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Archive for the ‘Business affairs’ Category

April 27th, 2008

Notes, Follow-Ups, and Reminders | Oprah, Conferences, Volunteer Vetting, CRM, RSS

Oprah’s hopelessly misguided take on giving. | Chronicle of Philanthropy
The underwhelming fundraising conference circuit, and some suggestions for reform. | NonProfit Times, Donor Power Blog
Do nonprofits do enough to vet their volunteers? | National Center for Victims of Crime
Can the nonprofit sector define a universal data model when it comes to customer relationship management? | […]

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April 25th, 2008

A Nonprofit Looking Out for the Little Guy

As noted a couple of days ago, this is National Small Business Week, and while the federal Small Business Administration hogs all of the attention, there is, yes, a nonprofit that helps the country’s thousands of entrepreneurs make their case to Washington and the various state capitals. The National Small Business Association was launched in […]

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April 23rd, 2008

Note to Small Businesses: Nonprofits Feel Your Pain (and Your Joy)

We are smack dab in the middle of National Small Business Week, and I am struck by how similar the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are in this regard. Just as the nonprofit world sees the heavy hitters — Ivy League universities, global charities, national trade associations — get all the attention, on Wall Street it’s […]

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April 22nd, 2008

Missing the Mission | Another Example of ADD by a Nonprofit Board?

The headline says that a bankruptcy trustee of Saint Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers of New York is suing the law firm that handled the nonprofit’s Chapter 11 matters for legal malpractice. The story behind the headline is that, yet again, another nonprofit board may have been asleep at the switch.
According to the New York Law […]

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April 20th, 2008

Notes, Follow-Ups, and Reminders | Terrorism and Nonprofits, Taglines, Economic Development, Taxing Higher Ed, RSS

The effects of anti-terrorism finance programs on nonprofits. | OMB Watch
The huge missed opportunity of nonprofit taglines. | Getting Attention
Advocating for a nonprofit voice in regional economic development decision making. | Roanoke Times
Uganda proposes taxing a private university. | allAfrica.com
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April 17th, 2008

Mining the Mission | Nonprofits Taking Advantage of the Technology Boom

They’re square pegs that don’t quite fit into round holes, those technology companies profiled by the New York Times last weekend: firms that make money, just not as much as investors would like, and that have social missions at their core. As the article noted, nonprofits with nice revenue streams are hardly new, but what […]

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April 16th, 2008

Trouble at the Top Means Trouble Down Below

"Trickle-down economics" was initially coined to describe how tax benefits and other initiatives at the corporate level would eventually work their way down to the middle and lower classes, but the current economic climate seems to be shunting troubles, not advantages, down the drainpipe. According to the Republican-American of Waterbury, Connecticut, with the decades-long exodus […]

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April 13th, 2008

Maintaining Balance: Accounting Solver to the Rescue

Whether you’re a multinational nonprofit with initiatives spanning the globe or a cozy community organization making a difference in your town, you have to keep the books. As always, b5’s Business Channel has a resource for you: Accounting Solver. Blogger Ren Garcia keeps an eye on cash flow issues and accounting trends and applies the […]

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April 8th, 2008

I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday for Help With My Heating Bill Today

The avalanche of bad economic news that has buried Americans in recent months has also been taking nonprofits along its dangerous rumble down the mountain. The same forces that are laying waste to your 401(k), making it tough for you to sell you house, and causing you to grimace at the gas pump and in […]

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April 4th, 2008

And Maybe the Homeless Could Just Wrap Themselves in Extra Newspapers

As if dealing with a wobbly economy weren’t bad enough, nonprofits are having to figure out a way to pay for rising energy costs.

Most have been able to absorb the increase, but the bigger concern is whether energy costs will continue to rise sharply in the future. …
Theatre Harrisburg’s natural gas costs also have crept […]

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