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Nonprofit Website Mistakes: Lack of Transparency

The Nonprofit Consultant

I'm talking about your finances, your governance, and your management of the public trust. Because that's what a nonprofit is: A public trust. These days the public finds it hard to trust in many institutions (and who can blame them). Tags: web 2.0 And trust, in turn, inspires donations.

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What are we compaining about?

The Nonprofit Consultant

According to a new report from the Urban Institute, the growth of the nonprofit sector has outpaced the growth of the economy over the past decade. percent from 1994 to 2004, the nonprofit sector's revenues increased 61.5 percent of all reporting public charities, accounted for 58.7 percent of the sector's revenues in 2004, 41.1

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The Power of Zilch: An interview with Nancy Lublin

The Nonprofit Consultant

One of my pet peeves has always been when well-meaning, but somewhat clueless outsiders tell us in the nonprofit sector that we need to be "more businesslike." But my readers are all in the nonprofit sector. Many in our sector are saying, "We've already gotten by on Zilch, now we have less than Zero."

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Dot-Org Pride

The Nonprofit Consultant

, the TIAA-CREF campaign is aimed at the general public. Of course, we know that our nonprofit sector is not entirely scandal-free, and I'm sure the public realizes that as well. By emphasizing the "power of.org" to the public, TIAA-CREF not only advertises their business, but gives us all a good publicity boost.

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Yet more on percentage-based fundraising - AFP ups the ante

The Nonprofit Consultant

The impact of such charging, according to my anonymous letter writer, was detrimental to the sector. Maehara, CFRE, CAE, president and CEO of AFP: These are causes that are near and dear to the hearts of all Americans, but the public's generosity is being abused. the clients and communities served by the nonprofit sector?

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How will the Internet of Things change our world?

freshminds

A tag which a smartphone must 'tap' to register it e.g. purchasing cereal by tapping smartphone on the box or to track dosage of medicines given in hospital by whom and when. fact that will permeate throughout the public and private sectors of business for decades to come. NFC – Near Field Communication.

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What's Better than 40 Billionaires?

The Nonprofit Consultant

The publicity and many of the news stories focused on the first forty billionaires to sign the pledge, and the approximate dollar value of those pledges (at least $120 billion). Tags: giving donors the pledge Nonprofit money planning fundraising.