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Dear Nonprofiteer, Where, oh where, has my agency gone? Where, oh where, can...
Dear Nonprofiteer, Help! I’m the new-ish ED of an organization that serves victims of intimate violence. Our bylaws require that a certain percentage of the board identify as female. I get this, and am...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, How do I turn Board generosity into Board requests for...
Dear Nonprofiteer, I’m the ED of a growing nonprofit doing bridge-building work on a highly divisive social issue. Our work is getting rave reviews. Our Board, however, is really struggling with its...
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Are you a tax-exempt charity? Sure about that?
While it’s not yet true that “Illinois Does A Few Adult Films To Make Ends Meet”, the state has begun to cast lascivious glances at its nonprofits. Those property-tax exemptions look mighty...
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An appraising stare down the gift horse’s gullet
Jane Mayer’s excellent piece in this past week’s New Yorker about the brothers Koch, oil billionaires who’ve donated hundreds of millions to nonprofits promoting right-wing causes, finally clarified...
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Flip It to Fix It: A Cure for What Ails Us
Who are these people, and how did they get to be so smart? A new study has found that inverting state tax structures—whereby the highest income earners would be taxed at the current percentage of...
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By any other name . . .
The Nonprofiteer has never had much time for people who want to change the name of the sector to something non-”non”—something more positive, like “Civil Society Organization,” or less meaningful, like...
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Why the public should fund the arts, after all
The Nonprofiteer had a fascinating conversation with Margy Waller, a special advisor to Cincinnati’s ArtsWave, which leads the nation in evidence-based approaches to advocating for arts funding. Ms....
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The Nonprofiteer has been wondering what to write about . . .
but she’d really have preferred not to have this as an inspiration. There is no excuse for the decision of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, until now a respected source of information and funding in the...
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Give the people at Komen a piece of your mind . . .
as they seem to have lost their own. Komen’s decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood at the behest of an anti-choice Board member reminds us how ready the right wing is to sacrifice women’s health for...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, Whose money is too filthy to take, and why?
Dear Nonprofiteer: I’d be interested in your take on the Tucker Max/Planned Parenthood issue. That whole issue, which I’m sure you’ve touched on before, of NPOs making tough decisions about accepting...
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