This week I’ll be blogging at the 2010 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) annual conference. I am excited about this opportunity to report on the latest research studies and emergent theories in the nonprofit/philanthropic sector. ARNOVA’s adhoc social media committee (John Ronquillo, Lindsey McDougle, Debra Beck, Taylor Peyton Roberts, and [...]

Last weekend I spoke to members of the Education Industry Association (EIA) at their annual conference in Chicago. The majority of EIA members are for-profit companies. Many of these for-profit companies wanted to start nonprofit arms in order to access additional funding only available to nonprofits. This brought up a lot of interesting conflict of [...]

It is important that nonprofits keep an inventory of technology products and a log ofwhat goes wrong with each product as well as what is done to fix the problem. This inventory is helpful for the technology consultants or volunteers who come in a fix your computers and this inventory is important for insurance purposes [...]

Often people are thrown into supervisory roles without realizing how much work and interpersonal skills are really needed to manage people! Most employees want a boss who will be responsive, understand different working styles, and provide feedback on a regular basis (e.g. tell employees how they are doing and how they should improve). Employees also [...]

I am pleased to report that the Nonprofit Human Resources Management Symposium in San Diego was a success!! This was the first event that I planned from beginning to end and it was such a rewarding experience. I am thankful for the amazing human resource management experts who took the time to come and present [...]

Did you know that the majority of nonprofits do not have a volunteer manager, yet most use volunteers on a daily basis? In my previous jobs I learned the hard way how to create volunteer applications, volunteer screening procedures, and volunteer management best practices; but this shouldn’t have been the case. There is an abundance [...]

Many times I’ve blogged about the importance of nonprofit operations. Ever so often accounting, human resources, and technology practices get pushed aside in a nonprofit organization because program work is prioritized as being more important. This is fine and dandy until a crisis occurs, like someone embezzles money from the organization or a disgruntled employee [...]

Tomorrow I’ll be live blogging the 2010 Cause Conference in San Diego hosted by the San Diego Chapter of the American Marketing Association. This year’s conference will focus on nonprofit marketing strategies to beat recession. Also Jessica Van Der Stad will live blog from the AMA conference blog. The twitter hash tag for the conference [...]

This will be the second year that I’ll be co-teaching (as a Doctoral Teaching Assistant) the Nonprofit Finance course at University of San Diego. For those of you interested in understanding nonprofit finance here’s a brief overview: The Unified Chart of Accountswas developed for nonprofits to use in their accounting practices. This chart of accounts [...]

I’ve been really busy with school right now to write a blog post about Haiti, however I just received an e-mail from my colleague Meg Busse who works for Idealist aka Action without Borders. Her e-mail provides info on how to donate to Haiti. Thanks Meg for the info! I’ve been getting lots of emails [...]