ASAE Convention Draws Over 6,000 to Dallas | News content from Meetings Net

ASAE Convention Draws Over 6,000 to Dallas | News content from Meetings Net: ASAE, the Center for Association Leadership, welcomed over 6,000 delegates to its annual convention in Dallas, August 11-14. The mood among association executives and suppliers to the meetings community seemed ebullient after a tough couple of years of economic uncertainty, with attendees noting a good buzz on the exhibit hall floor and many educational sessions overflowing with interested delegates. It was ASAE’s highest attended event since 2007 in Chicago.

Chicago Charities Take In Kids as Strike Shuts Schools - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Chicago Charities Take In Kids as Strike Shuts Schools - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Chicago Charities Take In Kids as Strike Shuts Schools

September 13, 2012, 10:27 am

Chicago organizations that offer after-school and weekend youth programs are scrambling to accommodate children during weekdays as the city’s teachers walk the picket line, NPR reports.

New GuideStar Nonprofit Compensation Report Reveals Struggling Economy Continued to Affect Nonprofit CEO Compensation in FY 2010 - MarketWatch

New GuideStar Nonprofit Compensation Report Reveals Struggling Economy Continued to Affect Nonprofit CEO Compensation in FY 2010 - MarketWatch: uideStar--the leading source of nonprofit information--today published its 2012 GuideStar Nonprofit Compensation Report, the only large-scale analysis of its kind that relies exclusively on data reported to the IRS. Between 2009 and 2010, increases for incumbent CEO compensation started to creep back up at larger organizations, though still below levels seen before the economic meltdown. At organizations with expenses of $1 million or less, compensation increases were lower than during the period between 2008 and 2009

Congregants Going Online For Information - TheNonProfitTimes

Congregants Going Online For Information - TheNonProfitTimes: Roughly 22 percent of Americans have visited a place of worship’s website during the past six months. That includes having visited the website of a church or other place of worship in the past 30 days.

Fred Leeb: Who Cares About Nonprofit Finances? The Top 12 Reasons Why the Most Vulnerable Are at Risk

Fred Leeb: Who Cares About Nonprofit Finances? The Top 12 Reasons Why the Most Vulnerable Are at Risk: Who is Responsible to Ensure that Nonprofits Operate Most Efficiently?

Everyone and no one. While the great majority of people in the nonprofit world are good people, this doesn't necessarily mean that the financial system is functioning most effectively. When everyone and no one is responsible, it means that nonprofit clients/customers/patients can easily fall through the cracks because nobody without other vested interests represents them at the table. This is a tremendous flaw in our nonprofit system. The most vulnerable people often have:

Groupon raises money through online fundraising campaigns - The Washington Post

Groupon raises money through online fundraising campaigns - The Washington Post: Groupon raises money through online fundraising campaigns

Derrick Feldmann: Why the Nonprofit World Needs Millennials

Derrick Feldmann: Why the Nonprofit World Needs Millennials: And while generational generalities abound for today's Millennials just as they do for every 20-something cohort that comes of age and is let loose in the real world, we believe there is another story that is unfolding. It's one of diversity, tolerance and innovation that has yet to be fully realized. Today's Millennials are transforming communities, relieving suffering and pursuing social change in a way that may run counter to the traditional ways of organizing, but it's because they are wired to work differently -- collaboratively, transparently, interactively, and entrepreneurially -- to affect positive change in their local communities and around the world.

What can fundraisers learn from different cultures' charitable giving? | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional

What can fundraisers learn from different cultures' charitable giving? | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional: The differences in fundraising and charitable giving in different countries and cultures can give fundraisers pause for thought. As many countries are throwing off the old orders, how can fundraisers take advantage of new opportunities?

How charities can benefit from key performance indicators | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional

How charities can benefit from key performance indicators | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional: I can find no good reason why any charity cannot benefit in the same way as businesses from measuring its KPIs. The system for measuring need not be complicated and in its conception and implementation it should not be too expensive. To measure impact or results is the most basic of KPIs. Charities are obliged to publish what they spend but is not what they get for their expenditure just as important, if not more so?

Aftersocks quake fundraiser makes final of global... | Stuff.co.nz

Aftersocks quake fundraiser makes final of global... | Stuff.co.nz: A campaign selling socks to help Canterbury earthquake victims has seen Rural Women New Zealand in the running for a global fundraising award.

The organisation is up against two others in the big idea-small budget category in the Resource Alliance Global Awards, which recognise excellence in fundraising across 60 countries. The ceremony will be held in the Netherlands.

Gessler drops nonprofits' filing fee to $1 - Denver Business Journal

Gessler drops nonprofits' filing fee to $1 - Denver Business Journal: Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler will drop most filing fees for nonprofit organizations to $1 as of Oct. 1, he announced Tuesday — which is expected to cost his office $1.1 million in annual revenue but that he hopes will help nonprofits.

Philanthropy in Asia Summit ends as charitable giving grows in the region - The Washington Post

Philanthropy in Asia Summit ends as charitable giving grows in the region - The Washington Post: The inaugural Philanthropy in Asia Summit concluded Tuesday. The invitation-only gathering convened for two days in Singapore and brought together philanthropists to “experience new perspectives to old issues and meet like-minded” peers.

The event was organized by the Singapore-based National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, the California-based Global Philanthropy Forum, the Singapore-based Community Foundation and the London-based Resource Alliance .

Connecting Asian – American Philanthropy and Community Needs

Connecting Asian – American Philanthropy and Community Needs: As the fastest growing demographic group in the United States, Asian Americans are today one of the leading forces in giving – not only to their countries of origin, but increasingly to their local U.S. communities and across the globe. Many believe that as more and more Asian Americans—a group with an enormously varied national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds—take leadership roles in business, politics, and civic life, they are also are changing the face of U.S. philanthropy, making it more inclusive, impactful, and accountable.

Nonprofit Donations Seem to Be Recovering from the Recession::

massnonprofit.org ::: September 11, 2012 — While many nonprofits nationally are still recovering from the Great Recession and say they are having difficulty raising fund from affluent donors, a number of the largest charitable institutions in the Boston area say their donations have recovered to pre-recession levels.

Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that people of every income level wrote off $158-billion in charitable donations in 2009 and $172-billion in 2008, according to a report in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Specifically:

Giving by people earning $200,000 a year or more fell by $31 billion from 2007 to 2009.
Those who earned under $100,000 dropped their contributions by $4 billion.

90,000 attend Folk Festival, donate $132,000, organizers say – Culture Shock - BDN Maine Blogs

90,000 attend Folk Festival, donate $132,000, organizers say – Culture Shock - BDN Maine Blogs: Enough people attended the American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront and donated enough money to keep the festival going for another year, according to organizers.

The estimated attendance over the three days of the festival was 90,000 individual festival-goers making 120,000 total visits, according to a press release sent out by Executive Director Heather McCarthy.

Philanthropy on the rise in Asia - Channel NewsAsia

Philanthropy on the rise in Asia - Channel NewsAsia: SINGAPORE: Philanthropic giving has been on the rise in Asia over the past few years.

The trend is even more noticeable in China and India as both countries celebrate their economic success.

Speakers at the inaugural Philanthropy in Asia Summit in Singapore said the spirit of giving is fast catching on in other Asian countries.

Over 120 people attended the event which was co-organised by the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre, the Community Foundation of Singapore, the Global Philanthropy Forum and the Resource Alliance.

Second Charity Refuses Donations from Navy SEAL Author - Politics - The Atlantic Wire

Second Charity Refuses Donations from Navy SEAL Author - Politics - The Atlantic Wire: A second charity is refusing to accept donations from former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, author of the bestelling book No Easy Day about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, The Atlantic Wire has confirmed. The decision by the charities could loom large if the government takes legal action against Bissonnette.

Second Charity Refuses Donations from Navy SEAL Author - Politics - The Atlantic Wire

Second Charity Refuses Donations from Navy SEAL Author - Politics - The Atlantic Wire: A second charity is refusing to accept donations from former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, author of the bestelling book No Easy Day about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, The Atlantic Wire has confirmed. The decision by the charities could loom large if the government takes legal action against Bissonnette.

Nonprofits face an uphill financial struggle | The News Leader | newsleader.com

Nonprofits face an uphill financial struggle | The News Leader | newsleader.com: Ideas, dreams, and what if’s are the stuff that can make social change come about. Many nonprofits in existence today started out with a couple of people who shared a vision of community support for those in need. The more they shared the vision with like-minded people, the more momentum that idea gained.

Today we have national and local organizations that have sprung from those ideas, working in communities. The question is, what makes it possible for these ideas to take flight? And why do some succeed, while others struggle or fail?

More boomers aspire to careers with social purpose - CBS News

More boomers aspire to careers with social purpose - CBS News: ere go the baby boomers again, reinventing themselves and bucking tradition as they bear down on retirement.

This time they're leading a push into so-called encore careers — paid work that combines personal meaning with social purpose — in their 50s and 60s.

As many as 9 million people ages 44 to 70 already are in such careers as the second or third acts of their working lives, according to nonprofit think tank Encore.org.

What Every Nonprofit Board Needs to Know - Forbes

What Every Nonprofit Board Needs to Know - Forbes: In a recent interview with Alnoor Ebrahim, associate professor and faculty chair of the “Governing for Nonprofit Excellence” executive program at Harvard Business School, we discussed the current landscape of challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit boards. In addition, we discussed the evolving definition and practice of business in the 21st century.

Strategic Philanthropy: Who Wins and Loses? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

Strategic Philanthropy: Who Wins and Loses? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: I am beginning to believe that the notion of so-called “strategic philanthropy,” in all of its beguiling and shape-shifting forms, is a very powerful accomplice in transforming the funding ecology and structure of the nonprofit sector. Quite simply, it shifts the onus for creativity and decision making to those who have control of the finances and narrows, in many cases, the number of groups with whom philanthropists have to reciprocally communicate as they “focus” ever more acutely not just on the outcomes they hope for but on their preferred strategy for production of those outcomes.

Giving Slows At the Mid-Year Point: How to Respond - Press - AFP

Giving Slows At the Mid-Year Point: How to Respond - Press - AFP: Chuck Longfield, Chief Scientist for Blackbaud, notes that giving was increasing during the summer of 2011 by double digits, compared to the previous year. “If we had been able to keep that sort of growth going, we’d have seen fundraising restored to roughly 2008 levels.”

However, looking at the data from the Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving, Longfield notes that the improvements and increases in 2012 have been getting smaller and smaller each month—to the point that overall giving was essentially flat in May, and increased just 1.6 percent in June. “Between those drops and inflation, we’re basically at the same level of giving as we were last year at this time.”

9/11 Commemorations and Memorials | USA.gov

9/11 Commemorations and Memorials | USA.gov: Many Americans will serve in their communities in honor of 9/11 as part of the National Day of Service and Remembrance. Service projects range from food drives and home repairs to neighborhood cleanups and disaster preparation activities. In many areas, volunteers will honor veterans, soldiers, or first responders by collecting donations, assembling care packages, and writing thank you letters.