Renz provides a different framework for thinking about the tradeoffs between different funding sources and their influence on the organization.
Straw to Gold: Three Years On
For three years now, the Nonprofit Quarterly has charted the progress and response of five nonprofits as they have creatively confronted shifts in the environment. A little over a year since our last update, each of these organizations has something to teach the rest of us.
The Enduring Connection: Individual Donors and Nonprofit Organizations
We asked some well-known fundraising advisors help us identify groups doing a good job with grassroots fundraising. We didn’t want fancy but we did want effective.
How We Survived An Embezzlement
What do you do when you discover you’ve been embezzled? Erickson recounts her organization’s experience and how it made the best of a terrible situation. NPQ reprints this instructive article from the Grassroots Fundraising Journal.
Nonprofits Help Make Us Good Citizens
A new source of data allows us to examine the relationship between voluntary activity and citizen engagement.
High Stakes: Why and How Nonprofits Must Engage on State Tax Policy
As anti-tax forces become increasingly trenchant across the country, some nonprofits are mobilizing their constituents on revenue issues, and winning.
Planned Ghouling: The Dark Side
After many years in nonprofits and foundations, I thought I knew almost every aspect of how modern fundraising works. That was before September when I found out that my favorite aunt, Great Aunt Alma, was seduced by a handsome, slick-talking development officer from Mammon University.
Welcome to Spring 2005
Welcome to the Spring 2005 issue. This issue’s feature section was fun to put together and, we hope, will be just as much fun for you to read. We think of it as Nonprofits: the Reality Show, because it takes real life stories of six organizations and presents them as snapshots in time—warts and all—although
Patterns, Stories, and Systems: The Stuff of Our Work
Understanding where we want our organizations to go depends greatly on understanding where we are and how our organizations behave under different conditions. The case studies in this edition are an opportunity to look at patterns of organizational behavior and apply them to our own situations.
The Story of Christian Family Services
With a board that that has drifted from the staff and community over time, the new leadership at CFS is facing the challenge of renewal of its faith-based roots amid financial challenges and systemic changes.
The Story of The National Museum of Craftsmanship
Facing perhaps the biggest challenge of its unconventional but successful history, the Museum is preparing for the departure of its charismatic founder.
The Story of United Neighborhoods
UN is part of the fabric of its community, but an increasingly difficult funding environment and a budget that is “tight as a drum” has forced cutbacks and eroded the organization’s programs and morale.