Accountability

I have known for many years that nonprofit professionals are in a net-revenue results business. Besides treasure, we always are looking for time and talent. There is constant pressure to perform and achieve goals. Besides the obvious job-performance factors, we do engage with many interesting people. Our donors and prospects can provide moments in our lives that we relish...

By all accounts, Monday's Boston Marathon was a huge success, both as a triumph of human spirit and for charity. If it were included in Peer to Peer Professional Forum's "P2P Fundraising 30," last year's event would have ranked 17th among all P2P programs in 2015 gross total and second among single events. This year's race raised $16 million, so far. That should be cause for universal celebration, but not everyone is thrilled with the idea of Boston Marathon as charity run...

Proving there are no depths to which humanity will not descend for a couple bucks, a California woman has been charged with stealing $89,000 from an elementary school PTA, her daughter's Girl Scout troop and her son's Little League baseball team. Prosecutors on Friday charged Veronica Padarez, 37, with nine counts of felony grand theft by embezzlement, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune...

The law firm featured in what have become known as the Panama Papers allegedly used nonprofit names to obscure the origins of millions of dubious funds in offshore accounts, according to reports...

Would you like to accomplish more in a day, but you are not quite sure how? To help you out, we have searched the far corners of the Web to bring you the top 15 free productivity software programs that have attractive price points and promise to lighten up the workload...

I have a big chip on my shoulder. It’s not very attractive. It’s about folks who have time but do not volunteer to serve on a nonprofit board. And I’m not just talking about folks who are retired, are philanthropic and have time. I’m talking about pretty much everyone who doesn’t have babies spitting up…

On January 11, Mothers Against Drunk Driving launched its #FightAffluenza advocacy campaign. Its goal: get Ethan Couch, the "affluenza" teen who in 2013 received 10 years probation on four counts of intoxicated manslaughter, tried as an adult, rather than as a juvenile. On Wednesday, Couch was sentenced to nearly two years in prison, in large part due to MADD's advocacy efforts...

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara now has New York Mayor Bill de Blasio in his crosshairs—investigating de Blasio's campaign fundraising activities as part of a widening probe into New York Police Department corruption, sources said last week. The feds are looking at how the mayor solicits campaign cash from members of the real-estate industry—and the fundraising…

A nonprofit leader is suing her board of directors after being badly burned in an attack that aimed to cover up an internal embezzlement....

Did you know there were an estimated 2,810 fundraisers for Congress held from 2013 to 2014? That’s just one of the eye-opening Sunlight Foundation statistics John Oliver cited on the April 3 episode of “Last Week Tonight” to paint a picture of how much time elected officials spend fundraising. Oliver dedicated the entire episode to the topic of congressional fundraising—and just how horrifying it is for everyone involved...