The rate of non-elderly Americans without health insurance increased between 2016 and 2017 despite unemployment numbers dropping and a generally strong economy. The uninsured rate climbed from 10 percent in 2016 to 10.2 percent in 2017, the first increase since 2013, after significant declines driven by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The decline resulted in […]

Livestreaming fundraising is not unlike an old-fashioned donor event – except online. Supporters and donors raise money for your organization but it all takes place live on the Internet. Marc Almanzor, manager of development systems at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), presented “Livestreaming: Putting the Fun in Fundraising” during the recent Bridge to Integrated […]

Hospitals in California, both nonprofit and for-profit, are spending less on uncompensated care since residents have access to coverage because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as ObamaCare. According to data in a new report from California Healthline, acute care hospitals spent less than half on these patients in 2017 […]

What does the Alzheimer’s Association and its more than 2,000 employees have in common with Musicians On Call and its staff of 15? They were both winners in the NPT’s 2019 Best Nonprofits To Work For competition. Leaders at both organizations understand that to deliver mission you need to be both client-centric and flexible with […]

Consumer privacy is getting the attention of state and federal legislators. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was passed very quickly in mid-2018, without any serious vetting with impacted stakeholders, and will become effective in January 2020. CCPA introduces new privacy requirements, and while nonprofit organizations do not literally fall under the jurisdiction […]

Nonprofit executives believe that outcomes measurement supports their top three priorities for 2019 — financial stability, staff turnover and donor retention — but effectively measuring the outcomes of dollars invested is only happening in 29 percent of nonprofits. That’s happening even though 76 percent of nonprofit executives identified increasing the effectiveness of outcomes measurement as […]

Employee engagement is vital to an ecosystem of success. Finding and keeping a workforce of social good specialists is not easy in a gig economy. But there are nonprofits where life is good and productive for those the organization serves. Yours is probably a great place to work and you should be competing in the […]

Managers know that if there isn’t staff buy-in, you might succeed but not get to the level to which and initiative can climb. That includes fundraising and revenue generation. It comes down to two words: Emotional Intelligence (EI). The concept was researched by professors Peter Salovey at Yale University and John Mayer at the University […]

Funders put the budget and budget justification under a microscope. According to Barbara Floersch of The Grantsmanship Center in Los Angeles, Calif.: “You’ve got to get it right. When you understand their concerns and the questions they’ll pose, you’re in a much stronger position to nail it.” Here’s a list of questions funders are sure […]

It’s three years’ probation and home confinement for a former nonprofit official. Steven F. Harvin, 53, of New Haven, Conn., was sentenced in federal district court in Hartford (Conn.) to serve 60 days of probation in home confinement for stealing almost $33,000 from Zezzo House Corp. It is a federal case because of funding from […]

Former Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo will join The Obama Foundation in Chicago as its first president. Adeyemo will manage the foundation’s day-to-day operations, helping to implement the organization’s overall strategic goals and vision. During the past several years, the Obama Foundation, […]