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To Diversify, or Not to Diversify Revenue—(It’s Complicated)
Some conversations about nonprofits seem to have a life of their own, like the one about whether it is better for nonprofits to diversify their income bases or not. The answer is, “It depends…”
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Dynamic Governance: Kicking Employee Engagement Into Overdrive
NPQ has written a lot over the years about the value of engagement in the development of programs that creatively meet the needs of a community. In this story, employee and resident engagement are...
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Small Nonprofit with Repeated Deficits, Expands and Stabilizes
Many small nonprofit organizations are still suffering in the aftermath of the recession. Some have gone under or remain in uncomfortable financial straits, but others have been able to reorganize...
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House Guts IRS Tax Enforcement Budget; Nonprofit Sector Silence Is Deafening
It has been said that there really isn’t a problem of nonprofit accountability, but of regulatory oversight and enforcement of nonprofit standards by the IRS. If the U.S. House of Representatives gets...
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Why the Obama White House Says “No!” to the America Gives More Act
The America Gives More Act passed the House of Representatives this week. Just about every Republican who could find his or her way to the floor voted in favor of the proposed charitable incentives for...
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Report Shows Financial Contribution of Utah’s Community Health Clinics
Community health centers have grown a lot over the past few years, and they will surely grow more in the next few, so it is critical that they communicate the effect of their programs on communities....
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Nonprofit Retains Supporters while Coming Clean regarding Financial Impropriety
Just because a nonprofit experiences a problem with financial impropriety, it need not mean that it becomes a scandal. Some of the tenor of the response may live in the communications to stakeholders...
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Working out of a Financial Tailspin: Amistad America
It’s common for young nonprofits to create reputational problems for themselves by getting too much money before attending to the financial basics.
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Are There Too Many Nonprofits in Milwaukee?
A study looks at the growth and relative health of the nonprofit sector in Milwaukee.
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Social Impact Bonds: Phantom of the Nonprofit Sector
Sometimes the nonprofit sector appears haunted by the specters of unproven “great ideas.” Do social impact bonds fit in that category?
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Toward a Nonprofit Theory of Leadership and Organizational Culture
With all the talk about the need for “leaderful organizations,” few have set out to so clearly lay out a set of practices to create one. Leave it to MCN!
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Big Foundation Investment Produces Big Fail in a News Site
Proving once again that money doesn’t mean everything in nonprofit sustainability, a nonprofit investigative news site goes belly up in Santa Barbara.
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Met Opera Lockout Delayed as Both Sides Agree to Financial Examination
With a federal mediator and an independent financial analyst involved, Met management and unions have extended contract talks twice in recent days.
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Does McEnroe Charity Just Feed the Club that Holds His Tennis Academy?
An investigative article in the New York Post asserts that John McEnroe’s charity may be primarily a tool to prop up a for-profit business plan.
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