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Form 990 Issues
By Kirsten Houghton - SVA Certified Public Accountants
The revised Form 990 continues to confuse and perplex both nonprofit organizations and tax preparers. To address this issue, the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Governmental Entities (the ACT) recently issued a General Report...
Lessons I Have Learned
By Marcia Whittington - Agrace HospiceCare
2015 Outstanding Fundraising Professional Award Winner
When I reflect on the last 20 years of development and fundraising work in our community, a few things stand out to me as lessons I have learned and continue to live by.
Thanks, and Stay in Touch
By Tom Linfield - Madison Community Foundation
One of the nicest grantee thank-you’s received by the Madison Community Foundation was an envelope full of hand-drawn, hand-written letters from a group of middle school kids in a tutoring program we’d funded. They were colorful, delightful, and completely genuine.
Building a Statewide Culture of Philanthropy
By Stacey Wedding, Founder & Chief Strategist Professionals in Philanthropy
Resources—people, money, and knowledge—are essential ingredients of increasing and improving philanthropy. Our organizations, communities and states have all of these resources, yet, still, some states fare better than others in building a culture of philanthropy. Why is that, what can we learn from those states, and how do we begin moving the dial where we live?
