Nonprofit news from around the country. Today: nonprofit pot stores, politicians plundering nonprofit assets, lost wealth, and money to merge.
Nonprofit Newswire | June 9, 2009
Nonprofit news from around the country. Today: Investigation into La. horsemen’s association expands; feds look into sound system installed in home of group’s president.
Ask the Librarian
Now that NPQ’s archives are available digitally, we’ve made someone available to field your questions about our content. Wondering how best to deal with a board problem, or what tools are best for communicating your message? Ask the librarian, and we’ll publish the answers as a readers’ guide in this regular column.
The Obama Budget and Nonprofits
A “just the facts, ma’am” approach to understanding the first Obama Budget does not work any more than it did with the Bush Budgets. So I have included a few things here that I hope will be useful in understanding what bears watching.
Boards in Bad Times
My board chair and I exchange emails several times each week and it helps immensely. In this way she knows exactly what that next grant prospect means and she has a sense of the state of all our cockeyed schemes — what they have emerged from, where they are headed, and how they integrate with other efforts. Her willingness to stay engaged and in productive mode helps me communicate well with the whole of our board even when times are a bit tough.
Finding Nonprofits in President Obama’s FY2010 Budget
Welcome to the first NPQ/Cohen Report analysis of the federal budget proposals of President Barack Obama. Here we take a tour of the proposed FY2010 federal budget released to the public on May 7th to mine the meaning for the nonprofit sector. In this one, you’ll discover that the Obama Administration budget contains several programs of crucial importance for nonprofits, but it’s not all peaches and cream.
Emotional Life in Organizations: It’s Real, It Hurts if We are Different
There is no day at work that does not engender some emotion of one kind or another. Let’s face it. Our reality is our emotions and they are a part of who we are: they determine how we feel and how we behave and this in turn can hurt or heal those we come in contact. So, how we and others deal with the emotions that we bring to work each day determines what our day will be like.
Survival at Stake? Be More Donor-Centric
Finally the wake-up call for fundraisers is here: a bad economy.
The Nonprofit Quarterly’s Study on Nonprofit and Philanthropic Infrastructure
The Nonprofit Quarterly’s Study on (U.S.) Nonprofit and Philanthropic Infrastructure maps and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the network that supports nonprofits and philanthropy in the U.S. The study’s major findings have to do with who is getting best served among nonprofits and why but there is more here like lists of funders of the U.S. infrastructure and a very provocative sub-study of the financial models of infrastructure organizations.
Charities in the Calculus for Paying for Health Care Reform
It is hard to fathom the outcry of the nonprofit sector, almost in complete unanimity, against President Obama's proposal to cap the charitable deduction at the 28 percent tax level for households earning $250,000 or more. The opposition was and is, to our mind, fueled by an unattractive sectoral insularity, shaped by "sectoral leaders" who, in their successful advocacy against the tax proposal, are transforming the nonprofit sector from a steward of the public interest to just another special interest. There may be problems with the President's plan for paying for part of health care reform with a change in the tax deductibility of itemized deductions, but the debate within or by the nonprofit sector has been less than illuminating.
Boards in Bad Times (eNewsletter)
My board chair and I exchange emails several times each week and it helps immensely. In this way she knows exactly what that next grant prospect means and she has a sense of the state of all our cockeyed schemes — what they have emerged from, where they are headed, and how they integrate with other efforts.
The Worst Thing We Can Do for the Obama Administration: Be Quiet
Here’s the worst thing we can do for the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress: Be quiet.