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What the Heck is “The Serendipity Economy,” and Why Should We Care?
The insistence on predictive metrics and working with the proven side by side with an interest in innovation leaves many wondering what the heck funders are on about. This blog post from HBR states...
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Does Impact Investment Signal A Paradigm Shift?
Impact investing is very appealing. It provides a financial return on investment and accomplishes a social mission. But is it the paradigm shift we’ve been waiting for?
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Measure for Measure: The Nonprofit Impact Conversation Continues
The “overhead myth” has at last been debunked, and it now seems there’s no nonprofit Holy Grail, either. Which is not to say the sector doesn’t have great stories to tell about outcomes and impact—it’s...
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AG: Motor City Can’t Sell Masterworks to Pay Down Debt
According to Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, Detroit can’t sell works of art from the Detroit Institute of Arts to solve its financial difficulties, even if the city is the owner of the art.
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Three organizations that serve as evaluators and analysts in the nonprofit world have come together to caution against the tendency to overweight overhead when judging grantees.
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Coaching as a Capacity-Building Tool: An Interview with Bill Ryan
For-profits tend to accept the benefits of coaching as a given. Nonprofits, on the other hand, question whether or not coaching actually works, and are more concerned with return on investment. But, as...
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New Study: Low Nonprofit Overhead Does Not = Greater Efficiency
Research reiterates that the focus nonprofits’ overhead costs as a proxy for worthiness is misguided.
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Medium-Sized Charities Most Vulnerable During Recession
UK’s New Philanthropy Group CEO predicts recession-related closures of mid-sized charities, but will the shakeout help or hurt the nonprofit sector?
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The High Hidden Costs of One Organization’s Fundraising
This article spotlights the shocking degree to which operational costs and infrastructure—and sometimes oddly unrelated spending—can devour the donor dollar.
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Field Museum Board of Directors—Did Conflict Obscure Good Decision Making?
The Field Museum of Natural History is going through financial difficulties that some say were presaged in a memorandum sent to the board in 2006 that ended up ignored due to interpersonal politics.
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The Overhead Myth
NPQ is proud to highlight this important letter from GuideStar, Charity Navigator and the Wise Giving Alliance calling for an end to the obsession many have had with nonprofit overhead costs as a proxy...
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Why Can’t We Get Over Overhead?
Outcomes-based metrics may be more accurate and more effective, but they do not speak to the heart the way that program-focused endeavors do.
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Komen: Are We “Over It?”
A cancer survivor speaks out about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, calling founder Nancy Brinker “their biggest liability.” But is the drop in participation in the foundation’s signature three-day walks...
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Komen Cancels 7 Fundraising Walks as Participation Plummets
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has canceled its signature three-day walk in seven metro areas for next year. Despite the cutbacks, a spokesperson for Komen asserts that everything is under control.
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To Disclose, or Not to Disclose; That Is the Question
A number of 501(c)(4)s based in New York State are seeking exemptions from the law that requires them to disclose their well-heeled donors.
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A Museum Works Hard to Find Steady Ground in Milwaukee – It’s Not Easy
Many museums are having a tough go of it right now. The perfect storm often involves shrinking endowments, overspending on facilities, and exhibits that do not pay off. In Milwaukee there’s a...
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Indian Tribes Try to Cope with Shutdown
Columbus Day gives unfortunate glory to the acts of Western Europeans who nearly exterminated the indigenous peoples of the American continent, which Christopher Columbus purportedly “discovered” in...
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Real Nonprofit Execs of the O.C.
Watching the more-moneyed never gets old, but when we do so as regards highly paid execs in this sector, it has a different slant.
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Should New York City Opera Board Be Held Accountable?
You might not go quite as far as Manuela Hoelterhoff’s recommendation that they “should be pilloried,” but you do have to wonder about the board of the New York City Opera.
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NY State/Charity Take Their Time Releasing Prostate Cancer Funding
Eight years after its establishment, the New York State Coalition to Cure Prostate Cancer has disbursed none of the $1.8M it has been given.
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