The #1 reason, cited by almost 60% of respondents, is that they were "no longer feeling connected to the organization."
And how many stopped giving? 38% of wealthy donors stopped giving to one organization in 2007; 26% stopped giving to at least two organizations.
HT: The AgitatorThe job of the group granted full accountability and full authority for value produced on behalf of those who morally if not legally own the organization. The servant-leadership work of the highest and initial authority within the organization.
By making full and accurate information about its mission, activities, finance, and governance publicly available, a charity encourages transparency and accountability to its constituents. The Internal Revenue Code requires a charity to make its Form 1023 exemption application, Form 990, and Form 990-T, available for public inspection. The Internal Revenue Service encourages every charity to adopt and monitor procedures to ensure that its Form 1023, Form 990, Form 990-T, annual reports, and financial statements, are complete and accurate, are posted on its public website, and are made available to the public upon request. Organizations that file Form 990 will find that Part VI, Section C, Lines 18 and 19, ask whether and how an organization makes its Form 1023, Form 990 and Form 990-T, governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public.
Policy Governance® enables a board to:
Corporate bylaws are not filed with the Secretary of State. Bylaws are kept at the corporation's principal executive office (if located in this state) or the corporation's principal business office in this state. The bylaws shall be open to inspection by the shareholders at all reasonable times during office hours. If the principal executive office of the corporation is outside this state and the corporation has no principal business office in this state, it shall, upon the written request of any shareholder, furnish to such shareholder a copy of the bylaws as amended to date.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and NeighborWorks® America are hosting a series of one-day informational seminars in high-foreclosure cities around the country to help support counseling, mitigation and outreach efforts to distressed homeowners.
These seminars will provide participants with an overview of the foreclosure process and industry access that will be helpful in providing guidance to their clients and constituents at risk of foreclosure. Discussions will focus on opportunities and strategies for working with financial institutions and loan servicers in each area to help troubled borrowers.
For information on these seminars, click here.
The event is Los Angeles is Tuesday July 29, 2008.
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Half Day)
Fee: varies (see chart)
Instructor: Glen Peterson
Course Code: FR 76
Course Description
Organizational capacity is the foundation for growth and sustainability. Organizational assessment is important to recognize and celebrate strengths—both used and untapped—and to identify areas for growth. A good assessment process will help draw out diverse viewpoints within the organization, bring blind spots into view, and strategically address a variety of capacity areas. We will explore the cycles of organizational development and provide tools for building an appropriate plan for capacity development.
The purpose of the grant program is to promote and support projects that address economic self-sufficiency for low-income persons and distressed communities by awarding funds to CDCs to create employment and business development opportunities.
For the 2008 grant cycle, Congress did not provide funding for new Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) grant awards. Unfortunately, this means that there will be no funding opportunities for the CCF Demonstration program, the CCF Targeted Capacity Building program, or the CCF Communities Empowering Youth program this year. Funding for future grant cycles will be determined, as always, by future congressional appropriations.
The Center for Nonprofit Management offices are at the California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities. Their new address is:
1000 N. Alameda StreetHow can you attract and retain good board members? Give them the right job and the right tools. Governance is the highest level of organizational leadership. The job of governance needs to emphasize values, vision, empowerment of both board and staff, and the strategic ability to lead leaders. Workshop participants (board members and staff leaders) will (1) gain appreciation of leadership through governance, (2) define roles of management and board distinct from one another, (3) identify the unique job outputs of the board, (4) avoid meddling and “rubber-stamping.”
Beginning in 2008, small tax-exempt organizations that previously were not required to file returns may be required to file an annual electronic notice, Form 990-N, Electronic Notice (e-Postcard) for Tax-Exempt Organizations not Required To File Form 990 or 990-EZ. This filing requirement applies to tax periods beginning after December 31, 2006. Organizations that do not file the notice will lose their tax-exempt status.
". . .we all know that simple and easy are not the same thing. Many things are simple in their expression, yet difficult to achieve. Pilot, we want the plane on the runway with the rubber parts down. Surgeon, we want a working kidney. Explorer, we want a new route to China. Researcher, we want a cure for cancer. We want the homeless in housing. We want the hungry well-fed. We want world peace. We want a person on the moon who returns safely to earth. We want a chicken in every pot.
"Those aims are simply expressed, but by no means easy. Simplicity does not enable us to expect effortlessness. And difficulty in no way detracts from importance."
The dollar value of volunteer time for 2006 is estimated at $18.77.
