June 10, 2020
What Happens to Nonprofits When Defunding Police is Professor Kathleen Robinson take on a fiery issue affecting all of civil society. Here’s what she has to share: It is not surprising that some of the public wants to dismantle the policing system. When major safety, health and well-lbeing issues are ignored by society’s institutions, the very institutions set up to protect people and ensure justice are considered no longer viable.
May 31, 2020
Charity PPP Loan Flexibility Act – Seven Things Nonprofits Need to Know is INSIDE CHARITY’s review of the new Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act which “attempts” to ease restrictions on charities as they seek loan forgiveness under the Paycheck Protection Program authorized by the CARES Act. While there is optimism in Washington that this new bill will reach President Trump’s desk for signature, there is no guarantee of when or if this may happen. And, until […]
May 28, 2020
Nonprofit PPP Flexibility Act celebrates the U.S. House of Representatives bipartisan legislation passed today to give nonprofits more flexibility with the loans they received to keep their charities afloat. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Flexibility Act of 2020 passed with a 417-1 vote and now heads to the Senate (WHERE IT IS EXPECTED TO PASS!) “Millions of nonprofit organizations in this country are one step closer to meaningful relief,” Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., and Chip Roy, […]
May 22, 2020
Nonprofit PPP Forgiveness May Be Harder To Receive Than Original Loan is Inside Charity’s update on what nonprofits will face in the next days and weeks regarding the CARES Act. Banks are preparing for a flood of applications from nonprofits for loan forgiveness marshaling staff to help charities navigate a complicated process that recalls the confusing early days of the relief effort. Nonprofits that received PPP funding in early April can start to submit forgiveness […]
May 17, 2020
PPP Loan Forgiveness Application, Template & Video for Nonprofits provides charitable execs clarification and the tools they need to turn a portion (or all) of their PPP Loan into a grant. Produced over the weekend by the team at QuickBooks University and reviewed by INSIDE CHARITY these utilities make sense of what is arguably the next important
May 16, 2020
Nonprofit PPP Loan Forgiveness Application Is Now Online! VISIT HERE TO DOWNLOAD PPP LOAN FORGIVENESS APPLICATION Your nonprofit is expected to complete the application and submit it to your lender, who will ultimately be responsible for assessing forgiveness. The application requires that charities submit the forgiveness calculation
May 7, 2020
Nonprofit PPP Loan Forgiveness UPDATE reveals new facts regarding the forthcoming PPP Loan forgiveness process. Unfortunately, the probability of actually receiving a PPP Loan has come to an end. The SBA announced today that as a result of an unprecedented crush of applications (and the rapid depletion of CARES Act funding allocated by
May 3, 2020
Nonprofit PPP Loan forgiveness – How Does it Work? is based on Inside Charity’s direct communications with the Small Business Administration and multiple financial lenders. Here’s what we’ve learned so far. Beyond the ease of qualifying and low interest rates, perhaps the most attractive feature of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans is that
April 28, 2020
Second Round of Nonprofit PPP Loans Falls Flat – WASHINGTON D.C. – The PPP lending program was scheduled to resume at 10:30 am EST on Monday, but the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) online portal seems to be having issues handling the demand. An industry source confirmed that the platform did open at 10:30 a.m. as planned, but was
April 26, 2020
Resumption of Nonprofit PPP Loans – April 27, 2020 – WASHINGTON – Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration Jovita Carranza and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin issued the following statement on the resumption of the Payroll Protection Program (PPP): “The Small Business Administration will resume
October 26, 2019
Lending Tree performed a recent survey further confirming that the U.S. has been the most generous country in the world for nearly 250 years and over 60% of Americans say they’ve donated to charity; 34% did so more than once. (See Jimmy LaRose’s 2018 Charitable Giving Soars Thanks to Tax Reform to learn more.) Lending Tree surveyed over 1,000 Americans to get a better understanding of how often Americans donate, who they’re donating to, and […]
October 18, 2019
As an early adopter of Little Green Light and now a long-time Little Green Light Staffer, I love having the opportunity to share how our donor management system can truly impact fundraising outcomes for hard-working, small nonprofit organizations. But what I love even more is the fact that our users are just as passionate about using Little Green Light as I am and often go out of their way to share their experiences with others. […]
October 7, 2019
Positive Solutions’ core philosophy reminds me of American entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian activist Dan Pallotta and his famous TED Talk that rippled through the charitable sector and had every nonprofit veteran executive nodding their heads in a resounding, “YES,” including me. It was aptly titled, “The Way We Think About Charity is Dead Wrong.” In his famous talk, Dan argued that there exists a double standard between the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Especially in the […]
October 3, 2019
Maxie Carpenter and Development Systems International have a new take on nonprofit leadership. Maxie asks the question, NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP: EFFECTIVE OR EFFICIENT?” Effectiveness has always been a driver of Leadership and nonprofit success, particularly since Peter Drucker formulated the rules and required habits of thought in 1967’s The Effective Executive. This book had an enormous impact on all kinds of leaders in all kinds of sectors, not just the for-profit marketplace because Drucker identified that doing the […]
September 7, 2019
Intuitively, we all know what a major gift is: It’s simply the top stratum of charitable gifts received by your nonprofit organization. The relative impact of any gift depends on an organization’s mission, operating budget, community, and fundraising base, but what does the overall fundraising landscape look like when it comes to size of donations? To answer this question, the Major Gifts Fundraising Benchmark Study contacted more than 600 organizations in 2017 and learned that: […]
July 27, 2019
As a non-profit organization (NPO), you live and breathe donations. Without these recurring contributions, you can’t continue making a difference in the world. But during the time you successfully spread the word and marketed your organization, there was one thing that fell through the cracks. Your donation page. And no matter how fantastic your NPO’s concept is or how well your brand ambassadors know their stuff or even how well your message wows people when […]
June 19, 2019
Pay Board Members? Last week, with great fanfare and applause, NANOE honored their Board Members with financial compensation for their service to the charitable sector. NANOE’s president, Louis Fawcett, issued checks in the amount of $1,000 for their board meeting held during NANOE’s Convention & Expo in Charleston, SC. During his presentation Fawcett posed the question, “You may not pay your board members but if you did…WHICH ONES WOULD YOU KEEP?” The crowd responded with […]
May 23, 2019
Wegner CPAs’ Scott Haumersen, NANOE Treasurer and Board Member, is a CHAMPION FOR CHANGE throughout the charitable sector. Haumersen serves the our sector by both overseeing NANOE’s finances and expanding Wegner CPAs’ services to nonprofit’s across the United States. He’s fond of saying, “NANOE has the answer’s charities need!” Here’s a word from Scott: Wegner CPAs is about people – our clients, our employees, our community. Our professionals guide individuals, businesses and nonprofits with personal […]
April 27, 2019
A different kind of marketing firm, Cause Inspired Media is a Google Ad Grants Certified Professional that works exclusively with nonprofit organizations to manage their digital advertising. The Google Ad Grants Program has been at the heart of Cause Inspired Media’s mission since their inception. As experts, they excel in harnessing the power of Google Ads to increase capacity building for nonprofit organizations, which frees their staff to remain focused on mission-based work. Honed by […]
April 26, 2019
NANOE has it right. As I mentioned in last month’s column, I attended and spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Nonprofit Organizations and Executives (NANOE) in Charleston on March 26th and 27th. Why does NANOE has it right? NANOE is not your “grandparent’s nonprofit association” in that it is bold and brave enough to bring truly independent and unconventional thought to the nonprofit public square — and is not shy about […]