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- Your Nonprofit Needs A Technology Plan
- To the surprise of the nonprofit sector, internet technology is enhancing good works. Smaller nonprofits have found the Web to be a blessing for locating discounted items and organizing people to support causes. Technology is, in many ways, a necessary evil for nonprofits doing business today. As with most businesses...
- White papers
- Risk Management Resolutions: Easier Than A Diet; Good For The Health Of Your Nonprofit
- This paper offers some simple but important Risk Management Resolutions. The resolutions can be easily adapted to reflect the circumstances and resources of your nonprofit. And best of all, they don't require the equivalent of giving up dessert or enrolling in a spinning class. No single set of risk management...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Your Special Skills In Managing Risk: Recognizing Conflict, Reaching Consensus
- On both the upside and the downside, strategic risk management for a nonprofit requires many skills, much knowledge, and vast experience. For some of these, in some technical areas, you may well need to look outside, beyond yourself and your immediate colleagues. But in looking, do not ignore the most...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Managing Restricted Grants: Routine Or Risky Business?
- For many nonprofits, an important category of risk emerges when an agency applies for and receives restricted grant funding. The tremendous competition for grant funds increases the risk that a nonprofit will make promises the organization is unable to keep. Such promises may include overly ambitious goals for client services,...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- What's The Board Got To Do With It?: The Vital Link Between Good Governance And Risk Management
- If a Risk Management Committee does not currently exist, determine whether there is an existing committee that could be re-purposed or broadened to take on risk management issues, or whether it makes more sense to create a separate committee for this purpose. The legal structure and operation of a nonprofit...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Good Governance Is Sound Risk Management
- Re-thinking how nonprofits govern themselves is not just a phenomenon in the nation's capitol. Across the country, state associations of nonprofits are encouraging their members to voluntarily adopt "Best practice" principles. In many museums, community foundations, voluntary health organizations, land trusts and international humanitarian organizations best practice standards are being...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Setting Up a Nonprofit Organization
- 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...
- Articles 2007-07-16
- Structure, Behavior And Performance In For-Profit, Nonprofit And Government Organizations
- In this paper we examine empirically the association between organization type on the one hand and organization structure, organizational behavior, and organizational performance on the other hand, focusing on different types of organization that coexist in the same industry. We consider for-profit, nonprofit and government nursing homes (of the skilled...
- White papers 2006-12-30
- Coordinating a Volunteer Workforce
- Volunteers are an important part of the business culture. Organizations can leverage volunteers in many ways to help them meet institutional goals.
- Articles 2007-02-01
- The Nonprofit Sector's Leadership Deficit
- Whether it is helping a teenage mother learn to care for her child, training an ex-convict to get a decent job, or aiding disaster victims, nonprofits increasingly do the work required to fulfill the desire for a civil, compassionate, and well-functioning society. Like most organizations, their ability to consistently deliver...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- What Non-profits Can Learn From For-Profits, and Vice Versa
- Nonprofits and for-profits have a lot to learn from each other. Nonprofits would likely do better if they placed more emphasis on business-like operational and financial performance measures and for-profits would make more profit if they focused more on the passion and giving side of the equation. For-profits and nonprofits...
- White papers 2006-02-06
- Business Planning for Nonprofits: What It Is and Why It Matters
- Mention business planning and people often think about written plans - the tangible products. The leap is natural, but it is also problematic. It short circuits the process of developing the plan, which is where many nonprofits find the greater value. This paper describes business planning which is a highly...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Sarbanes-Oxley: What It Means to Nonprofits
- More than 4 year has passed since Sarbanes-Oxley became law. While the law applies, for the most part, to publicly traded corporations, the term "Sarbanes-Oxley" has come to stand for much more than just the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act of 2002, which is the formal name for what...
- White papers 2004-05-20
- A Nonprofit Management Perspective on Chiesa, Coughlan and Voss
- The world of nonprofit organisations is a complex one. Where as for-profit entities see their survival as depending on how much profit is made, nonprofits must find their strength for survival in the motivations behind the shareholders supporting their organisation and the reasons for their contributions or volunteer work. This...
- White papers 2004-04-19
- Empowering Nonprofits to Do More With Less
- Driven by rising service-level expectations in the private sector, nonprofit organizations are experiencing increased pressure to provide better service to their constituents and use contributions effectively. Many nonprofits have no choice but to seek ways to enhance service delivery with limited resources in an effort to reduce operational costs significantly....
- White papers 2003-07-23
- Disaster Relief and Recovery: The Role of Nonprofits Beyond Ground Zero and the Legal Implications of Their Work
- Disaster relief means addressing the multi-faceted needs of New York's larger community as it recovers from a grave tragedy. The first part of this paper discusses the broad range of problems and human needs created or intensified by September 11, particularly in New York's low-income and disadvantaged neighborhoods, as well...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Nonprofits Can Compete With Employee Benefits
- Working for nonprofit organizations can bring employees the pleasure of following an interest or a conviction, but nonprofits are not depending on that alone to sustain their work forces. Some nonprofits try to be competitive on salaries, but for many, the key can be providing other incentives to retain employees.
- White papers 2002-12-20
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- Rights watch: to plant a seed
- "Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow."--Stevens Point Daily Journal, August 1897. "Who's a Rifleman?" Mike "Duke" Venturino asks in his May 2008 "Montana Musings" column. "No one ever became a rifleman by shooting a few dozen cartridges a year." The Appleseed Project helps answer his quesuon. Named after...
- Articles 2008-08-01
- Tony Soprano's wardrobe raises $187K for soldiers
- One used, black and beige short-sleeve polo shirt, a tank top and black pants: $43,750. Inflation run amok? Nope -- just the premium you pay for the blood of Tony Soprano. Twenty-five outfits worn by James Gandolfini's alter ego raised $187,750 at auction Wednesday...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- BT and the X PRIZE Foundation Team Up to Inspire World-Changing Innovations
- The X PRIZE Foundation, an educationalnon-profit that designs and administers competitions with prizes of $10million or more, and global communications services provider BT, havejoined forces to combat some of the world's biggest challenges, such asdisease, poverty and energy efficiency. BT Global Services, which employsmore than 32,000 people worldwide, is...
- Articles 2008-06-26
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