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Operating Above Its Financial Skill Level Not Good for This Nonprofit
NPQ has a lot of empathy for new organizations that misunderstand the level of skill they need to do decent financial management, but it is important to learn your lesson the first time you realize...
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What Can We Learn from New York’s Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013?
As the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 takes effect in New York, is there anything we can learn from it, or are there any trends we should watch out for?
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Fundraising Costs Queried Down Under
A fundraising company is being investigated by a state government regulatory agency in Australia.
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Using Loans: A 101 Guide To Borrowing For Nonprofit Organizations
If anyone would know the rules for using loans as a nonprofit, it would be the Nonprofit Assistance Fund. This piece is good to share with board members as a base of commonly understood information...
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Low-Interest Bond Program for Nonprofits May Continue, Says Maine Gov
The 20-year-old program has saved charities millions, but that alone did not convince the governor to continue the public-private partnership; now, that’s changed.
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Seeking What Makes Us Valid as People and as Organizations
Authenticity sometimes seems like a rare commodity – yet it is valuable beyond words in the work we do. Here we reprint a moving speech by Paul Hogan to the Buffalo Society of Artists about art, mental...
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Major Nonprofit Merger Develops Organically with a Little Push from the...
In a deal that will result in the 13th largest public garden in the United States, the Cleveland Botanical Garden and the Holden Arboretum, established within one year of each other in 1930 and 1931,...
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A “Classic Case” Merger: What Tends to Make Them Work
Two sheltering programs in the Greater Atlanta metropolitan area are merging and their situation provides a “classic case” of the factors that often underlie a successful merger.
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American Opera, Rising
San Diego Opera is on the rebound from its near-death experience. The Metropolitan Opera labor dispute is still simmering, with contracts that will expire in another month. As opera companies across...
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Boards and Magical Thinking
Wild ambition to create change and good governance can easily coexist, and NPQ believes that working for the impossible to become possible is what this sector is all about. Perhaps that requires some...
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Community Foundation CEO Steps Down After 20 Years and Leaves Ideas for the...
Before Nancy Kieling accepted a job at the Princeton Area Community Foundation twenty years ago, she had never heard of a community foundation. In six months, she will leave behind an organization that...
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Historic Social Enterprise Cries Uncle as SF Rent Rises
Nonprofits in high-rent towns like New York and San Francisco are having a hard time with space, and so it is perhaps no surprise that at the end of July, Under One Roof, a historic social enterprise...
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Carmel Tea Party Argues for Municipal Transparency
Even the Tea Party can get something sort of right. In Carmel, Indiana, a local Tea Party group is pushing for enhanced standards of municipal government transparency.
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The “People’s Opera” May Rise Again, But It’s a Waiting Game for Buyers
There are potential buyers waiting to be given the chance to buy and resuscitate the New York City Opera, and one of them thinks the board, grinding its way through bankruptcy proceedings, is dragging...
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Reporter Views Lack of Salary Disclosure as Provocative Indicator
An Asheville, N.C reporter reveals a bit of his thinking and it is worth considering: In his opinion, when an organization working with tax dollars refuses to reveal top salaries, they warrant a deeper...
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Under Re-Construction: San Diego Opera Cutting Costs and Rebuilding Trust for...
After the highly publicized near-closure of the San Diego Opera this spring, the organization has cut its operating budget by about a third—including some staff layoffs—and is preparing to raise the...
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Improbable Tales: Nonprofit Gives Back $10 Million Grant (and $10M Match)
When is a multimillion dollar grant not needed? When it locks you into a way of doing things that is either unsustainable or simply not ideal.
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Kate Barr of the Nonprofits Assistance Fund joined Nonprofit Quarterly for a special webinar where Kate shared vividly illustrated cautionary tales about how to avoid common nonprofit financial traps....
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A Common Picture: Two Philadelphia Arts Organizations Struggle with Debt Come...
NPQ has been chronicling the struggles of too many arts organizations which were affected by the recession in a very particular way. Here is what the pattern we have seen looks looks like.
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St. Paul Library Finds New Life as Home for “People’s History”
When a former Carnegie library moved its collection to a larger facility earlier this year, two professors—one a labor historian, one a theater artist—saw just the opening they had been looking for to...
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