NonProfit Pro
May 1, 2015
Announcing the winners of the 2015 Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards. Category: Rising Stars.
May 1, 2015
Announcing the winners of the 2015 Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards. Category: Fundraiser of the Year.
May 1, 2015
Announcing the winners of the 2015 Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards.
May 1, 2015
Announcing the winners of the 2015 Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards. Category: Nonprofit Professional of the Year.
April 30, 2015
The St. Louis Cardinals are suing a nonprofit for fraud, alleging that it scalped thousands of choice game tickets for profit that were supposed to be used to support youth baseball.
The Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which according to the suit runs the Lewis & Clark Baseball League, was allotted 3,500 tickets last year at a discounted price through the team's Ticket Consignment Contracts program, the suit says. The program provides cash grants and discounted tickets to youth-focused charities.
The tickets were supposed to be used for fundraising efforts to support youth participation in amateur baseball, according to the suit.
April 30, 2015
The practice of fundraising is constantly changing to take advantage of new technologies, shifts in donors' preferences, lower-cost options, and so much more that affects the way we do business as fundraisers. Each time I teach a course in fundraising, I am reminded of the very thin line between what I can teach from years and years of solid experience—and what I teach based heavily on what I have read, heard and to a lesser degree, done.
April 30, 2015
Recent tweets from folks you should follow.
April 30, 2015
The National Football League is giving up its controversial tax-exempt status, according to the New York Times.
With both Commissioner Roger Goodell and Houston Texans owner Robert McNair calling it a "distraction," Goodell said in a letter to team owners that "the league office and its management council will file tax returns as taxable entities for the 2015 fiscal year." The commissioner made the switch after team owners gave the league's finance committee and management council the authority to change the tax status at meetings in March.
According to Bloomberg News, Goodell's memorandum said the NFL's tax-exempt status had...
April 30, 2015
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Florida rule that said that candidates for judicial office could not personally solicit funds while they are candidates.
"Judges are not politicians, even when they come to the bench by way of the ballot," Chief Justice John Roberts in an opinion joined by the liberals on the bench. "A State may assure its people that judges will apply the law without fear or favor—and without having personally asked anyone for money."
Thirty-nine states use elections to select some of their judges, and 30 of those limit the ways that judicial candidates...
April 30, 2015
Over the past couple of months a number of nonprofit executives have reached out to me regarding their fundraising events. You'd be right—and wrong. What I'm really focused upon is getting clarity in your fundraising program objectives and then choosing the vehicles that will achieve those objectives.
