Q. I have three small children, and realize that in about 15 years, my first child will be in college. With tuition costs rising, I’d like to plan now for their education. I’d also like contribute toward the education of my friends’ and relatives’ children. My idea is to start a nonprofit…
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Q. I just got a job as the manager of planned giving at a hospice, but have no experience specific to that field. Where can I find information to help me understand planned giving? A. Your first step: Find a mentor, suggests W. Douglas McGaughey, senior director of gift-planning services at the…
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Nonprofits that have audits are deemed by the community to have more rigorous accounting controls.
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Resources are always the main issue with creating a new position in any nonprofit organization.
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A New Paid-Leave System Makes a Charity’s Workers Less Harried
Five years ago, Delia Monroe’s life got a lot more complicated. As associate director of resource development, corporate and foundation affairs, at the American Foundation for the Blind, in New York, she already carried a full workload. But when her husband, Douglas, fell ill with a brain tumor,…
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Organizations with large bankrolls are going to question investing their payroll budget into a person with limited nonprofit experience.
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Q. I live in Manhattan and am looking to move into the nonprofit arena after many years in the corporate world. Most of the positions I seek require some fund-raising or grant-proposal writing skills. Where can I find courses given in these areas? A. You can find anything in Manhattan, and training…
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There is no better way to demonstrate your abilities than to have delivered a well-executed event or campaign.
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Q. I am just beginning a master’s program in nonprofit administration. I currently work for a nonprofit organization as an information technology auditor. I have more than 15 years’ experience as a technologist, but my staff-management experience is nearly that old. How much of a problem will that…
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IN THE TRENCHES By Alison Stein Wellner For more than 15 years, the Transplant Foundation, in Miami, has provided information and comfort to people who are on the verge of experiencing one of modern medicine’s most sophisticated and dangerous operations: organ transplantation. Because of its close…
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