In the December newsletter I included a feature called “Year in Review” – Mini Annual Reports by Email. It showed an example of how Village Enterprise Fund updated the traditional annual report into our digital age. Many nonprofits work on the calendar year, but others have fiscal years that end in other months.  For example, […]

Are you ready for success in your nonprofit work this year? If you don’t already have a plan in place for 2009 now is the time to do so. I would encourage you to put all of the major events, fundraisers, program related events on the year long calendar now. How about getting a wall […]

How many people wait until the last few weeks of the year to make their charitable donations?  If you’ve pledged a certain amount for the year, you probably feel compelled to get that donation in.  Then others are reminded that it’s the end of the tax season.  If you’d like to list that charitable donation […]

Amidst the usual challenges of managing a non profit and the added pressures of the economic climate, there are reasons to be thankful. Thinking locally I’m most thankful for our non profit community.  Living in a town of around 100K, which is not a suburb, the nonprofits here do a good job of networking and […]

Now that the election is over I’m having a bit of the politico-news withdrawl.  I followed the political campaign closely, and also took note of several bloggers who wrote about this election from the perspective of a non-profit. I started out this post with just a handful of links like usual, but this list just […]

Holiday season is coming up fast… are you ready? Fasten Your Seatbelts: It’s Going to Be a Bumpy Giving Season from Guidestar On-line Holiday Giving May Exceed $3 Billion also from Guidestar 70% of Americans Plan to Give During the Holidays, Survey Finds from Chronicle of Philanthropy Ask for online donations today. Really. Katya Andresen […]

In every workplace there’s language that only makes sense to the insiders.  Call it jargon, lingo or acronym heck… every job has it.  Working in the non-profit world is no different. When you first start out in non profit management you may encounter terms that sound like a foreign language.  Don’t worry, there are some […]