A Few Year-End Gifts
My last post of 2007 is a few suggestions and recommendations for your leisure time review. Tucked in the Business section of the Saturday, December 22, 2007 New York Times was a wonderful story,...
View ArticleMake Your Case for Flexible Funding
I find it interesting that I’ve read and heard quite a lot lately about foundation leaders discussing the relative merits and challenges of moving some of their grantmaking from program and project...
View ArticleUnrestricted Support Part 2
Continuing on this theme, how effective are nonprofits at making the case for unrestricted support? Rather than bemoaning the lack of unrestricted funds, what can we learn? An article in last Sunday’s...
View ArticleThe Essence of Being Nonprofit
I’ve been mulling the question of what makes a nonprofit organization distinctly different from a for-profit business. Thinking about this is percolating because of an article in The New York Times...
View ArticleMyth, Reality, and Real Life
This week has brought an interesting alignment in the discussion, or debate, about the future of philanthropy. Last Sunday, the magazine section of The New York Times was all about “Giving it Away” and...
View ArticleThe Opposite of Accountable
Eight years ago, ACORN, a national grassroots community organizing nonprofit, was the victim of an embezzlement of almost $1 million from an employee who was the brother of the organization’s founder....
View ArticleAnd you thought you had cash flow problems
At Nonprofits Assistance Fund we frequently talk with managers of nonprofit organization that are facing cash flow shortfalls. It’s really common that the of timing income and expenses gets out of...
View ArticleThe Magic Donor Myth
The New York Times published an article this week about the Gilmanton New Hampshire Year-Round Library Association and their efforts to raise money for operating costs. Led by dedicated and committed...
View ArticleResolve to Lift Your Literacy
I have a New Years Resolution suggestion that has nothing to do with exercise or diet. Resolve to learn more than you already know about economics, markets, and personal finances. It’s a matter of self...
View ArticleSeeing the Forest for the Trees
All of us are reading waves of economic information right now – the stimulus, the proposed state and federal budgets – and are trying to sort out which parts have a direct impact on our communities and...
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