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Small and Informal and Vulnerable to Fraud: A Warning
Andrea Merrill, a founding board member of Kai’s Village, awaits arraignment on the charge of having allegedly taken $10,000 from the Worcester, Mass. nonprofit.
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Six Promising Dynamics for Detroit’s Revival
Detroit is bankrupt, shedding population, and aiming to knock down tens of thousands of vacant homes, but Detroit activist Larry Gabriel sees elements of the city’s revival already underway.
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The Budget Games: An Obscure 10-Week Funding Plan from House Republicans
The Fiscal Year 2014 budget games are starting in rapid fashion. See if you can figure out what’s behind the House Republicans’ plan to approve a spending plan for only 10 weeks of the fiscal year....
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Head Start Children: Government’s Go-To for Cuts
Thousands of children across 20 states lost access to Head Start on Tuesday as a result of the government shutdown.
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“Not for Profit” Is Not “For Profit”
If this simple statement is true, the implications are far more serious than are ever acknowledged.
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Whistleblower Upends CEO of Major New York City Poverty Organization
Charity CEO uses insurance carrier to use hundreds of thousands dollars a year for personal and political uses, many being the NYC political elite.
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New Clara Miller on Enterprise Capital
Over the years NPQ has published some real classics in the realm of nonprofit financial management, and a number of them were from Clara Miller, head of the F.B. Heron Foundation, who at the time...
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Planning for Leadership Emergencies in Nonprofits
For this “What A Tool! Tuesday,” we ask: If your executive director got hit by a truck tomorrow, what would happen to your nonprofit?
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Nonprofits Put the “Creative” into Creative Reuse
For a startup nonprofit in Charleston, S.C., crowdfunding, cross-sector collaboration, and creative reuse may prove to be a winning combination.
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Funder Transparency: How Much and When?
A new guidebook from Glasspockets shows foundations how to be more transparent about their work, and what benefits would come from that.
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Seduced and Abandoned: Agencies and their Volunteers
The lack of a well-run volunteer program leads to a terrible collection of missed opportunities.
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Closing the Gender Gap at Wikipedia
The gender gap at Wikipedia has had serious consequences for how content is developed. These feminist art fans aim to do their bit to change all that.
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Local Governments Struggle with Museum Management
New York City and a suburb of Los Angeles join Detroit in dealing with the challenges and pitfalls of public agencies in the museum business.
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Branding: A Labor of Love
If people can have emotional, almost human, relationships with commercial brands, does the same hold true for nonprofit brands?
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Board Closes Agency—Or Maybe Not: Stakeholder Revolt
The board of the Women’s Resource Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, closed the program on January 31 after 40 years, but former staff and supporters are now challenging that decision, saying that the...
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A Reminder about Funding Overdependence
The closing of a city-run clinic in Portland, Maine, that provided healthcare for thousands of homeless people stands as a reminder to guard against overdependence on a single source of funding.
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Warehouses or Accelerators? Charitable Gift Funds Prove Strong Partners to...
Schwab Charitable, the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, and several others linked to financial services firms have developed a charitable service that has done more than increase the ease of the process...
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The Worst Financial Decision Ever
This week for What A Tool! Tuesday, Kate Barr discusses the one financial choice your nonprofit can make that’s likeliest to lead to utter ruin: failing to settle up payroll taxes.
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Board and Business Plan Dysfunction at Storied Public Radio Station WBAI
Poor programming decisions? Dysfunctional board leadership? An outdated business model? Perhaps all of the above, as Pacifica Foundation flagship station WBAI appears to be sinking fast.
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Boards and their Public Displays of Disaffection
I am thrilled today to call your attention to a timely article by Vernetta Walker of BoardSource. Here, she takes up the responsibility of boards in guarding and promoting the reputations of their...
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