Charity Navigator Adopts Change in Rating System
Moves beyond evaluating charities based solely on their financial performance The watchdog group Charity Navigator revamped its ratings system this week as part of a plan to move beyond evaluating...
View ArticleThe Nonprofit Sector’s Future?
A quest for hybrid companies that profit, but can tap charity A new type of company intended to put social goals ahead of making profits is taking root around the country, as more states adopt laws to...
View ArticleWhite House Forum Addresses Nonprofit Leadership Issues: Anything New Here?
Blogger Heather Carpenter reported on the White House Forum on Nonprofit Leadership by monitoring the content of the participants’ social media postings, and concluded, “What’s being said at the Forum...
View ArticleThe ‘Third Rail’ of Nonprofits: Overhead
Overhead is a touchy subject for many nonprofits. Donors who want most or all of their contributions to support an organization’s cause may be overly critical of administrative costs and other...
View ArticleCalling All Boomers: Don’t Start More Nonprofits
Many people probably rejoiced when they heard about a study released last week showing that 12 million baby boomers want to start their own nonprofit or socially oriented business over the next...
View ArticleHalf of Charities Say Holiday Giving Season Has Been Happy
With less than two weeks left before the holiday giving seasons ends, many charities have already raised more compared with 2010—and some are even expecting a windfall, a new Chronicle poll finds…...
View ArticleWhat Women Want (to Give)
As women gain more access to education and income, they’re an increasing force in philanthropy. To better understand their influence, Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently commissioned a study by The...
View ArticleCharities Profiting Via Online Retail Sites
What if a percentage of the $150 billion spent annually in online shopping could be donated to nonprofits working to make the world a better place? … Read more
View ArticleWorld’s “First Micro-volunteering Network” Launches
The new Web-based platform Sparked is using the tagline “Online volunteering for busy people,” encouraging working professionals to volunteer for the causes they care about. Sparked allows anyone to...
View ArticleState of Social Enterprise: 2012
Following President Obama’s State of the Union speech, we thought this would be a good time to evaluate the state of the social enterprise sector. So here is the npEnterprise Forum’s official,...
View ArticleGuideStar
Information on financials, programs, missions, expert reviews, and more are now provided in new format GuideStar, the leading source of nonprofit information, today announced a new and improved design...
View ArticleFor Nonprofits, Time to End Business-as-Usual
Working in mid-town Manhattan, it’s easy to believe the pundits and politicians who talk about the “financial crisis” in the past tense. Restaurants are full and sidewalks are packed with tourists. It...
View ArticleNew Study of Nonprofit Financial Literacy Misses the Mark
Today, you may be subjected to yet another round of specious judgment about the management skills of nonprofit organizations. This is thanks to a newly-released report, “Financial Literacy and...
View ArticleIs Corporate Philanthropy Hampered by Shareholders?
If we were holding a contest for “most depressing headline,” this one from Reuters might be in contention: “U.S. investors lack interest in companies doing good.” This was apparently the prevailing...
View Article2012 State of the Nonprofit Cloud Report
In the second half of 2011, when we set out to look at the “State of the Nonprofit Cloud”, we weren’t sure what to expect—and what we found after surveying US nonprofits and conducting follow-up...
View Article‘New York Times’ Drops Philanthropy as Special Area of Coverage
The New York Times has eliminated its philanthropy beat, a move that could make it harder for nonprofits to get their stories told to a national audience… Read more
View ArticleThree Shifts Seen as Shaping Nonprofit Sector’s Future
At the recent annual meeting of Northern California Grantmakers, keynoters Lucy Bernholz of Philanthropy 2173 and Stanford University’s Rob Reich discussed three forces of change—what they call (and...
View ArticleNational Council of Nonprofits Absorbs Center for Lobbying in the Public...
This morning, a significant realignment of the national nonprofit infrastructure occurred. The National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) has just announced a plan to absorb the Center for Lobbying in the...
View ArticlePride & Prejudice: (What) Can Nonprofits Learn From the For-Profit World?
No one, least of all I, would argue nonprofits do anything less than important work. In addition to providing vital art, theater and music experiences, as Senator Bradley once noted, nonprofits have...
View ArticleMajority of Seniors Now Online
For the first time, the majority of U.S. adults over 65 use the Internet or email, according to a new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The rapid growth of Internet use among...
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