Yes, we have 990s, but also a raft of other data that is available for those who want to do nonprofit analysis.
Financial Strategy Tools: Cohort Analysis
Cohort analysis is an essential step in strategic planning; instructions and spreadsheet included.
Evaluation and Foundations: Can We Have an Honest Conversation?
There are a number of aspects of the culture of foundations that contribute to their ambivalence. Tom David poses a few questions, and makes a few recommendations, to help improve the nonprofit/foundation relationship.
Caribbean Techies Snare Innocent Bystander in Charity Wealth Scam
Marijo asked if I knew how contributions were made from the charitable gift funds at the big companies like Fidelity, and that’s how the whole mess started.
Bleeding-Edge Technologies: New Challenges for Nonprofits
Web 2.0 and open source have opened new potential at lower risk for nonprofits who need to build capacity at lower cost.
Welcome to Spring 2006
Many nonprofits used to be able to operate in dark corners like the small purviews of a particular city or region. That is, they would not necessarily be judged against peer programs in other cities nor, necessarily, against a generalized assumption about what constituted good practice. Local observation, reputation, and all important relationships were first
Harnessing the Power of Technology for Evaluation
Technology offers nonprofit organizations the opportunity to design and implement more effective evaluations for improving program performance while doing so at lower cost.
Welcome to Winter 2005
Welcome to the Nonprofit Quarterly’s first “Best of the Quarterly” issue. This marks NPQ’s sixth anniversary and such a retrospective is well past due. Thanks to our contributors, the NPQ has published some classics that stand the test of time in terms of their usefulness, and which provide a unique new perspective on issues that
Evaluating Foundations (To Whom, for What, and Who Says?)
If foundations have no market forces and few legal constraints to hold them accountable, is it any wonder that their evaluative efforts have fallen short? Can the value of “expressive philanthropy” be measured?
Is Accountability the Same as Regulation? Not Exactly.
Even the smallest nonprofits can’t and shouldn’t sidestep the runaway steamroller of the accountability conversation. Its motor is on and it’s got plenty of gas. Furthermore it is a legitimate issue for us all. Much better we leap aboard and try to help steer the conversation.
Nonprofit Conspiracy of Silence
Regardless of whether it is driven by politesse or short sighted self interest, nonprofit leaders are demonstrating a lack of probity at a time when it is most needed.
Nonprofit Truth or Consequences: The Organizational Importance of Honesty
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Organizational untruths are pervasive and corrosive, explains Belton. Truth telling is an essential practice that helps people thrive in their organizations while leading to increased individual and collective energy.