May 19, 2012

In The News

3-Minute Vacation: Bring Your Local Pub to You!

April is a very competitive month. The NCAA basketball tournament (and all of the office pools that come along with it) has just wrapped up, baseball season has begun, NHL hockey playoffs are in full swing, and the NBA basketball post-season is right around the corner. So let’s bring a competition out of the pubs [...]

Getting Real About Real-Time Evaluation

Every once in a while a field creeps closer to actually being helpful to nonprofits. Thanks to evaluators Claire Nolan and Fontane Lo for explaining a type of program evaluation — and how to make it work for you. Have you ever had an evaluation conducted for a program, and then waited months—or even years—for [...]

New Employee Rights Posting Requirements for April 30, 2012

Dear Rita: I was told that most employers have to post a notice  regarding employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act(NLRA) effective April 30, 2012. But I thought the NLRA applies to union relations. We are a tiny nonprofit and our employees are not union members so I don’t know if the posting requirement [...]

Charitable Deduction The Focus of U.S. Senate Hearing

How much would charitable giving be impacted — and which donors and organizations would be affected most – dominated a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday regarding charitable giving incentives. Amid talk of floors and ceilings on tax deductions and potential tax credits, some warned that now is not the time to experiment with tax [...]

Land Your Dream Nonprofit Job

News that hiring in non-profit organizations could be picking up may provide an incentive to consider a career change. However, the transition from working in the for-profit world to a non-profit career is not always an easy switch. Are you out-of-luck if you haven’t already delved into working with “mission organizations,” or is there still [...]

Nonprofit Employers Don’t Meet Workers’ Needs for Job Satisfaction, Surveys Find

Two reports released Monday show a disconnect between what nonprofits provide to their workers and what employees say is essential to their job satisfaction. Seventy percent of workers in two surveys said their jobs were either disappointing or only somewhat fulfilling. That might be a reason 25 percent of workers said they were considering looking [...]

Jim Lehrer of PBS Newshour to Visit Wichita

On December 6 KPTS will host a reception for Jim Lehrer, a Wichita born, journalist and former PBS Newshour anchor and author who is widly known for his moderation of Presidential elections.  In fact, Lehreer has moderated eleven nationally televised dabates in the last six elections. His book, Tension City, gives readers a closer look into the moments [...]

Data Philanthropy Is Good For Business

The digital revolution of the first decade of the 21st century now has all of us producing vast amounts of data, just by going about our daily lives. Today we are swimming in an ocean of data, most of which didn’t exist even a few years ago. One of the defining challenges of the second [...]

Corporate Giving In 2011

Charitable giving by America’s biggest companies will probably be flat in 2011, after a sharp rebound in 2010, according to a Chronicle survey of 180 of businesses. Cash giving rose by 13 percent, a relief to charities after the recession caused a decline of 7.5 percent by companies in 2009. When companies add the value [...]

How Much Advocacy Is Too Much?

As the leader of a nonprofit organization and a concerned member of society, “Michael” stays tuned in to the issues of the day and the latest legislation that may affect his organization and his broader community. When there is a bill introduced in the city council, state legislature, or in Congress that may be of [...]

Effective Delegation

Delegating effectively can not only reduce the director’s workload, it can also provide a platform for employee growth and learning.  Join nonprofit leaders as we discuss how to determine what can be delegated, how to communicate needs, establish timelines, and monitor progress. DATE:  May 8, 2012 TIME:  11:30 AM– 1:00 PM LOCATION:  Independent Living Resource [...]

Volunteer Your Way Into a New Job

Job seekers should consider a new mantra: “Give back, and you shall receive.” Including volunteer experience on your resume could help you land a job, according to a new survey. Some 41% of nearly 2,000 professionals said that when evaluating candidates’ resumes, they consider volunteer experience to be equally as valuable as paid work experience, [...]

Nonprofit Job Growth Nearly Flat in 2010

The growth in nonprofit jobs slowed in 2010 compared with other recent years, according to a new analysis of U.S. labor statistics. The number of nonprofit jobs grew by just under 1 percent from 2009 to 2010, according to a study of figures in 45 states by the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Civil Society [...]

QR Codes for Nonprofits

You’ve probably seen QR codes, which look and act like the oddly patterned cousins of grocery store checkout bar codes — you scan them to automatically receive information — but do you know what to do with them? They can be scanned with a smartphone camera to provide more information about a product, or to [...]

Social Media Checklist

So you’ve decided that your company can no longer sit out the 24-hour virtual cocktail party that is today’s marketplace. But before you brave the new world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Ning, and others, take some words of advice from industry leaders. 1. Think about your customer first, says Sam Ford, director of customer [...]

Budgets: Economic Environment Adaptations

  Prolonged financial pressure on nonprofits is creating the need for leaders to re-evaluate budgets.  In this session, leaders will discuss the decisions that have to be made regarding services provided, new funding sources, collaborations, partnerships, assessing programs and needs, and more. Should programs be eliminated, or performed more efficiently via collaborations?  Can we replace [...]

Charitable Deduction Not Touched in Debt-Ceiling Deal

A new law to increase the debt-ceiling limit does not make any changes in the tax deduction that donors receive for making charitable gifts. The law, which President Obama signed Tuesday, seeks to trim the federal deficit by almost $2.5-trillion over the next 10 years. It identifies $900-billion in spending reductions now and requires Congress [...]

A Focus on Signature Programs Can Help Charities Gain Grant Makers’ Support

With government money fast receding, many nonprofit groups are hoping that private foundations could be their salvation. But with foundation assets still well below their high-water marks of 2006, how can nonprofits possibly hope to win bigger grants from those funds—or, even more difficult, catch a grant maker’s attention for the first time? To answer [...]

From Fundraising To Resource-Raising

New report advises charities to get strategic about donated resources When I had the chance, through the Clore Social Leadership Programme, to carry out research that would bring some new, practical knowledge to the sector I drew on seven years’ fundraising experience to identify my subject. I knew that modern high value donors increasingly wanted [...]

Find Money for Building Capacity

The below article is part 6 of an ongoing blog series at Social Velocity By Nell Edgington.  Part 6 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, demonstrates the critical importance of money for building nonprofit capacity and describes how to find it. There must be a recognition in the nonprofit sector, and among the [...]

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