I’m reposting this entry from January 2008, because this question has come up several times this week.
Too often I hear people referring to ALL nonprofit organizations as a 501(c)3 and they are not. So, I thought it would be beneficial to list the various types of nonprofits.
Here is a list from Internal Revenue [...]
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Types of nonprofit organizations (Repost)
Could you use free advice?
I think when we hear free coming from a business we think there is a catch to it, and while there can be, it isn’t always the case.
On Wednesdays from 10:30am to 11:30am, I have blocks of 15-minute time slots set aside for people to use to ask questions about the start-up process for [...]
Success comes in small steps
The Super Bowl is the pinnacle of the football season.
Fans wait to see who will make it to this prestigious spot, teams work hard one
game at a time to get this spot, and then finally two teams make it, and only one
walks away the winner. Congratulations to the city of New Orleans and the [...]
Have your dessert first
Why does dessert follow dinner? Why do we wait to have
the most anticipated part of dinner for after we’ve stuffed ourselves with the
sensible part of dinner?
About two years ago, Stacy Brice, owner of AssistU, had a
What’s Next retreat where six fabulous women business owners met to work on
taking our businesses to the next [...]
Happy Anniversary NPC
Nonprofit Connectors (affectionately called NPC) is a year old this month! It’s been an amazing journey to see my business go from a thought at Stacy Brice’s What’s Next to the reality it is today.
We experienced a huge setback early this year, when our community
portal crashed, and we were unable to save it. However, we [...]
Directors & Officers Insurance
Directors & Officers Insurance (commonly referred to as D&O insurance), is often overlooked by nonprofits for the simple reason they are uncertain whether or not they really need D&O coverage. Read this article noting compelling reasons to protect your organization. This should reassure you that D&O insurance has significant value to even the smallest [...]
Creating Press Releases
Creating Press Releases
This isn’t necessarily a nonprofit specific topic, yet it is quite relevant. Press releases are an excellent source of marketing, and have the potential to connect you to the people you are trying to reach through your community work.
There are several great web resources that you can use to guide [...]
Five things to know when creating policies and procedures
Setting up a nonprofit is complicated and overwhelming. So, make the creation of your policies and procedures basic. Here are five things that will help you to keep it simple:
Keep it general- At this point in the creation of your policies, your goal is to keep it basic. You are only doing the [...]
Online resources for starting your nonprofit
There are many resources you can tap using the internet when starting a nonprofit. I thought it would be helpful to you to list some the resources I’ve found for clients.
About.com – There are a list of articles pertaining to the start up steps for a nonprofit. There’s a check list that you can follow [...]
Where do you find volunteers?
Volunteers are every where; you just have to speak up and let people know what you need.
A client of mine runs a housing organization for low income families in Virginia. Well, she decided that in addition to helping people with their housing needs that she would also like to assist them with developing job [...]
