July 2018
Sheer Shareables
Information & Resources for Non-Profits and Those who ๐Ÿ’“ Them  
Grant Seeking Efforts and Agency Budget Size
Ellen Mowrer gleans data from the Spring 2018 State of Grantseeking Survey in her blog for Guidestar to discuss why she thinks that annual budget size may well be the most useful criteria as "the grantseeking experiences of an all-volunteer organization with a $50,000 budget are very different from an organization with a $5 million budget."
The Impact of Board Diversity

The Impact of Diversity report from the  Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy , in partnership with  BoardSource  and Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates
finds that nonprofit boards with higher levels of gender, age, and ethnic/racial diversity tend to have more engaged members.


What We Really Want to Write in Grant Proposals!
As someone who has been submitting grant proposals for over 20 years, I could relate well to this article!
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Nonprofits are America's Third Largest Sector in Workforce

Nonprofits are most often equated with social impact, but a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society shows that nonprofits also have a powerful impact on America's economy, as nonprofits employ more workers in all other American industries, except for retail trade and manufacturing.
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