




Heather is an experienced Nonprofit Manager, Researcher, Trainer, and Blogger. She teaches and presents on a variety of topics in the nonprofit sector and she participates on a variety of national nonprofit committees including the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition and Independent Sector's NGen Advisory Committee.
I have also written three nonprofit toolkits you can purchase on my website:
Starting a Nonprofit
Nonprofit Operations Toolkit
Setting up a Nonprofit Office
In this blog I write about nonprofit leadership, nonprofit careers, the nonprofit workforce, nonprofit technology, and nonprofit management education.
I was sad to learn that Jane Adaams’ Hull House Association — one of the first settlement houses in the United States went out of business last week. I don’t know the details of their closure but was sad to learn there wasn’t a national fundraising appeal. It is sad that the Hull House serves [...]
I recently noticed a trend in many nonprofit organizations. The Executive Director/CEO travels around the country and speaks at nonprofit conferences. This is good in theory because it promotes the organization but…what is going on back at the office while the CEO is away? There should be a COO (Chief Operating Officer) or Operations Director [...]
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 [...]
The economy is on everyone’s mind. Nonprofits are worried. IRS created 5 year teaching plan. It includes outreach and guidance to NPs, ongoing transparency and identifying and stopping misuse or abuse of charity funds. Watch out — the IRS will start to pay particular attention to Universities and Hospitals. The Commissioner’s one piece of really [...]
Fall is here — and so is the annual planning process for nonprofits whose fiscal year ends in December. Attached is my latest free resource — an annual planning calendar for operations — thanks to the students in my nonprofit finance course whose suggestions made this annual calendar more complete.
