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Boards and Public Displays of Disaffection
Internal strife comes in many forms, and perhaps it’s best that we don’t always know every detail behind all the drama. But boards should never underestimate the impact of their actions on an...
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Challenges Face New Chair of National Endowment for the Arts
Jane Chu gets advice from her predecessors and from a respected critic who believes that President Obama has given the arts short shrift.
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A Local YWCA Disaffiliates
The Salem Oregon YWCA has severed its ties with the national organization and left its two major programs behind. What is left?
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Arts Center Thinks Creatively about Sustainability as Deadline Looms
With a looming rent bill due, a three-year old arts center in Tallahassee tries to buy some time with a big community based event.
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Colorado Independent Squarely Faces Credentialing, the IRS, and an...
The nonprofit news outlet’s experiences point out the pitfalls in the slow transition from traditional, commercially supported journalism to the new nonprofit business model.
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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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New York AG Sues Former Head of NARAL for Misuse of Donor Dollars
The former president of NARAL Pro-Choice New York allegedly misused $250,000 worth of NARAL money “for personal travel, a nanny, dining expenses, shopping sprees at Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman, and...
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Nonprofit Movie Theater Alters Business Model to Include Memberships
NPQ believes that all nonprofits should be watching to see how the experiments with one another’s business models are working out. That’s why we’re watching the Hollywood Theater in Dormont, Pa., and...
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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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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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Regional Hospital May be Targeted for a Higher PILOT Contribution as Large...
Now that the South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass., is being eyed by Partners Health Care for purchase, town officials are looking at whether the hospital’s voluntary tax contribution should be...
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Reich Asks: After the Election, Are We All in This Together?
Given the political vitriol of this campaign, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich raises the question of how we can work together to solve the huge problems that this nation faces.
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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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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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“Variable Pay” All the Rage Even in Nonprofits?
The Washington Post reports that employers are awarding more bonuses and performance-based pay rather than pay increases in order to “incentivize workers.” Have you experienced this in your local...
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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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Michael Quinn Patton’s Top 10 Developments in Qualitative Evaluation for the...
A lot has changed in the decade since I wrote the third edition of Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods. While working on the fourth edition, I’ve pulled out ten highlights to sum up the state...
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Colorado Independent Squarely Faces Credentialing, the IRS, and an...
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