe Community explains why, if you really want to make a positive impact, it's important to focus on the positive assets rather than the deficiencies of the people you want to serve.
Top Challenges, Opportunities and Trends for Socially-Minded Brands
Challenges and Opportunities. When it comes to social branding there are two key challenges. First, a company must have a clear definition of its brand and an authentic desire to have a positive impact on the world. For many brands …
How To Leverage Your Nonprofit To Create Job Opportunities
Nonprofits don’t just solve today's problems -- they empower the people who will solve tomorrow’s biggest challenges.
How to pick a post-retirement volunteer opportunity
I plan to retire from my employer of 30-plus years. I’m tired of the long commute, bad management and lack of promotion opportunities. I do want to keep busy, though. I serve as a volunteer photogr…
How Opportunity International Empowers Financial Inclusion T
Opportunity International’s (Opportunity) mission for over five decades has been to reach those living in poverty and offer them access to otherwise unavailable financial opportunities, like loans, savings accounts, and capacity-building services.
6 Tips for Bringing Volunteer Opportunities to Your Company
Get involved in your community at work. These tips will have your managers on board to volunteer in no time.
How to find the right volunteer opportunity in retirement
7 Steps to Finding the Right Volunteer Opportunity
Giving back is such a core part of your well-being and sense of purpose, and it's good for your health. Here are 7 steps to finding the right volunteer opportunity.
Thanksgiving Volunteer Opportunities to Show Your Gratitude
Thanksgiving is a special time of year. It is a time to reflect on all that surrounds us, including our family, our friends, our home and our community. Why not give back to others and to your community by volunteering in some way? If you would like to take the...
Opportunity Works: Four Ways to Help Young Adults Find Pathways to Success
Opportunity Works initiative. Led by JFF in collaboration with the Forum for Community Solutions, the initiative works to bring together a cross-sector collaborative in specific communities to improve outcomes for young people, with special attention paid to those who are homeless, and in or transitioning from the foster care and/or juvenile justice system. Opportunity Works is …
