January 2015 marks our 10th Anniversary at NEO Law Blog. While it’s important and nice to reflect on the past, the beginning of a new year is a great time to get creative and move forward. Have a listen to the Counting Crows’ A Long December while perusing our curated nonprofit tweets of the week:

• Solo Practice U: Before Setting New Goals, Evaluate the Previous Ones – NYTimes
• Gene: 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Nonprofit Board http://bit.ly/1B35ooL #corpgov #governance
• Philantopic: 7 New Year’s Resolutions for Foundations to Strengthen the Nonprofit Sector http://owl.li/GDB0J @ncrp #nonprofits #philanthropy
• Law for Change: Nonprofit Year-End Checklist http://law4ch.org/1xv1iGL @cullinanelaw #nonprofitlaw
• Sandra Feinsmith: End of the Year Compliance for Nonprofits
• Ellis Carter: Financial Transactions with Your Board: Who Is Looking? – NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly
• Gene: IRS Says Agreement With For-Profit Won’t Jeopardize Nonprofit Group’s Exempt Status http://bit.ly/1viQx2T #socent
• Debra Beck: 5 Questions for every new #nonprofit board member: Grt read by @leadingbydesign Leading By Design
• Debra Beck: Creating #Nonprofit board learning environments: 2015 blog theme http://bit.ly/13Nm0nD

Bonus Tweets highlighting some top resources of the year:

• CompassPoint: Our most-viewed post from our blog this year: http://ow.ly/G8JV9 Did it strike a nerve with you as well? [Ed. “Are We Addicted to Urgency?” is a highly recommended read!]
• Stanford Social Innovation Review: Check out this year’s 10 most popular SSIR articles: http://ow.ly/GcvXj #philanthropy #nonprofit #socent
• Center for Effective Philanthropy: No. 3 most popular blog post of 2014: “Taking Aim” by @PhilCEP http://ow.ly/G00W8 [Ed. A good discussion of the shift in thinking about public criticisms of foundations and mega-donors.]
• Philantopic: Best of PhilanTopic: 2014 Edition http://bit.ly/1rA5fHy #leadership #millennials #nonprofits #philanthropy #socmedia
• Jesse Lyn Stoner: NEW: 2014 in Review – My Top 10 Blog Posts: http://ow.ly/Gwzaw [Ed. Great leadership posts from one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers.]
• Gene: Links to scholarly articles on social enterprise & hybrid legal entities via Nonprofit Law Prof Blog http://bit.ly/1viR9FM #socent
• 99U: Best of 2014: Top Tips, Insights, & Tricks http://bit.ly/1ySj2Xl
• Fast Company Exist: The 9 best visualizations of 2014 http://f-st.co/za4YuT7