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Public Policy Alert: Seeking Your Input
For all nonprofits who work with state government-or want to in the future-here is an opportunity to provide some important input.
The Baker Administration is doing a comprehensive review of the regulations that govern each state agency. Officials are interested in ideas for modernizing regulations, making it easier to work with state government, or improving the delivery of state services. Changes to state regulations will be finalized in the first few months of 2016.
We encourage you to provide input within the next few months! You can provide feedback and ideas through MNN by emailing
[email protected].
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ake the "ask"; and r
espond to a donor who says, "let me think about it."
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Collaborating for Success: Advice from Stanford and the Packard Foundation
The David Lucile Packard Foundation, in association with the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), recently published an article on the
Five Guidelines for Successful Funder Collaborations. The article points out that while collaboration is necessary to resolve complex social and economic issues, excessive collaboration efforts can waste your organization's time and resources, fatigue your staff, and discredit your funders and the collaborative cause itself. So how should you manage your relationships without over-collaborating? The SSIR distills their advice into five succinct guidelines:
1. Pick the right collaborative structure to align with your foundation's goals.
2. Weigh the cost-benefit carefully when the collaboration is not central to your strategy.
3. Even when you and your partners are aligned on goals, you may still want to preserve decision-making flexibility.
4. Get clear about time requirements and the roles various collaborating partners will play.
5. Set the exit strategy up front to reduce friction later.
When is a Donation Big Enough to Change Everything?
Recently, an attempted donation at Paul Smith's College in the New York Adirondacks incited critical responses from media sources across the nation. Earlier this summer, Joan Weill, wife of Wall-Street billionaire Sanford Weill and noted donor and trustee at Paul Smith's college, pledged $20 million to the school with one string attached - the school must be renamed Joan Weill-Paul Smith's College. As reported by the Chronicle of Philanthropy and CNBC, while Cathy S. Dove, President of Paul Smith's college,
approved the name change and E. Phillip Saunders, chairman of the board of trustees, respected the merits of the proposal, Justice John T. Ellis of the State Supreme Court in Franklin County ruled the college could not violate its founder's will, which mandated the college be named "Paul Smith's College" in perpetuity. In response, Mrs. Weill rescinded her donation and the institution accepted the court ruling (Paul Smith's College News).
Representatives from the college claimed in court that the institution faced a recent financing crisis, suffering from budgetary restrictions and insufficient funds (the college has an endowment of $27 million and operated at a $2 million loss in 2013). Consequently, the college argued, the school has a dire need for increased funding.
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NONPROFIT 411: Advancing Your Team and Organization with Financial Information
Why should you add sharing your organization's financial information with your team to your already long to-do list? What is the value to you and your organization?
Research has shown that feeling valued and relevant at work is a major motivator for employees. Everyone wants to have a purpose and contribute to an organization's mission and success. Sharing financial information with staff can help engage and motivate your team, creating involved stakeholders and organizational ambassadors. And it has been proven that engagement leads to greater employee loyalty and a more successful organization.
Sharing financial information with your staff can also help build your management team and enable succession planning. As you progress from sharing financial information to involving your team in creating financial information, such as program budgets, you allow team members to stretch their skills and broaden their view to the overall workings of the organization. It can also engage your team in problem solving so that they become part of the solution. For all of these reasons, we generally recommend that our clients bring program management into the budget/P&L process.
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The Education Cooperative (TEC) is seeking mentors for their summer 2016 program. TEC internship programs provide career opportunities for high school junior and senior students and help them hone their career interests before applying for college. Students are placed in internships where they gain experience, learn skills, and receive guidance from a mentor.
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