How Organizations Can Mitigate Financial Risks During the Health Crisis
By Bradley Bartells, CPA, MUN CPAs The current health pandemic is going to create additional risks to the financial stability and well-being of not-for-profit organizations. With organizations sending employees home to work remotely, or potentially employees out with an illness for an extended period, the leadership of NFP organizations need to take additional steps and […]
Big Changes on the W-4 Form
Published Wednesday, January 1, 2020 by Gail Cecchettini Whaley, J.D. On December 4, 2019, the IRS released its final version of the 2020 Form W-4. Although the IRS released new withholding tables in 2018, the W-4 remained unchanged until now. Significant changes to the W-4 were made to bring it in line with the Tax Cuts […]
Volunteer Engagement Is a Two-Way Street
By F. Duke Haddad– NonprofitPRO The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that a quarter of Americans volunteered through an organization in 2015. Without volunteers, there are staff limitations. It is also true that people are positively impacted when they volunteer, so volunteerism is a win-win situation for nonprofits and volunteers. According to the National Council of […]
Nonprofit Email Open Rates Rise Nearly 5% In 2019: Report
Chris Strub CMO Network Nonprofits’ email open rates rose nearly 5% in 2019, a stark contrast to a slight decrease in worldwide email open rates, according to a new study. With an average open rate of 25.20%, nonprofits trailed only government organizations (30. (sballergy.com) 50%) in a benchmark report released by email marketing software provider CampaignMonitor. […]
Nonprofit of the Year: Friends of the Elk Grove Animal Shelter
Elk Grove Citizen The city of Elk Grove’s long-awaited animal shelter opened last October, thanks to several years of advocacy by local animal lovers like June LaVine and her husband, Arnie. During the shelter’s 2018 groundbreaking ceremony, she recalled when the city ended its contract to have Elk Grove’s stray dogs and cats taken to […]
Federal Judge Holds Freelancers To New California Labor Law
CBS Sacramento SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge will not temporarily exempt freelance journalists and photographers from a broad new California labor law, saying they waited too long to challenge restrictions that they fear could put some of them out of business. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez in Los Angeles denied the temporary restraining […]
California Goes All Out to Boost College Completion Rates
Marian Conway. Nonprofit Quarterly December 10, 2019 December 3, 2019; NBC News (produced by CalMatters and the Hechinger Report) On average, only 58 percent of college students get their degree—and that even allows for extra time, in a six-year window. The graduation rate is below 40 percent for two-year community colleges and four-year for-profit schools. Why don’t students finish college? The […]
Thieves loot $15,000 in laptops from Sacramento non-profit
Sacramento Self-Help Housing focuses on trying to help get homeless people off the street. Author: Mike Duffy, ABC 10 Published: 6:20 PM PST December 30, 2019 Updated: 6:20 PM PST December 30, 2019 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Thieves struck the local non-profit Sacramento Self-Help Housing over the weekend, making off with an estimated $15,000 worth of laptops and equipment. […]
TechSoup’s Nonprofit Tech Trends for 2020
We predict that it’s going to be a big year in nonprofit technology in 2020. In just fundraising alone there are a ton of new innovations that you’ll have to know about. GoFundMe Charity will be a game changer, smart speakers will become an important fundraising medium, and the controversial new ImpactMatters rating system will […]
IRS Mileage Rate Drops for 2020
The IRS has issued the 2020 optional standard mileage rate, with a slight half-cent drop for the new year. The optional standard mileage rate is used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. Beginning January 1, 2020, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car […]
