Blue Avocado Recap: November 2024
Find how to include your people and culture into your strategic planning. Nonprofit leaders share the key skills they look for in board members. Is inequality about to become the next major crisis for nonprofits? Discover a guide for recruiting (and keeping) your nonprofit's volunteers.
Food Banks and Food Pantries: Insurance Explained
Food banks and food pantries play a vital role in the health of their communities. What’s important to them about their insurance? We spoke with three nonprofit food banks about it.
From the Claims Files: Embezzlement
Lax financial oversight rarely goes unnoticed, creating enticing opportunities for embezzlement. Are your nonprofit's funds a tempting target?
Blue Avocado Recap: October 2024
Find how a simple newsletter can help keep your board members engaged. Nonprofit leaders share their best fundraising tips. Explore a one-stop spot for 15+ years of nonprofit fundraising articles. Learn eight ways a solid treasurer is key to a successful nonprofit — even for all-volunteer organizations.
California FFA & AB 2496 Explain Like I’m Five (ELI5) FAQ
Factual answers to common questions about California FFAs and AB 2496, with simple, jargon-free language and sourced information.
What’s next for foster families after an insurance shakeup threatens to upend thousands?
With most California foster family agencies (FFAs) in crisis due to a lack of insurance options, Los Angeles area FFAs fear agency closures and displacements may be imminent.
Thousands of foster kids could lose homes over insurance crisis
Bay Area foster family agencies and caregivers face a new reality as a dearth of insurance options threatens many organizations with closure.
From the Claims Files: Personal Use of Nonprofit Vehicles
Allowing someone to use your nonprofit’s vehicle as their personal car means you could be assuming potential risk — whether they go straight home or straight to the bar. Is that a risk worth taking?
Many of California’s foster kids could soon be displaced
With numerous foster family agencies facing closure in California, foster families worry for the kids in their care that may soon be separated from them.
Blue Avocado Recap: September 2024
Learn how nonprofit leaders measure their success. Find out how to get — and keep — your organization's tax-exempt status. Discover an easy-to-use template for creating an accounting practices manual.
Thousands of foster kids in California could lose their homes amid insurance crisis
Without any solutions on the horizon to an impending insurance crisis, California foster family agencies may soon be forced to shutter their operations, potentially displacing the children who depend on their services.
Almost 9,000 children in California foster care could soon be taken from homes over insurance crisis
Foster care providers and children are bracing for an uncertain future as many of California's foster family agencies are likely to lose insurance by the end of September. KPBS' Katie Hyson reports.