As nonprofits look ahead to July, remember that it isn’t just the season for fireworks and barbecues. It’s also the time when many nonprofits will enter new or renewed contracts and grant agreements with governments.
In March, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits collaborated with the Minneapolis-based Nonprofits Assistance Fund to co-host a conference on financial sustainability for nonprofits. The conference was a sell-out.
As nonprofits, we are healers. We are protectors. We educate and we enrich lives. And much more. But we can’t do anything without the public's trust.
One of the roles the National Council of Nonprofits plays - along with our network of State Associations of nonprofits - is to keep you up-to-date and informed about emerging trends that may affect the operations of your charitable nonprofit.
With data gathered from the Nonprofit Finance Fund showing that - for the past seven years – increasing demands on nonprofits outpace their ability to provide services to meet the demands, every board member should be raising the question, “...
This article originally appeared in the February 2015 GuideStar Newsletter.
Since new rules for government grants and contracts became effective in late December, traditional publications and the blogosphere have come alive with the news...
While we wish we could just wave a wand, magical thinking won’t stop those who rate and rank nonprofits by focusing on the cost of a nonprofit’s operations. So what can nonprofits do to shake off this aversion to costs?
It’s an undeniable fact: Spending on “overhead” is needed to accomplish your work.
