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Marrying Mission with Strategic Planning & Evaluation
People don’t serve on an organization’s board of directors because they love strategic planning, but such planning falls squarely within a board member’s responsibilities. Two organizations on two...
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Why Does NYU President Face “No Confidence” Vote?
New York University President John Sexton looks to turn NYU into a global brand, but faculty members say he is placing financial concerns ahead of educational concerns.
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Do Nonprofits Really Limit Advertising Because of Pressure to Cut Overhead?
The writings of observers like Dan Pallotta suggest that nonprofits shy away from investing in advertising because of pressures to limit their overhead. Ohio State University accounting professor...
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Debatable: How Nonprofit Are Nonprofit Hospitals?
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that nonprofit hospitals average 7.5 percent of operating costs devoted to charity care and community benefit—based on the hospitals’ own self-reported...
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Nonprofits need profit—but how much do they need in order to prevent the steady erosion of the quality of their output? The author presents a theory-based model for capital investment.
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Community Servings of Boston: A Successful Counterintuitive Approach to...
Just as Community Servings of Boston was facing increased demand and paying higher costs to feed more people, they were confronted by an economic downturn. How did they make it through? Careful...
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Finding the Right Development Officer for Your Organization: Part 2
Following up from her column last week, Simone Joyaux presents three dozen questions to ask in your search for your next fundraiser.
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The Italian Foundation at the Heart of the Monte dei Paschi Bank Crisis
It’s quite amazing that there are 88 foundations in Italy with major holdings in scores of large banks, but in some cases, they are under pressure from national and extra-national bodies to loosen...
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What’s in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Nonprofits?
Today’s Congressional consideration of and possible vote on the fiscal 2014 federal appropriations bill will be historic. For the first time in many years, the federal government will operate under...
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The Four Horsemen of the Nonprofit Financial Apocalypse
A Timely Reprint from the NPQ Archives NPQ has done any number of stories recently on nonprofits, their buildings, their debt, and finally the restructuring they are doing in the wake of the...
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LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art Comes Back from the Brink
After years of tumultuous leadership, financial problems and being picked over by rival institutions as a possible merger partner, MOCA is back on track and on a sustainable path, say its leaders.
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Opportunities and Challenges for Nonprofits in California’s Budget Surplus
CalNonprofits’ Sacramento lobbyist lays it all out for the Golden State’s nonprofits.
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Detroit Symphony Doing Well after Strike Resolution
Classical music companies are struggling across the United States to remake their business models. The Hawaii Symphony, the New York Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony have all...
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Local TV Links High CEO Salaries to a United Way Campaign
Though they are achingly repetitive and generally very badly done, nonprofit salary “investigations” are a reality of nonprofit life, but we can’t recall having seen this strategy taken before.
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Small Survey of Foundations on “Hot Button Issues” Shows Little Hysteria
The findings from a recent survey of private foundation donors reveal that many foundations are not very alarmed by the current array of philanthropic "hot button" issues.
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Congressional Investigations of Nonprofit Diversions of Assets Likely
Senator Grassley and Senator Coburn seem to have read the Washington Post investigations of nonprofit diversions of assets. Neither is likely to let the item pass without first convening congressional...
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Atheists Say Churches Should Have to File Form 990s
American Atheists is challenging the IRS in federal court, saying that churches should be required to file Form 990s like secular charities. If they win, this would be a sea change for the hundreds of...
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Cutting to the (JPMorgan) Chase Mortgage Settlement
Due to JPMorgan Chase’s record of intentional sales of “toxic” mortgage-backed securities, the biggest bank in the U.S. (by assets) got hit with the largest single-corporation fine in history. Want to...
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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: Why a Living Wage Is Your Business
A down and dirty business case for paying a living, not a minimum, wage, and a nudge to the sector to take the issue on.
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Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Prepare for Life without the Organization
The musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra seem to be progressing along parallel tracks: one being their discussions with the Minnesota Orchestral Association, the other looking more and more like...
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