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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 An outdated business model?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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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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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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Urban League CEO Resigns—But That’s Not the End of the Story
An executive resigning immediately before the results of an imposed audit are released, employees who have gone extended periods without pay…this is the scene faced by the board of the Urban League of...
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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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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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Social Enterprise: Making the Choice Between For-Profit and Nonprofit
As ThinkImpact grew, its founder, Saul Garlick, had to make a tough decision: remain a nonprofit, or change to a for-profit model? To do so, he had to consider some key elements: ownership,...
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Whither Sustainability? Well, It Depends
Grants and donations are not, in and of themselves, less sustainable than selling goods and services when it comes to raising money for social enterprise groups. Or so David Floyd contends in his blog...
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Social Enterprise, Squared
The coworking movement—which, like the nonprofit sector, values collaboration and community building—is gaining traction within the social enterprise movement.
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Many United Way Campaigns in Peril
The United Way campaign is hurting in Lewiston, Pennsylvania. That small community isn’t alone in watching United Way campaigns fall plenty short of fundraising targets.
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Newark’s Water/Sewer Nonprofit Proves to Be Political Cesspool
It’s time for nonprofits to redouble their attention to nonprofits created and run by government agencies under the cover of 501(c) tax-exempt status. This case study from Newark, New Jersey, an...
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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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Big Brothers Big Sisters Dinged for Inadequate Oversight of Federal Money
The DOJ’s Office of Inspector General found Big Brothers Big Sisters of America in material non-compliance regarding $23.2M in grants.
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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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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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Using Outcomes to Measure Nonprofit Success
When it comes to judging the success of a nonprofit, the truly important data are seldom found in the organization’s financial statements.
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Newseum, Like Many Museums, Unable to Move Beyond the Economic Crisis
The Newseum, one of Washington, D.C.’s more recent museums, finds itself cutting staff and spinning off programs in order to stay afloat as their endowment shrinks. The unfortunate results of these...
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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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