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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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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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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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Developing Leaders by Stepping Aside
There is a well-used adage about good facilitation – “Don’t just say something, stand there!” One foundation took this advice, developing a very unstructured leader program. How did it work?
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Defensive behavior is instinctive, but it can be counterproductive in our work relationships and organizations. Janoff discusses how we can learn and promote different approaches.
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Talking About Taxes
As we march toward the fiscal cliff, everyone knows that tax reform is on the table in negotiations between President Obama, the Democratic Senate, and the Republican House of Representatives. For a...
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Financial Independence: Six Approaches
Are nonprofits and resource dependency inextricably linked? In this classic NPQ journal article, the insightful and grounded Jon Pratt says “not necessarily!” and then he walks us through six ways to...
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Why You Should Run Your Business Like a Nonprofit
In a world of fast-diminishing customer and employee loyalty, businesses (and even many nonprofits) can learn substantial lessons from the best of nonprofit practice in three areas: fierce and obvious...
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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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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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Nonprofit CEO Pay: Excessive or Too Low and How Do We Know?
In a recent article, Forbes ponders whether a $1 million salary is too high for a nonprofit CEO. What measures should we use to address this question in a meaningful way?
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Corporate CEO Confidence Drops Again: How Will Your Nonprofit Fare?
A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of the world’s corporate CEOs finds these titans of industry not particularly confident in their companies this year. How do you think your nonprofit will fare?
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As Komen Fundraising Comes up Short, Where to Place the Blame?
Forty years after Roe vs. Wade, the battle goes on. Just ask the Susan G. Komen for the Cure affiliates nursing wounds after the national organization’s fight with Planned Parenthood.
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Nonprofit Groups Exchange Legal Blows in Disclosure Battle
The American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Oxfam America battle over a Dodd-Frank provision requiring disclosure of payments to foreign governments.
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Unusual Governance Structure: Husband and Wife Co-Presidents
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is reportedly preparing to launch lawsuits across the U.S. The charity’s atypical structure features an executive role split between husband and wife.
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In the Super Bowl of Lobbying, the NFL Plays to Win
While the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers prepare for Super Bowl XLVII, the tax-exempt National Football League (NFL) is playing a game of its own: lobbying Congress.
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Ponzi Schemes That Ensnare Nonprofits (and How to Avoid Them)
Nonprofits, donors, and people allied with them: watch out when there are deals that sound too good to be true. They just about always are.
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Put Your Money Where Your Mission Is: Mission-Related Investments and You
Most nonprofit leaders aren’t investment whizzes, but most realize that they should carefully consider their investment options. There are many ways to do so that are in harmony with one’s mission.
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Does IRS Have Resources to Do Its Increasingly Complicated Job?
When people talk about organizations having to do more with less, they’re typically not referring to the Internal Revenue Service, though it appears that dilemma may be the case at the IRS, too.
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“If It Moves, Medicaid It” and Excessive NPO Salaries in N.Y.
A recent report from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform offers a scathing critique of New York’s administration of the Medicaid program.
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