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The Nonprofit Connection is Houston's one-stop resource for nonprofit management services. Whether you need a computer class, a consultant, a board retreat, a new board member or a meeting room for your next board meeting – the Nonprofit Connection is the place to go.
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| Be Careful What You Cut
In tough economic times, cuts in your development budget are likely to have unintended consequences. Consider these realities:
* Staff members start job hunting or jump at a new opportunity when the recruiter calls.
* Staff cut back on donor interactions, leaving major donors feeling disconnected – and more likely to give to those organizations who maintain high contact levels.
* Fundraising costs actually increase in terms of cost per dollar raised as administrative activities take an increasing percentage of work time.
* You lost contact with donors at a time when they are especially in need of touchstones, success stories and meaningful work that embodies their personal values.
* Stewardship activities that help retain donors are the first cut – even though research proves that it is more cost-effective to retain current donors than to secure new ones.
* When the post-recession bounce hits (and this is a historically documented reality), you will not likely be in donors post-recession giving plans.
Excerpted from "Creative Cost Cutting?" by Kevin Johnson, CFRE, in Advancing Philanthropy, March-April 2009.
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| Interpreting New Disclosure Requirements | |
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With all the extra work nonprofits have shouldered in this difficult economy, who has time for more paperwork? The fact is that everyone will have to make time in order to be in compliance with the new 990 requirements for public disclosure. The new 990 does ask nonprofits to specify how they make forms 990, 990-T and 1023 or 1024 (conflict of interest policy) governing documents and financial statements available for public inspection. Although the specific tax forms are required to be made available, the way it is done is optional.
Further, the only disclosure requirements are three years of the most current 990s and the Form 1023. There is no federal tax law requiring that governing documents, conflict of interest policies or financial statements be made available to the public. Tax forms can be made available on web sites like Guidestar.org; other requests for information beyond the 1023 can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Excerpted from NonProfit Times Newsletter 7/28/2009 |
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