One more point from BDO’s Hilda Polanco – COMPLIANCE is important in this environment. Now is not the time to cease dotting your “i”s. Please let us (your peers) know what your experiences with all of this stuff is. We need eachother’s counsel more than ever!

Mike, our webinar on the 15th on budgeting will help with a framework to integrate the two processes.

for small local organizations that provide a needed service to the local populace, these kinds of essentially temporarily donated facilities have been very helpful. We tend to see them supporting such stuff as senior centers, arts organizations, health clinics and animal shelters; The problems emerge, as another commenter mentioned, when…

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This is a great question. I think fiscal sponsors, at their best, are a real gift to startup nonprofits in that they can allow you to concentrate on the tasks related to mission and base building – that exploration of ling term viability. But as others here have commented, the quality of the sponsor is key. Sponsors come in all shapes and sizes.…

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As this article Analyzing Fundraising in an Uncertain Economy — in 5 Charts (philanthropy.com)yesterday in the Chronicle of Philanthropy reinforces, the landscape of individual donations is changing relatively rapidly. Their article focused on observations from fundraisers but what issues do these and other shifts bring up for financial leaders i…

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