Nonprofit Corporate Governance: The Board’s Role
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation; it is reposted to the Nonprofiteer by permission of the author Lesley...
View ArticleDear Nonprofiteer, What’s this “shared sacrifice” I keep hearing about?
Dear Nonprofiteer, My mom works for a small nonprofit that recently went through financial hardship. The organization did everything in its power to keep afloat, including (unfortunately) firing...
View ArticleTake me to the PILOT, once more with feeling
Here’s a new wrinkle in the ever-popular saga “Taxation of the Tax Exempt”: members of the Scranton City Council threaten to withhold zoning changes from owners of tax-exempt property unless they make...
View ArticleDear Nonprofiteer, Can a donor dictate the use of her gift? How about if...
Dear Nonprofiteer: I was wondering if it is ethical for an Executive Director to donate to the organization she runs, designating her donation to bonuses or pay raises for the employees that work for...
View ArticleA useful resource
The Nonprofiteer has been fascinated for the past several years by the uses nonprofits make—or fail to make—of highly-skilled volunteers, and has given a fair amount of advice on the subject to...
View ArticleDear Nonprofiteer, If I’m not supposed to know about it, how can I complain...
Dear Nonprofiteer:My wife is the development director for a nonprofit animal welfare organization. I am a dues-paying member of the group, which entitles me to a vote, and to have input at group...
View ArticleDear Nonprofiteer, How do we reach consensus on our Executive Director’s...
Dear Nonprofiteer: What is the best way for a Board to review its Executive Director? Our current review process involves each Board member’s completing a review of the ED and then our Board...
View ArticleFrom Law Students to Nonprofit Trustees
And now a word from the Nonprofiteer’s favorite guest poster, Lesley Rosenthal of Lincoln Center in New York: Making the rounds at law schools for Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits,...
View ArticleGiving Tuesday: A Holiday Tradition Worth Creating
This is glorious: someone figuring out how to divert some of that pointless holiday shopping into social good. Go bust some charity’s door today!
View ArticleDear Nonprofiteer, If a Board member’s gift falls before year-end, does it...
Dear Nonprofiteer, I serve on the board of a nonprofit. 100% of our board gives in some form monetarily throughout the year through event sponsorship, general giving, donations at events, etc. With all...
View ArticleDear Nonprofiteer, . . . And we all lived happily ever after, thanks to you!
Dear Nonprofiteer, It was at this time one year ago that I wrote to you about my horrible “School Director” job. Your reply helped me see that it was not only horrible, but hopeless. For six months,...
View ArticleWhat Price Democracy?
There’s an old joke about a man who asks a woman to sleep with him for $1 million. She agrees, whereupon he asks her to sleep with him for $1. “What kind of a girl do you think I am?” asks the woman...
View ArticleReally bad advice about year-end giving, and some really obvious responses
The Nonprofiteer just received an e-mail entitled “Five Things You Need to Know About Year-end Giving” which was distinguished primarily by the utter wrongness of each and every one of the items...
View ArticleIn other words
Another day, another idiotic Top 5 list, this one purporting to identify marketing trends in philanthropy. As it turns out, the list actually identifies what its author believes to be methods of...
View ArticleAnother place to hear from the Nonprofiteer
The Nonprofiteer has begun tweeting under the name of KellyNFP. (A.A.Milne: “Winnie the Pooh lived in the forest under the name of Sanders.” “What does that mean?” asked Christopher Robin. “It means...
View ArticleTranslation Services: What Does Venture Philanthropy Really Provide?
The Nonprofiteer threw a bit of a bomb at a meeting today. (“Now, dere’s a bolt from da blue,” as Andy Sipowicz would say.) Perhaps she should be sorry—but she’s not. After a group of young “venture...
View ArticleIf only this were the last word on “venture” philanthropy!
This is the smartest, ballsiest response I’ve seen to the omnipresent nonsense about how what’s wrong with philanthropy and charity is that they’re too soft-hearted and how all the problems of the...
View ArticleDear Nonprofiteer, If I smell a rat, should I just hold my nose?
Dear Nonprofiteer, I’m dealing with a tough situation and I could really use some help. I live in a quiet rural community outside of a large town. A neighbor moved away many years ago and turned his...
View ArticleThe ongoing question of what’s really a charity
Query whether a failure to file annual 990 reports should be grounds for determining that a nonprofit organization is not actually a charity, and therefore not eligible for property tax exemption....
View ArticleDear Nonprofiteer, When is a Board member not a Board member?
Dear Nonprofiteer: I came across your website as I was searching for information on Board members’ volunteering in programs. I’m wondering if you might have some advice on a situation I’m trying to...
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