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They embody our best spirit and values, and infuse our communities with far-reaching benefits. They heal, educate, shelter, protect, and nurture our humanity. And nothing drives us more at Innovative Resources Group than building on this power to affect change, improve lives, and influence public policy.
We're celebrating 21 busy years of strengthening a wide range of nonprofit organizations, enhancing their ability to achieve vital missions and to sustain this achievement over time. We call this “capacity building,” and never in history has the need for nonprofit capacity building and organizational effectiveness been more essential than right now.
Even in a period of economic stress, people still give. According to Giving USA, total estimated charitable giving rose 3.8 percent last year—after 2 years of declines. We believe this is because nonprofits are the face of our community, champions of the common good. Donors and volunteers—people—want to make a difference. WE DO TOO.
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NEWS! from the world of nonprofit advancement.
‘Open Source’ Ideas for Nonprofits
Open-source technology thrives by letting anybody know how it works and encouraging them to come up with new ideas and to tailor software to their own needs.
Could your nonprofit work the same way?
Any organization can, said Rebecca Suehle, a writer and editor at the open-source software company Red Hat, in a session Saturday at the South by Southwest Interactive conference.
“Just be open, that’s the lesson here, but it sounds scary,” she said, because many organizations are built to keep their work to themselves and out of the hands of competitors.
