To death and taxes Benjamin Franklin should have added “postal increases.”
” The standard mail category used widely by nonprofits will see an average increase of 2.875 percent, coming in under the 2.9-percent cap,” the NonProfit Times reported yesterday. “And, nonprofit standard regular parcels and Non-Flat Machinable, which effectively was a new class that doubled rates […]
Of the various media outlets that can credibly claim to provide national news coverage, I can think of only one, National Public Radio, that is nonprofit. It’s barely off the ground, but the online Washington Independent, launched last month by the nonprofit Center for Independent Media, has doubled that list to two. The Independent “aims […]
We’ve just entered the Chinese Year of the Rat, and if you think the filthy little plague-carriers are as far removed from nonprofits as quarterly dividends, think again.
In Chinese philosophy, the rodent’s ambition, strong will, and self-interest lead to an accumulation of wealth and power. Hey, development staffs, are you listening? Sounds like someone you […]
When I was a kid in grade school, every year my classmates and I would participate in the Jump Rope for Heart, an American Heart Association fundraiser through which we’d gather pledges and collect donations, then spend the day in the gym in a mass rope-skipping marathon. Decades (cough) later, the event is still hopping, […]
The global economic slump that followed the September 11 attacks caused 40 percent of the 6,500 nonprofits surveyed by the Nonprofit Finance Fund to run operating deficits for three straight years. With many observers believing the United States is on the verge of a recession, the Nonprofit Finance Fund held a conference call with reporters […]
Writing in Slate, philanthropy consultant Georgia Levenson Keohane expresses doubt that social-networking fundraising is having much of an impact:
It’s still early, but hopes that viral philanthropy will rain down dollars are probably overblown. To date, sums raised have been relatively modest, though the trend shows movement in the right direction. According to the latest Chronicle […]
Last week the b5 servers got all hinky on us, and posting to and reading the network’s blogs — including the 501(c) Files — was a sketchy proposition for a day or two. That got a lot of us here on the Business Channel thinking about crisis management. For nonprofits, I think, there are a […]
Yesterday’s New York Times had a fascinating piece about a tough situation faced by the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, an addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that is just about to open. It’s a story about the influence a deep-pocketed board member can have, the complex relationships between a nonprofit’s board and […]
Last month the Nonprofit Center at La Salle University brought together a handful of funders for a panel discussion of tips and trends. Representatives of dozens of nonprofits packed a meeting room in the basement of PECO Energy’s Center City Philadelphia headquarters to listen in, and the Center was kind enough to […]
A recently posted fact sheet from the IRS outlines the “variety of tools at its disposal to make certain that tax-exempt organizations comply with federal law designed to ensure they are entitled to any tax exemption they may claim.” (Hat tip to the Nonprofit Law Prof Blog.)
Not everyone thinks that nonprofit journalism is such a […]
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