Standards for Excellence
52 Tips in 52 Weeks: 52 Tips in 52 Weeks: Can Your Donors Easily Learn about your Organization?
Last night I sat on my couch with my laptop considering my year-end charitable giving. Where to give this year? Should I stick with those I gave to last year or give to organizations I haven’t supported in the past? Can I make all of my gifts online? Or will I have...
Action Alert- Tell members of Congress that action is needed on COVID-19 Relief before the end of the year! Maryland Nonprofits Statement to Members of Maryland’s Congressional Delegation
Dear Members of Congress, On behalf of our 1100 member organizations and nonprofits across Maryland, we must ask for continued support from Congress to sustain our ability to meet the needs of people and communities suffering from both the health toll and the economic...
52 Tips in 52 Weeks: Sarbanes Oxley and Nonprofits – We Remember You Senator Sarbanes
While I get most of my news directly from the pages of my daily newspaper, I was so saddened to wake up Monday morning to a tweet on my phone from a local television news show sharing the sad news that Senator Paul Sarbanes had passed away. I didn’t know Senator...
Maryland Latinos Unidos Nombra a La Dr. Gabriela Lemus Como Su Primera Directora Ejecutiva
Maryland Latinos Unidos, una nueva organización estatal que tiene el objetivo de abordar temas de especial interés para las comunidades latinas e inmigrantes de Maryland, contrató a la Dra. Gabriela Lemus como su primera directora ejecutiva.
Maryland Latinos Unidos Names Dr. Gabriela Lemus As First Executive Director
Maryland Latinos Unidos (MLU), a new statewide organization with the goal of addressing issues of special concern to Maryland’s Latino and immigrant communities, has hired its first executive director, Dr. Gabriela Lemus.
52 Tips in 52 Weeks: How are you Engaging Volunteers in These Times?
I was intrigued by an article in the New York Times last week entitled, “Demand on Nonprofit Groups Rose in the Pandemic, Even as Volunteering Fell.” The article cited a recent study by Fidelity Charitable which found that two-thirds of all volunteers had either...
This #GivingTuesday, take ACTION for Racial Equity in Maryland – Gift these Organizations with your Support.
If you are looking for ways to increase the diversity of your giving this season, Maryland Nonprofits is on board with you! Maryland’s African American and Latino communities have been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic crisis, and are coping with the...
52 Tips in 52 Weeks: “This is the way it’s always been done!” – is this mentality stopping you from achieving excellence?
As frequent readers of this blog know, the Standards for Excellence: and Ethics Code for the Nonprofit Sector document is a consensus model for how the most well-managed and responsibly-governed nonprofits operate. This means that when nonprofit leaders review the...
52 Tips in 52 Weeks: Ensure That You Do Not Fall Victim to Paying Invoices that should NOT be Paid…
There are few things that upset me more than people who steal from nonprofits or scam them out of valuable resources. Every time I read a story about a nonprofit that has fallen victim to a scam or impropriety, I am incensed. Two times in the last week, when I looked...
Are you taking advantage of the CARES Act to maximize year-end giving?
Happy Thanksgiving from Maryland Nonprofits to our member community! A Maryland Nonprofits member, Vince Connelly of Connelly & Assoc. Fundraising, LLC, authored this draft on making the most out of nonprofit giving using the CARES Act that is believed to have a...