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A Guide for Private Foundations: Tax Exemption and 990-PF Filing Requirements
What you need to know to meet your foundation’s tax requirements and the 990-PF.
Focus on the Destination, Not the Route (Budget)!
Jeanne Bell argues it’s time to stop looking at budgets and pay attention instead to projections and financial goals.
Taking On the Big Stuff
A fast look at just four critical areas facing American society today: Poverty, race, environment, and democracy.
Nonprofit Conflict of Interest: A 3-Dimensional View
Conventional approaches to classic conflicts of interest. Model policies that address these concerns. Non-financial conflicts of interest common to many nonprofits. Steps an organization can take to handle conflicts of interest and more detailed sample policies.
Firing the Executive Director
Sometimes a board needs to fire an executive director. Sometimes it’s clear, more often it’s a little fuzzier. So when and how do you do it?
What’s the Right Size for the Board?
The single most common question asked of experts on nonprofit boards: What’s the right number of people to have on the board?
Mental Health Counselor May Have a Mental Health Problem – What Can We Do?
When an employee’s mental health behavior is negatively impacting your workplace, what can you do?
Downward-Facing Budget and Other Nonprofit Yoga Poses
Nonprofits employees work a lot and often neglect their health. Humorist Vu Le describes yoga poses designed specifically for nonprofits.
Outdated Job Description May be Getting Us in Trouble
Framing job descriptions properly as related to disabilities will help you recruit a suitable applicant pool, be fair to people with disabilities, and protect your organization from charges of disability discrimination.
Ask Rita in HR: How Do I Stay ADA Compliant When an Employee Has a Disability?
How does an employer document ADA compliance? Let’s go through each element of the ADA analysis and identify helpful documentation.
Rewrite the Script When These Characters Show Up in Workplace Politics
How can a group of talented people, grouped together for a positive purpose, create an environment of discord, frustration or inefficiency?
Sample Disclosure of Amount Deductible in Ticket Purchase
Use this sample disclosure form for the amount of a ticket contribution that is deductible for your nonprofit’s federal income tax purposes.
Time to Fold: Keys to Gracefully Winding Down a Nonprofit
How would you know if it was time to shut down your nonprofit? These lessons learned from closing the Cancer Prevention Institute of California might help.
The Effect of the 2018 Tax Overall on Nonprofit Donations and the Rise of DAFs
Your annual appeal has been impacted by the 2018 tax code and donor-advised funds. Learn how and rebuild revenues and funding.
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IRS Tax Form 990 [Deadline Extended]: How to File It, When to File It, and Why It’s So Important
For nonprofits, filing tax form 990 is key to retaining tax-exempt status. Here are the key features of tax form 990 and how to file it.
Five Examples of Gen Z Innovators Tackling Social Isolation
How might you pivot your work to help end social isolation and loneliness? Listen to the wisdom of elders and youth.
New York Nonprofit Employees Get Additional Paid Sick and Safe Leave Rights, Part 1
Explore new state laws, in addition to COVID-19 leave, provided under New York State’s Emergency COVID-19 Quarantine Paid Sick Leave.
Ask Rita: We Can Require Employees to Receive the Covid-19 Vaccine—But Should We?
It is important to take into account legal and practical considerations so as to balance community safety with the impact on individuals.
Ask Rita: An Employee Isn’t Holding Up Their End of the ADA Interactive Process—What Do I Do?
The ADA interactive process is a two-way street. What should employers do when employees aren’t interacting in good faith?
The Importance of Self-Care as Self-Defense to Nonprofits
Nonprofit organizations are givers. Reframing self-care as self-defense can help us to prioritize our people and protect our organizations.