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Nonprofit Infrastructure

Navigating Grants Supporting Advocacy to C(3) and C(4) Organizations with A. Nicole Campbell

Over the next two weeks at the Non Profit Build Up, we will be exploring advocacy through grantmaking to charities and social welfare organizations. This week’s episode is an information-packed session led by Build Up’s CEO (and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ General Counsel), A. Nicole Campbell, and RPA’s Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Renee Karibi-Whyte. This presentation was originally recorded as a webinar in March 2022. It is the first part of a two-part series.

Nic provides guidance on how to support and structure grants to projects and programs containing advocacy, form successful partnerships within organizations engaged in advocacy, and engage in grant making to (for-profit and nonprofit) organizations engaged in advocacy. You won’t want to miss it.

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The Role of Technology In Infrastructure with A. Nicole Campbell 

Have you thought about the way technology is impacting your infrastructure?

Are you certain that the way your organization views and uses technology is not weakening your infrastructure?

You see, technology is about more than just having the latest app. It’s also a critical way to share information and resources with vulnerable communities that need them most. And we cannot close the digital divide (or the wealth and the equity gap) without leveraging it to strengthen our infrastructure.

In this episode, Nic shares 4 key considerations about technology that inform nonprofit needs, practices, and ultimately, culture and policy.

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Receiving and Managing Significant Grants With Organizational Integrity with A. Nicole Campbell 

Do you think your nonprofit infrastructure allows you to seamlessly receive and manage significant grants? We spend a lot of time talking about good grant making, but not as much time talking about good grant “receiving.”

This week’s episode talks how to receive and manage significant grants with organizational integrity.

Having built infrastructure for nonprofits all over the world to receive and manage significant grants, Nic shares her 3 recommendations to design an infrastructure that allows an organization’s values to confidently guide how that organization accepts funding.

How are you managing and receiving grants?

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How To Successfully Form A Corporate Partnership with A. Nicole Campbell 

Many for-profit companies are getting involved in supporting change, *especially* throughout the holiday season; and it’s something your organization might be interested in!

Do you know which you one(s) should be working with? How to strengthen your partnership(s)? How to remain compliant with nonprofit laws while partnering with a for-profit company?

Having structured many of these partnerships, Nic knows that regardless of the amount of leverage or resources you bring to a partnership, you should control key aspects of the partnership.

In this episode, Nic talks about how to successfully form a corporate partnership; sharing 2 considerations to help guide how you engage with corporate partners.

Strong partnerships can have strong impact and change the narrative and course for so many communities. So, let’s make sure they are built well.

What do you think about corporate partnerships?

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The Importance of Infrastructure In Fundraising and Development with A. Nicole Campbell 

Do you know what strengthens fundraising and development efforts?

Knowing your organization’s infrastructure.

And we have seen organizations with a firm grasp on their organizational infrastructure needs fare considerably better than organizations that are unaware.

Why should you think about building infrastructure when you are fundraising or engaged in development?

In this episode, Nic gives you 3 reasons why you need to pay critical attention to your infrastructure if you want to secure funding; all based on her time as counsel with a fundraising nonprofit and global funders as well as her work as an advisor to nonprofit organizations globally.

How are you using infrastructure in your fundraising and development efforts?

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