http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Thu, 22 May 2008 19:30:26 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.17/content/springwidget/non_profit.xml http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17659759 You don't have to be an "expert" to know that your donors don't all think the way you do. In fact, as the Customer Experience Matters blog notes at Your Customers Are Martians, "The gender gap is nothing compared with the company-customer gap." Donors want to Donor Power Blog Thu, 22 May 2008 15:44:32 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17659759 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17642515 I'd love to to go for a long walk but there's only so many times you can walk around the deck before you start feeling dizzy or someone gives you a job! Sometimes hundreds of flying fish rise up out of the water all at once and glide over the surface ahead of GREENPEACE WEBLOG Thu, 22 May 2008 04:15:29 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17642515 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17638591 Just wanted to let you know that I’m a guest advisor over at Ideablob this week. You can post your ideas there anytime and receive advice from folks with a lot of business savvy. Ideablob.com is an online community where small business owners and social entrepreneurs (including nonprofits!) Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog Thu, 22 May 2008 01:27:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17638591 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17535474 Get the Feed Subscribing here will get you "Nonprofit Communications" and the "Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants." Ask your questions and get Kivi's answers live, right here on the blog, on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 from 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT). Nonprofit Communications Mon, 19 May 2008 16:37:54 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17535474 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17606638 San Francisco -- Senator John McCain, in announcing his global warming plan in Portland, Oregon last week, once again defended his support for more subsidies for nuclear power, saying that the pending Warner-Lieberman bill doesn't subsidize nuclear "far enough, in my estimation." He made Sierra Club: Carl Pope Wed, 21 May 2008 16:41:36 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17606638 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17604732 The report is generally favorable, but we are nevertheless left with the impression... The Desktop Guide is Quickly Becoming the Must Have Guide for Nonprofit Executives Jack Siegel's new book, A Desktop Guide for Nonprofit Directors, Officers, and Advisors: The Charity Governance Blog Wed, 21 May 2008 15:33:23 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17604732 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17607917 that Republican FEC nominee Hans von Spakovsky had begrudgingly withdrawn his name from consideration to one of four open commission seats, it was difficult to deny the collective sigh of relief not only from the halls of Congress, but from campaign war rooms The Nonprofit and Foundation Advocacy Blog Wed, 21 May 2008 16:33:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17607917 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17439927 I conducted a general qualitative research study attempting to describe the phenomenon of blogging in the nonprofit sector from the perspectives of three bloggers: Sean Stannard-Stockton, a principal and director of Tactical Philanthropy at Ensemble Capital Nonprofit Leadership 601 Thu, 15 May 2008 20:53:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17439927 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17602232 The spiffiest new fundraising podcast on the block: Fundraising Is Beautiful -- inspiration and ammunition for fundraisers. If you believe fundraising can change the world, I think you'll enjoy the podcast. Today's program is called "The Myth of Donor Burnout." It's created by me and Steven Screen Donor Power Blog Wed, 21 May 2008 13:58:45 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17602232 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17605402 Get the Feed Subscribing here will get you "Nonprofit Communications" and the "Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants." Here are a few of the more recent items: The Chronicle of Philanthropy did an online chat Q&A with Seth Godin yesterday. His article on five Nonprofit Communications Wed, 21 May 2008 15:27:50 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17605402 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17604887 At last some good news for Pacific tuna. Eight Pacific Island nations have signed an agreement to stop foreign fishing fleets taking their tuna. It’s a great boost to the global tuna campaign – another Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise is in the Med also GREENPEACE WEBLOG Wed, 21 May 2008 14:51:17 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17604887 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17529039 If so, you might be in danger. Until now, most nonprofit board members have never heard of the "Zone of Insolvency," do not know if their organization is in the Zone, and therefore do not understand their related legal responsibilities and liabilities About.com: Non-profit Charitable Orgs Mon, 19 May 2008 09:20:40 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17529039 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17583585 Donors across all generations tend to give roughly the same amount to philanthropic causes, when controlling for other factors such as income, education and frequency of attendance at religious services, according to ”Generational Differences in Charitable Giving and in Motivations for Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog Tue, 20 May 2008 22:40:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17583585 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17542856 But the media only occasionally touch on why we are having this particular food crisis: market fundamentalism and the privatization of world food security. Unfortunately, the hard truth is that GMOs have actually made the world's food supply smaller -- Sierra Club: Carl Pope Mon, 19 May 2008 20:10:59 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17542856 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17439929 Although the field of nonprofit studies is interdisciplinary in nature, researchers in the nonprofit sector have not utilized the interdisciplinary views of leadership provided by the leadership studies field. This paper will attempt to bridge the gap between Nonprofit Leadership 601 Thu, 15 May 2008 20:40:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17439929 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17525254 In short, Becker was asking for disaster relief for an agency that is in the middle... The Desktop Guide is Quickly Becoming the Must Have Guide for Nonprofit Executives Jack Siegel's new book, A Desktop Guide for Nonprofit Directors, Officers, and Advisors: The Charity Governance Blog Mon, 19 May 2008 11:14:52 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17525254 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17605504 Senate leaders hoping for FEC confirmation hearings prior to May recess [ BNA ] (login req'd) As some fear a renewed fight over nominees [ CQ Politics ] Ohio Right to Life files electioneering communications lawsuit against Ohio Elections Commission [ Political Activity Law ] The Nonprofit and Foundation Advocacy Blog Wed, 21 May 2008 16:18:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17605504 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17566981 This is just an artist expressing her opinion, not a nonprofit trying to motivate anyone to action, so it's technically not a stupid nonprofit ad. But it's exactly the type of thing some nonprofits love to do: complex visual meta-metaphors that, should you Donor Power Blog Tue, 20 May 2008 15:01:16 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17566981 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17582481 Today the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor anounced that there will a full inquiry into Japan's whale meat scandal. In the meantime, Japan's government needs to suspend any further whaling permits to the Institute of Cetacean Research and and the whaling ship GREENPEACE WEBLOG Tue, 20 May 2008 11:11:49 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17582481 http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17439928 Although current literature evaluates student attitudes and learning outcomes in service-learning, very few research studies measure or evaluates the impact service-learning has in the nonprofit community or how service-learning could be used as a Nonprofit Leadership 601 Thu, 15 May 2008 20:45:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/non_profit/item/17439928