Here are some of my favorite posts of the week: CauseGlobal: Six New Rules for Social Enterprise Start-ups | Social Enterprise http://bit.ly/b1zXYs #justmeans #socent #socialgood #bop #startups jefftrexler: Delaware adopts new nonprofit corp. law; among other things, must have members. Blah. http://bit.ly/dq4vsi philaction: Why every social entrepreneur should be...
One-Time Relief Program for Small Organizations that Failed to File Form 990 for Three Consecutive Years
From the IRS website (July 26, 2010): Tax-exempt organizations that fail to satisfy annual filing requirements for three consecutive years automatically lose their tax-exempt status. The IRS is providing one-time relief that will allow small exempt organizations to come back into compliance and retain their tax-exempt status even though they...
Cut Your Losses from Programs to Generate Non-Dues Revenues
GUEST BLOG POST By: Jim Seely, Esq. A few years ago there weren’t as many ways for executives to embarrass themselves and their associations with schemes which promised to provide the association the way to financial independence–deliciously described as non-dues revenues. Even then, some of these schemes were disastrous....
Tweets of the Week – July 23, 2010
Here are some of my favorite posts of the week: tactphil: Social Innovation Fund Announces Grantees http://bit.ly/9ruVVC (and I'm thrilled) GTak: What Do You Need to Know about Revocation of Tax-Exempt Status? – http://bit.ly/aRWvuA (Guidestar white paper) rosettathurman: NEW POST: 50 Young #Nonprofit Influencers You Should Be Following on...
Tweets of the Week – July 16, 2010
Here are some of my favorite posts of the week: COF_: Healthy democracy needs philanthropy http://bit.ly/brEjpz consciousgovern: My new article just published by ProBono Australia: The True Role of the Board – How Governance has been Hijacked http://bit.ly/bu10qB charitylawyer: Ultra Vires Acts – http://bit.ly/9xjbMg http://fb.me/DQjlgxmQ Give2Asia: Just released our...
Tweets of the Week – July 9, 2010
Here are some of my favorite posts of the week: DonKramer: If a company donates products to a #nonprofit to sell at an auction, what deduction will be available to the donor? http://bit.ly/9VYJo change: It's official: DOMA is unconstitutional! http://bit.ly/a9FAeM GTak: The Charity in Bankruptcy and Ghosts of Donors...
Nonprofit Mergers & Alliances (2nd ed.)
I'm currently reading the recently published 2nd edition of Nonprofit Mergers & Alliances by Thomas A. McLaughlin and can already recommend it to nonprofit executives and board members thinking about collaborations and/or mergers. Indeed, the book had me at "hello" or, rather, its first sentence: "The best time to...
Tweets of the Week – July 2, 2010
Here are some of my favorite posts of the week: tactphil: New Blog Post: Unitus: Mission Accomplished? http://bit.ly/9V8R9v WiserEarth: The Ultimate Guide to Social Entrepreneur Funding http://bit.ly/bR1ADB TonyMartignetti: In Oct. 2009 @oneicity interviewed me about charity registration, "state registration: what you need to know" http://bit.ly/aVFU5i charitylawyer: Six Smart Moves...
Foundations for the Common Good
Caring to Change, an independent project conducted in collaboration with the Aspen Institute's Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation, earlier this year released Foundations for the Common Good, a report written by Mark Rosenman on how grantmaking can be more effective if focused on the broader goal of advancing the "Common Good."...
Tweets of the Week – 6/25/10
Here are some of my favorite posts of the week: GTak: Great Resource List for Nonprofits from NGEC (including on collaborations and coalitions) – http://bit.ly/c5ZiEj via @aapip GTak: Nonprofit Collaboration and Merger Resources – http://bit.ly/brsB8R (Lodestar Foundation) GTak: Legit business model or not? Nonprofits contracting their founder for services...