Legal Compliance and Ethics
Constituent Voice: Results from Maryland
Lehn M. Benjamin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy & School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Do the people you serve have a voice in your organization? In a survey of Maryland Nonprofits members...
Survey Examines Public Charities Investment Reserves – See What 486 Organizations Had to Say
Guest Blog by Dennis Gogarty, CFP, AIF Founder, Study on Nonprofit Investing (SONI) President, Raffa Wealth Management, LLC Now in its fourth year, the annual Study on Nonprofit Investing (SONI) polls public charities and nonprofits on various...
Health Insurance Rates – What’s Up?
Guest Blog by Rob Cannon, Executive Vice President, Gorges & Company, Inc. You have probably heard the news that health care premiums are increasing significantly in Maryland. Generally, premiums for group insurance in Maryland that apply to most nonprofit...
Community Advocacy Wins Major Additional Commitments from Port Covington Development
By Henry Bogdan, Public Policy Director, Maryland Nonprofits Last week representatives from the South Baltimore Six (SB6), the six communities most impacted by the Port Covington redevelopment plan, announced an agreement with project...
The New Overtime Regulations – Is Your Nonprofit Ready?
By Melissa Sines, Education & Accreditation Director, Maryland Nonprofits & Standards for Excellence Institute By now, you’ve heard about the new overtime regulations going into place December 1 and you’ve probably had a chance to think about how this...
Revenues Miss the Mark, Adding to Future Budget Concerns
By Henry Bogdan, Public Policy Director, Maryland Nonprofits State general fund revenues in Fiscal Year 2016 fell $250 million below March estimates, according to the end of year ‘close-out’ by the Bureau of Revenue Estimates. The difference is primarily in...
NANOE: New Guidelines for Tomorrow’s Nonprofit – A Review
Nonprofit leaders who haven’t found the time to make their way through the 111-page nonprofit manifesto released by the National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives (NANOE) will be forgiven. No worries, I am here for you. I present to you a...
Talent Mapping to Increase Staff Satisfaction and Reduce Turnover
Heather Carpenter, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, M.A. in Nonprofit Management, Notre Dame of Maryland University, and Nonprofit Consultant, Momentum for Impact When was the last time you revised your job descriptions? For many organizations,...
Are Your Fundraising Expectations Unrealistic?
Guest Blog by Elise Saltzberg, CFRE, Saltzberg Consulting Nonprofits need money to fulfill their missions, and for most this requires fundraising. Everyone in our sector knows raising money is challenging. In an effort to help nonprofits be as successful as...
Survey: What Should Be in Maryland’s Budget?
The 2017 legislature will see more discussion of cutting state taxes (less revenue for needed services) or calls to ‘streamline government’ to deal with deficit concerns (again, less revenue for needed services). These proposals will assume that...