Why allow powerful forces to define nonprofits, when even the smallest shop has the necessary tools at their disposal to match those forces with truthful and inspiring messages that tell its story? Here are a few tips on how you, too, can take control of your message.
Nonprofit Speech is Being Debated: Speak While You Can
Nonprofits (i.e., 501(c)(3) organizations for the purposes of this article) currently have extensive latitude to communicate with the public and elected representatives. This article warns against legislation that seeks to limit that ability.
Greatness, Greed, and Unscripted Reality
Is a nonprofit sector doing all it can to address the disaster wrought by the recent hurricanes?
Nonprofits’ Highest Calling: Fighting for the Rights of the Dispossessed
Nonprofits have a role and responsibility in ensuring that the nation’s response to Hurricane Katrina amounts to more than profit taking for the well-positioned.
How to Select and Use a Fund Development Consultant
For nonprofits with open eyes and motivation for change, hiring a fund development consultant can pay off in a big way.
Tech Success Stories: Innovative Uses of Technology by Nonprofits
Nonprofits are using information and communications technologies to support their missions in innovative ways. Many of these organizations are achieving great results with limited amounts of money and technical expertise.
“990 Super Number” Separates Charity Wheat from Chaff
The complaints started as soon as the Charity Evaluator® Web site completed its comprehensive analysis of efficiency and effectiveness and released its list of the top 100 charities in the U.S.
The Five Pillars: Nonprofits and Media
The third sector has always played a role in providing and guarding the quality and diversity of information available to us as actors in democracy.
Myth: Good Board Members “Give, Get, or Get Off.”
This question has been plaguing boards for some time and we would love YOUR opinion on it. Is the “give, get or get off” commandment for board members a hard and fast rule? Read Bill Ryan’s opinion first and then let us know what you think!
Welcome to Summer 2005
Welcome to the Summer 2005 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly. This issue was to have been our annual philanthropy edition, but as we considered the challenges of the current economic and political climate, that topic seemed a bit inadequate. In fact, the impact of philanthropic trends pales in the shadow of the larger economic and
The Nonprofit Ethicist | Summer 2005
The Nonprofit Ethicist helps readers untangle the problems faced by those in nonprofits. Send your submissions for inclusion in our next issue.
Our Updated Challenge: Building the (Co-) Ownership Society
Is the way we are currently using the capital available to us working during a period of declining social spending and greater inequality? Gar Alperovitz poses another way that might more effectively enhance community wellbeing.