By Andrea Wilson What is a safe and cost-effective way to transport vaccines to children in developing countries? Many life-saving vaccines and antiretrovirals need to be stored in specific temperatures and conditions difficult to accommodate during long periods in transit. One international nongovernmental organization (NGO) discovered drones equipped with climate-controlled...
By Adam B. Cole, CPA Alleviating homelessness. Providing healthcare. Advancing educational and economic opportunities. While nonprofit organizations may have a social purpose, they are, by definition, businesses that need to focus on profitability to further their mission. Like their for-profit brethren, they must have sound governance and financial practices, including a...
By Alex VanVeldhuisen, IGP “Our Information Governance program looks like an abandoned fairground in my mind … each old ’ride’ representing a technology, software or server with data and information we no longer use, need, can find or know what to do with.” Quote from a Manager at a Public...
By Marc Berger, CPA, JD, LLM On July 16, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2018-38, modifying the information reported to the IRS by certain tax-exempt organizations on their annual Form 990 or Form 990-EZ information return. Affected organizations will no longer be...
By Joe Sremack, CFE, and Gurjeet Singh, MCP The art of nonprofit fundraising is quickly becoming a science. Fundraising is a vital process for the mission of many nonprofit organizations (NPOs), and the better organizations are at this process, the more effective they become in their...
By Donna Bernardi Paul, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Are differences in work and communication style in the workplace among the different generations the cause of leadership/supervisory challenges or is it something else? There have been a plethora of articles, seminars, webinars and discussions around millennials in the workplace and the...
By Marc R. Berger, CPA, JD, LLM The IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE/GE) division released its Fiscal Year 2019 Program Letter on Oct. 3, 2018. The Program Letter outlines its projects and priorities for fiscal year 2019 for tax-exempt organizations, employee plans, Indian tribal governments, and...
By Katherine Gauntt Sales tax is imposed upon retail sales of tangible personal property and taxable services in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Each state determines the circumstances under which a sales tax is imposed on the purchaser. Purchases by nonprofit organizations are exempt in most...
By Laurie De Armond, CPA, and Adam Cole, CPA Nonprofit organizations are uniquely shaped by their mission, history, size, program goals and community. But leaders of these organizations—whether a CFO at a global health services charity, a CIO of an education endowment or the executive director at...
By Michael Conover I have previously discussed the inevitable transition of numerous baby boomers holding leadership posts in nonprofit organizations. The topic has been well-covered in a variety of publications for nearly a decade. However, I believe the seismic shift that some have predicted has failed to...
