Help Calnonprofits advocate against a bill in the CA Legislature that wouldrequire disclosure of administrative and overhead expenses: https://can.memberclicks.net/assets/ab2855oppose.pdf
Trust Works
Building trust is critical to any solid relationship—and key to successful nonprofit advocacy and fundraising: https://www.causevox.com/blog/build-trust-with-donors/?utm_campaign=Blog+Notification+Emails+-+2016&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=27723998&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jXmkN0eUo5DR7L2sfKW7rbcHwt1s2Oj990HUD3DzTlxXFjbp05NHY8Z-_vLRejef-2127kuLzz-vGHDo_M6kbYcydKjNflDOEOfwnze906KXh708&_hsmi=27723998
Not a Conflict of Interest
Ohio Ethics Commission says government bodies, such as a city council, can appropriate funds to nonprofits that employ their members, as long as they recuse themselves from voting on those particular appropriations: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/24/city-council-members-cleared-in-investigation-of-nonprofits-contracts.html
What It Takes
How do nonprofit leaders move from charity to real systemic social change? https://www.philanthropreneurshipforum.com/social-change-requires-new-non-profit-leader/?utm_source=Social+Velocity&utm_campaign=7ed0366bae-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bd2775777e-7ed0366bae-51663725
Government Seeks More from Nonprofits
Connecticut looks at taxing big university endowments: Legislation Would Impose State Tax on Yale’s Endowment...
Ten years later, Twitter has become the perfect platform for nonprofits engaged in advocacy, but not so much for fundraising: https://philanthropy.com/article/Opinion-A-Decade-In-Twitter/235801?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=ad3bcacf24ce4f16ba06c8ea1e3ce8ed&elq=81d12bc28f6640ca947aca5a838ee084&elqaid=8379&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2733
Then Call Me!
Nonprofit Leaders—Is this you? No strategic plan? No succession plan? http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/most-nonprofits-operate-without-a-plan-survey-finds?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pnd&utm_campaign=pndnews20160322
Wired
Political connections that help your nonprofit get government contracts are good, but be prepared for blowback: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/21/Columbus-City-Council-nonprofits-contracts.html?platform=hootsuite
Network vs Campaign vs Movement
Advocates—when does a nonprofit network or a campaign become a sustained movement for systemic change? http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=86ea69664802a0541ae4385f8&id=3b879d5820&e=c43990c969
The Broad Museum
The Broad Museum is a big hit with millennials, but in June it will no longer be free—my Nonprofit Quarterly newswire today: http://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/03/22/l-a-s-broad-museum-draws-a-diverse-crowd/
Overtime and Nonprofits
A nonprofit executive director weighs in on the impact of the new federal overtime rules on his local organization: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/03/new_federal_overtime_rule_if_f.html
Timely Issues
The latest from the National Council of Nonprofits–free speech, federal overtime rules & state budget crises: https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=35
