Trail Blazer, Non-Profit and Political Talk!

Visting another Blog ran across an interesting project, people creating yard signs.   http://myyardourmessage.com/ has a whole bunch of yard sign's, some are pretty partisan, below is my favorite.

Just got my copy of this fall 2008’s “Nonprofit News” and came across an article from Jon Pratt (Executive Director for Minnesota Council of Nonprofits’) on 990 changes.

In it he points out that the new Part VI – Governance, Management and Disclosure – has 22 new yes/no questions about organizational policies and board procedures.  The suggestion he has is to take a dry run at the document now, if you have not already done so.

This is very good advise and I am hoping that everyone reading this will take that advice and make sure they can answer the questions, just don’t leave it to the accountants to do.

Traditional wisdom is that nonprofits have a delayed recession effect.  But we are hearing that nonprofits are being hit very hard right now.  Our thoughts are with everyone struggling.  

We are building new tools and partnerships to improve our performance and the results that you see in your fundraising and your activism.

With that in mind we joined the “Minnesota Council of Nonprofits” about a year ago and I came across a link that might help some of you on their web site.  http://www.mncn.org/moneysavingtips.htm

Hope it helps.