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AFP eWire
December 10, 2007 |
Nonprofit Sector Sees Significant Increase in Governance Changes Majority of charities have put in place new governance and accounting policies since the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley accountability law.   |
AFP eWire
January 21, 2008 |
Barely Half of All Charities Require Board Member Contributions A new survey by accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP reveals that just slightly more than half of charities require their board members to make financial contributions to their organizations. |
CFO
June 16, 2003
Bob Violino |
File Under 'Nightmare' Information overload has acquired a regulatory dimension, forcing senior executives to take notice. |
Entrepreneur
April 2007
David Worrell |
Ready to Report It may get a little easier for some small-businesses to play by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Susan L. Hirshman |
Calling on Nonprofits Financial advisors who present themselves as fiduciary experts can help nonprofit organizations while simultaneously expanding their own businesses. |
AFP eWire
May 5, 2006 |
Best Practices in Nonprofit Board Governance in Canada The first national study of Canadian nonprofit boards of directors provides an overview of current practices and identifies key strategies in creating a fully engaged board. |
AFP eWire
February 5, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of February 5, 2014): 10 Must-Have Elements for Nonprofit Websites Volunteer Management: 5 Ways To Get Leadership Engaged In Your Employee Volunteer And Giving Program... Donors: Monthly Donors: Small is beautiful!... Technology: 6 Strategies To Sending Mobile Friendly Emails... |
CIO
March 15, 2003 |
Mandate from SEC Regulators: Save Your Electronic Documents The rules take effect Oct. 31, giving CIOs seven months to deploy the capability to save records if they don't already have it. Here are some tips for getting started with a document retention plan that meets the spirit and letter of the law. |
AFP eWire
July 24, 2006 |
New Website to Collect Nonprofit Research A new website allows nonprofit organizations to post their research and other analysis on social issues free of charge. |
AFP eWire
November 20, 2006 |
Accountability, Impact Build Trust in Nonprofits for Wealthy Donors Providing evidence of what their contributions have accomplished and abiding by high levels of accountability are the two critical ways that nonprofits can build trust, especially for wealthy donors, according to a new survey. |
AFP eWire
May 31, 2004 |
IRS to Examine Nonprofit Executive Pay The director of exempt organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said that the agency plans to take a close look at how much top executives at nonprofit organizations are being paid. |
AFP eWire
September 8, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 8, 2014): Strategic Strategeries on Strategy! Donor Retention Strategies from Nonprofit Experts... Silent Auction Strategies that Increase Revenue... Find Out if Your Fundraising Writing is too "Latin."... |
AFP eWire
August 20, 2007 |
Most Nonprofit Boards Not Diverse or Involved in Fundraising Just 29 percent of boards were described as "very active" in fundraising, while 35 percent were ranked as "not at all active." |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004 |
For Nonprofits, "It's a How Crisis" Professor and author Paul Light says the biggest problem is underinvestment in infrastructure, which leads to more inefficiency at nonprofits. |
Foundation News & Commentary
May/Jun 2005
Wing et al. |
Paying for Not Paying for Overhead Many nonprofits are sacrificing organizational infrastructure needs to tell foundations what they want to hear about overhead costs. |
AFP eWire
December 13, 2004 |
Many Charities Misreporting Fundraising, Administrative Costs Public and donor pressure to keep administrative and fundraising expenses low may be leading nonprofit organizations to underreport such costs, according to a new study. |
AFP eWire
January 26, 2004 |
Fundraising Costs Project Conducts Case Studies An ongoing study to evaluate nonprofit fundraising and administrative costs is expected to release new findings in 2004. |
AFP eWire
October 22, 2014
Erik J. Daubert |
Get FIT and Improve Your Fundraising: The FEP's Fundraising Fitness Test Both the Fundraising Effectiveness Project and the Growth in Giving Initiative contain great secrets and insights into the issue of donor retention. |
AFP eWire
March 24, 2008 |
Google Offers Charities New Portal for Online Services A new portal, called Google for Nonprofits, is now available that provides charities access and guidance on how to use a variety of tools and resources that Google offers. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 24, 2007
Nancy Feig |
Survey Finds Technology Spending to Increase A survey of bank executives find most planning to increase technology spending. |
AFP eWire
July 24, 2013 |
Attention Small Nonprofits -- Donor Screening Services Are More Tangible Than You Think Even the smallest nonprofit can benefit from the resources available to the larger nonprofits, if they create a set of reasonable goals and expectations. |
AFP eWire
October 4, 2004 |
Nonprofits Continue Love/Hate Relationship with Internet While web usage is prevalent in the nonprofit sector, a majority of charities aren't satisfied with their web design and many still aren't seeing much traffic, according to a recent survey. |
AFP eWire
March 14, 2005 |
Website Back to Basics: Core Content Think a solid, interactive and even innovative website is just for the bigger charities? Think again. Here begins a five-part series on how smaller and mid-size organizations can get back to website basics and develop sites that resonate with donors. |
AFP eWire
May 15, 2006 |
Charities Face Major Challenges in Finding Funds for Capital Projects A new survey has found that while numerous charities have significant investment capital needs, including technology, program development and strategic planning, they face substantial challenges in accessing that capital. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2004
Allison H. Fine |
Blending the Bottom Line Nonprofits and grantmakers must meet each other halfway to move toward outcomes-focused approaches to collaboration. |
CFO
July 1, 2005
Bill Birchard |
Nonprofits by the Numbers In the wake of embarrassing revelations, high-profile scandals, and Sarbanes-Oxley, nonprofit CFOs are striving for greater transparency and accountability. |
AFP eWire
June 12, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (June 12, 2013) Ask an Expert: How to Raise Money With a Newsletter... I Won't Support My Grandma's Nonprofit... Ugly direct mail works... |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 29, 2005
Manda Salls |
How Organizations Create Social Value A recent study on the factors that contribute to successful high-performance social enterprises finds a connection between enterprises that link economic value with social value. |
AFP eWire
September 8, 2008 |
Recruit and Retain Quality Nonprofit Employees Organizations hoping to hire quality employees need to sell prospects on the big picture - focusing on rewards that come in other forms than a big paycheck, according to a recent roundtable of nonprofit recruiters, workforce experts and nonprofit practitioners. |
AFP eWire
May 20, 2014 |
Donor Retention -- The Talk of The Town Some of you may be thinking, "Retention? Enough Already!" The truth is - it's important, it's a hot topic and it's not going anywhere. |
AFP eWire
January 9, 2016 |
IRS Withdraws Substantiation Proposal Thanks to Thousands of Nonprofit Comments The Internal Revenue Service has dropped its proposal to create a new substantiation form that could have had charities asking for donor's Social Security numbers. |
AFP eWire
April 23, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (April 23, 2013) What Do Nonprofits Need More Than Funding?... 36 Fundraising Tips to Provoke Your Point of View, Sharpen Your Focus and Make You Laugh... Re-Imagining How To Decrease Donor Retention... |
CRM
February 2010
Jessica Tsai |
Helping Hands The nonprofit sector needs CRM more than it knows, but its relationships are with donors, members, or activists - and technology is rarely a cause worth fighting for. Will the low cost of on-demand solutions finally allow nonprofits to embrace CRM? |
AFP eWire
October 28, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of October 28, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Opportunities Missed From Too Many Fundraising Channels... The Dos and Don'ts of Donor `Thank You' Calls... Do You Know if Your #Fundraising is Failing?... |
AFP eWire
January 26, 2004 |
Nonprofits Struggle to Keep Talented Employees While most nonprofit employees are deeply committed to their jobs, low salaries, high workloads and the lack of opportunity for advancement make it difficult for the employees to stick with their jobs, a new report on Canada's nonprofit sector shows. |
AFP eWire
March 27, 2006 |
Nonprofit Executives Burning Out, Planning to Leave Jobs A survey of almost 2,000 nonprofit executives found that 75 percent are planning on leaving their jobs within five years, while another 10 percent are already in the process of switching job. |
AFP eWire
June 19, 2012 |
Websites, Email Newsletters Still Important to Smartphone-Wielding Young People Technology is changing rapidly, but there is good news for nonprofits and fundraisers trying to keep up. For one, websites and email are by no means obsolete, a recent survey of young people indicates. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
David A. Twibell |
Helping Nonprofits Profit Small and midsize nonprofit organizations can be great clients for financial advisors, but understanding their unique needs is critical to success. |
AFP eWire
December 17, 2014 |
Charitable Giving, Donor Retention Levels Increasing, Reaching Near Pre-Recession Levels For the fourth consecutive year, charitable organizations across the U.S. saw growth in both the level of funds they raised, as well as how well they retained donors from year to year. |
Food Processing
August 2005
Dave Fusaro |
Top 100 for 2005: This chicken comes first Tyson unseats Kraft as king of the U.S.-Canada food & beverage industry... Exclusive results of the first Grant Thornton-Food Processing Survey of Food & Beverage Companies... |
CRM
May 28, 2014 |
Salesforce.com Foundation Unveils Salesforce1 for Nonprofits New solutions offer tools for program management, community engagement, marketing communications, and fundraising. |
Job Journal
April 11, 2004
Jennifer Corkery |
Fundraisers & Grant Writers Fundraisers and grant writers prove indispensible to nonprofits. |
CFO
December 1, 2002
Joseph McCafferty |
Fault Lines Did its auditor, Grant Thornton, cause the downfall of tiny Carnegie International? Or is Carnegie seeking a scapegoat? |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jan/Feb 2005
Lee Draper |
Where the Money is: Tapping Overlooked Sources of Support for Nonprofits Where will the funding come from to enable nonprofits to serve more people? How can nonprofits find the capital to reorganize for greater efficiency and economies of scale or to invest in new ways to address growing social needs? |
AFP eWire
June 16, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of June 16, 2014): How Often Should You Thank Recurring Donors? Marijuana Event Brings Money and Attention to Colo. Symphony ... 4 Ways to Improve Your Fundraising Ask... How Often Should You Thank Recurring Donors?... |
Searcher
February 2004
Hazel Cameron |
The Nonprofit Phenomenon Internet resources for nonprofit organizations |
AFP eWire
June 9, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of June 9, 2014): 34 Powerful Ads That Made Me Really Stop and Think 34 Powerful Ads That Made Me Really Stop And Think... From Sea to Shining Sea, America is Charitable!... The Great Peer to Peer Fundraising Donor Debate... |
Job Journal
November 30, 2008 |
First Steps on a Nonprofit Career Path Inside insights on how to be in the right place at the right cause. |
AFP eWire
March 16, 2009 |
Nonprofits Pinched in Changing Economic Landscape A new report reveals some of the challenges faced by the nonprofit sector as a result of the economy and provides public policy recommendations to help spur nonprofit recovery. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004
Joseph Weber |
Auditors Asleep At The Wheel. Sound Familiar? Parmalat's collapse seems like deja vu all over again. That's because two of the tainted parties are accounting firms: Grant Thornton and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. One red-faced party is Italy's government, whose effort to build safeguards didn't work. |
