From the Archives

As you can’t help but be notice these days – the election year is in full swing.  For some organizations, this means getting requests to

The IRS recently revoked the §501(c)(4) status of a state-wide affiliate of Emerge America, an  organization based in California whose purpose is to identify and

Board member compensation solely for board service is rare in the nonprofit sector.  According to a BoardSource survey, only 3% of nonprofits compensate their board

Some of you may have noticed that there have been many news items of late regarding local Tea Party organizations and their complaints regarding the

Assuming your organization wants to lobby, the organization should next consider its tax-exempt status and how the IRS treats lobbying for organizations of that type.  For

With all this talk about the policies inquired about on the Form 990 – I figured I should remind everyone why I have the 990

Some of you might have been bombarded yesterday (as I was) with articles discussing a new study on the financial literacy of the nonprofit sector. 

As a part of my new rant on policies nonprofits should have – next in line is a whistleblower policy. Why should you have a

I have touched multiple times in my blog posts about conflicts of interest within nonprofit organizations.  However, I am going to keep going for one

Still concerned about volunteering on a nonprofit board?  As a continuation on my series of posts on board member duties and liabilities, I would like