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Up Front — Your Nonprofit Consultant
Archive for June, 2011
The Care and Feeding of Donors
June 29th, 2011
by Peter R. McGrath One of the primary ways to increase fundraising is to work with your current donors. A nonprofit can spend a lot of money on techniques to increase its number of new donors, yet often pass up some simple steps to ensure that current donors stay engaged in the mission and contribute–again [...]
Good Governance Brings a Smile to Your Revenue Agent
June 28th, 2011
by Peter R. McGrath Once you’ve completed your annual reporting on Form 990, you mail it off to the IRS and, if everything is OK, you never hear anything. Yet all those 990s do get looked at carefully by revenue agents. Recently, the IRS released a set of guidelines it expects agents to use when [...]
Secure Your Most Valuable Assets
June 27th, 2011
by Mark Fabbri When you think of the resources that are stored in your donor database, it’s amazing how little attention is paid to protecting your organization’s most valuable assets–your donors and their records. Limiting users and assigning passwords is only one small part of securing this information. As the administrator of your organization’s database, [...]
Treat Your Tax-Exempt Status Like Gold
June 24th, 2011
by Peter R. McGrath Most people have a tendency to see the world from their own point of view. This truism was evident at a recent briefing I attended on the federal reporting Form 990 and all its pomps and works. Midway through the presentation on current and future changes to this reporting tool the [...]
Board of Directors and Staff: Finding the Balance
June 23rd, 2011
by John D. Golenski, EdD Phenomenally, more than 10 percent of all businesses in the United States fall into the nonprofit category. By statute all of these corporations have some governing board that oversees the legal, fiduciary, and policy concerns of a nonprofit company. In addition, nonprofits have a staff that carries out day-to-day operations, [...]
