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This Organization’s Demise Has Lessons for All Nonprofits
When nonprofits adhere too strongly to the notion that boards should keep their distance from management, it can lead to irretrievable losses.
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Legal Aid Takes a Step up in the 2014 Appropriations Deal
For the first time in a long time, the budget of the federal Legal Services Corporation is seeing a small but noteworthy uptick. However, this increase in FY2014 is still millions of dollars short of...
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Doing Business with the Government: Administrative Challenges Faced by...
Nonprofits face many administrative challenges on a day-to-day basis, ranging from managing donations and fundraising relationships to making sure the bills are paid. However, those organizations...
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Is a Volunteer an Insider or Outsider Candidate for CEO?
As senior positions turn over at large nonprofits, a number of competing logics are in play regarding appropriate replacements. Should the person be a business whiz? There’s a proven quality in an...
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Will Detroit Foundations Save the Nation’s Largest Black Museum, Too?
Detroit’s Wright Museum houses the nation’s largest African-American historical collection. Will the Wright also be saved in the Detroit fiscal bailout, or will it be a museum “stepchild” overlooked in...
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Founders Who are Effective Over Time: Their Characteristics
Is founders’ syndrome dependent on personal and organizational characteristics? This research, looking at world-class programs where founders have remained involved over decades, suggests it may be.
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Community Action Agencies: Too Often in News for Wrong Stuff
Prominent press mentions of community action agencies with financial troubles due to charges of mismanagement obscures the amazing poverty-fighting work of so many of these nonprofits.
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Have Progressives Forgotten Campaign Finance Reform?
Democrats have long championed campaign finance reform, but with super PACs helping President Obama win in 2012, will their concerns about big money eroding democracy fade?
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Taxation, the Fiscal Cliff and Mr. Buffett
In a New York Times editorial, Warren Buffett suggests that the U.S. should tax the wealthy more and, despite debt talk, should continue to spend more than it takes in in revenues.
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The Nonprofit Version of a Powerball Win
Just as a really big lottery win can have devastating effects on the winner, that really big grant you dream about may also come with some unintended consequences.
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COF’s Business Model Turnaround: A Pretty Penny’s Worth
The Council on Foundations lost a chunk of change during the recession; time for a new business/program model!
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House Adjourns With No Vote on Sandy Relief
Last week the Senate approved a $60.4 billion aid package for hurricane Sandy relief for the East Coast, legislation but House Republican Leadership failed to act on it before closing the legislative...
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Getting What You Pay for in Trustees: A Terrifying Case Study
This behavioral health provider in Baltimore exhibits with breathtaking thoroughness why nonprofits need attentive independent governance systems.
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Two New Studies Signal Nonprofits’ Role in Economic Growth
Recent studies in Philadelphia and North Carolina attest to the value of nonprofits in propelling economic progress and providing an important alternative to free market systems.
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Sloppy Financial Management? The Whole Sector Suffers
Do Massachusetts nonprofits need more regulation? Findings of financial mismanagement at Somerville, Mass. agency trigger calls for increased oversight.
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Charging your Starbucks on the Company Account? Very Entrepreneurial
The Entrepreneurs’ Foundation has filed suit against the former director, Diane Solinger, who is now an employee of—wait for it—Google’s corporate social responsibility office.
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If your organization doesn't conduct an annual audit, here's what you should be doing to maintain public trust and financial accountability.
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Should Your Nonprofit Build an Endowment?
Most nonprofits dream, at some point, about that endowment that would ensure their stability from year to year. But endowments aren’t for every nonprofit. This article walks the reader through their up...
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How to Steal from a Nonprofit: Who Does It and How to Prevent It
Is it easier to steal from a nonprofit organization than from a business? That’s what some researchers have speculated. To identify how people steal from nonprofits and how to prevent it, we turned to...
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Nonprofit Aiding Kids of Prisoners Sees Success, But Funding Does Not Follow
In El Paso, Texas, Community Solutions has a strong track record of helping the children of prisoners avoid their parent’s path, but as its federal funding dies, the nonprofit is struggling.
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