Persistent legend: the “rampant inaccuracies” of nonprofit financial reporting on the IRS 990s.
A Self-Supporting Tradition: Alcoholics Anonymous Safeguards Its Autonomy
Heeding the advice of multi-millionaire John D. Rockefeller, founding members adopted self-sufficiency and self-determination as guiding principles.
So What’s the Full Value of Technology?
How do you assess the value of tools and strategies to make better technology decisions and investments.
Capacity Building: Beware the Easy Fix
Pablo doubts that funding capacity building projects is a wiser course than increasing general operating support to build capacity in-house.
Performance Evaluation: Stop the Insanity!
“Kicking the habit” is the only appropriate response.
Welcome: That’s Why Pencils Have Erasers
An introduction to the entire issue that goes over the importance of our major theme: financial management.
Trusting Your Employees: How Else Would You Want to Lead Your Organization?
Greenberg recounts how a little trust went a long way toward plucking New York’s Legal Aid Society from the brink of disaster.
Open-Book Management: The Nonprofit Application
A pioneer of open-book management in the business world translates the essentials of this practice to the nonprofit experience.
The When and Why of Outsourcing Your Financial Management
Who says you have to do it all yourself? Presented with a bewildering range of outsourcing options, the trick for nonprofit managers is not to “mistake medicine for magic.”
The Charleston Principles: Regulating e-Philanthropy
The Internet—which recognizes no borders—poses some questions for state regulators of charitable giving.
Getting Over the Fear of Money
Money is neither good nor evil—but longstanding social taboos about discussing it may place your organization at a big disadvantage.
An Executive Director’s Primer on Financial Management
A back-to-basics review of what you need to know, and who needs to do what, for a smooth-running organization.