an organization that does not have financial profit as a main strategic objective. Nonprofit organizations include charities, professional associations, labor unions, and religious, arts, community,...
Sylvia Kressen and a few volunteers whom she had recruited tried to establish a Northwest Arkansas ALS chapter. The legal requirements of incorporating, generating fiscal procedures and creating a nonprofit organization were overwhelming. While Sylvia had good business experience, she had no experience with nonprofits. Sylvia turned to Northwest Arkansas...
The Fundraiser - Nonprofit Organization Specialist job description template includes the following job summary: To assist controller of nonprofit organization in raising money for the organization by participating in fund-raising drives and by preparing grant proposals for specific projects that meet parameters for funds from private foundations, the United Way,...
A nonprofit organization, or tax-exempt business, does not distribute any profits to its owners, just as its name suggests. All money left after expenses is put back into the business or used for charitable purposes in the community. Nonprofits, as these organizations are typically called, include most charities and also...
In the three years after the federal governance reform legislation known as Sarbanes-Oxley SOX was adopted in 2002, it has become increasingly clear that the nonprofit sector has been directly affected by the impact of SOX on nonprofit governance best practices. SOX-inspired legislation and regulations also have been enacted specifically...
Audits are an important legal accountability tool used by resource providers (donors, grantors, and others) to assure that resources are spent by nonprofit organizations in accordance with the resource provider's intentions. This paper reports on audits that are required by the government of the United States for organizations receiving large...
This article is about the assessment of materiality in planning and completing an audit of a nonprofit organization is inherently difficult. The for-profit world's rules of thumb for materiality thresholds, such as calculating a percentage of net income, do not easily apply to charitable organizations. Instead, auditors apply various percentages...
Developing effective nonprofit business collaborations is a demanding task but quite achievable. Article enumerates the main points of how to develop strategic alliance between nonprofit organizations and business. It divides the process in 3 different phases. Phase 1. Defines the provisions and activities done to prepare the nonprofit organization to...
This article gives some historical perspective to the current hard market, helps understand the cyclical nature of the insurance market, and suggests steps that small companies, public entities and nonprofit organizations may employ to prepare for and weather the hard market. Steps being taken to improve underwriting results and profitability...
Although Directors' and Officers' liability insurance (D&O) often is associated with large for-profit companies, they are not the only ones that need it. Many people hold the common misperception that directors and officers of a nonprofit organization do not have a meaningful exposure to personal liability. The reality of today's...
The Policy Board for Oklahoma's Economic Development Generating Excellence Fund will soon announce which research projects will move forward in the process to receive state funding. In May, the board put out a request for pre-proposals from researchers seeking financial support from the fund. The invitation...
Five High School Teenagers Have Established a 501C(3), Non-Profit Organization That Awards Textbook Grants to College Students; the Organization, Beans for Books, Has Recently Been Approved and Added to FastWeb, a Monster Company That Matches Students with Available Grants; the Founder, 17 Year Old Dave Lanning, Jr., Has Plans to...
HealthPass, a New York City-based non-profitagency dedicated to improving access to health coverage for small employersand sole proprietors, announced today that enrollment in its healthinsurance programs has surpassed 20,000 members. An innovative partnership between the New York Business Group on Health,the City of New York, and the health insurance industry,...
Participants in point-based incentiveprograms designed and administered by Incentive Logic have donatedclose to $400,000 to nonprofit organizations as part of the company'sPoints-for-Good initiative. Participants in market research-based programsare earning points in these tailored online programs created for IncentiveLogic clients, such as Harris Interactive, KMR Group's IntelliQuest Studiesand MarketTools,...
New Alliance Eases Voting Process for Millions of Americans Abroad MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world's largest express transportation company, today announced its support of Express Your Vote, an initiative of the Overseas Vote Foundation OVF, a nonprofit, nonpartisan...
Company Initiates First Non-Profit Partnership with CEDA NEW YORK -- Perf Go Green Holdings, Inc. ("Perf Go Green") (OTCBB: PGOG, www.perfgogreen.com), a marketer and distributor of biodegradable plastics, announced today that the company's new 13 gallon tall kitchen trash bags will be included in energy conservation kits for...
Money Raised From the Tournament's Silent Auction Will Benefit Two Non-Profit Organizations That Focus on Educational and Athletic Opportunities for Children SALT LAKE CITY -- The 2008 Sorenson Champions Challenge announced today that the event raised more than $80,000 to be shared by Art Works for Kids and...
BLADENetwork Technologies, Inc ., the industry leader in networkvirtualization for servers and storage, announced that it has joinedthe Climate Savers Computing InitiativeSM, a non-profit organizationdedicated to reducing computer power consumption by 50 percent by 2010. As a pioneer of energy-efficient data center networking, BLADE is the onlycompany in...
CLAREMONT, Calif. -- The July 15 application deadline for the 2008 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation is approaching. The award, administered annually since 1991, is granted to a social sector organization that demonstrates Drucker's definition of innovation--change that creates a new dimension of performance. The winner...
Voting for Winners is Now Open Through July 18 at SourceForge Web Site DALLAS -- MPower - which provides the most open, flexible, and powerful software for nonprofit constituent relationship management CRM and fundraising - has been named a finalist for SourceForge's Community Choice Awards in the "Best...
Blackbaud's CRM capabilities, open APIs, and comprehensive product offerings combine with Kintera's SaaS expertise to benefit entire nonprofit sector CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Blackbaud([R]), Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB), the leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of...
