Nonprofits News Archive
Wells Fargo Nonprofit Economic Dashboard for January 2010
This final dashboard of 2009 reports on year end giving, changes in revenue and the planning assumptions of Utah's nonprofits as they continue to meet the cultural, social and educational needs of our communities in 'the great recession'. We are all familiar with the traditional year-end giving campaigns that nonprofits…
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Are NPOS less 'competent'?
A new study from the University of Chicago mirrors some of the findings from our entrepreneur focus groups. While people think non profits are warm and fuzzy - they do not trust them with their purchases! "Across three experiments, we found that consumers hold stereotypes, or shorthand, blanket impressions about…
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Report on recession from Illinois
This from the Donors Forum survey of Nonprofits and grantmakers in Illinois. Sound familiar? Based on a November survey of nonprofits and grantmakers in the state: 71 percent of respondents had cut their budgets during 2009, 66 percent reported a reduction in operating reserves, 63 percent saying they had three…
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Threats to the nonprofit sector
Proacative blog from Lucy Bernholz (if you don't read her - you shoudl) She sees these threats to the special tax privieldges of sector as a whole: New corporate forms that recognize social businesses - like the L3C we have in Utah Tax credits for social businesses; Foundations' increasing interest…
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Nonprofit CEOs worth every dime (Forbes)
When the Chronicle of Philanthropy released its annual report on nonprofit salaries in October 2009, several journalists responded critically by accusing well-compensated nonprofit chief executive officers of being driven by financial gain rather than belief in the cause and by suggesting that these "bloated salaries" represent irresponsible spending by the…
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