Nonprofit finance, accounting, and tax news. Other tidbits of interest to the charity community.
No surprise there.
The Wall Street Journal reports here the volume of churches going through distressed sale of their property has increased rapidly over the last couple of years. In addition to a good background article, which I think you should read, there is a great pair of charts that gives good info.
Both ECFA and Guidestar recently released survey results of giving trends in 2010. Wanted to put the results side by side. (more…)
More news on giving trends. The news recently is almost good news, sort of. At least the news isn’t really bad. ECFA just released their Nonprofit Economic Impact Survey. (more…)
Guidestar reports good news in survey of over 2,500 charities: 2010 Fundraising Survey Results: The Worst May Be Over. (more…)
The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) released their first Annual State of Giving Report. Total giving to their member organizations changed imperceptible from 2007 to 2009. From pre-recession year, giving declined a very mild 0.1 percent over two years. (more…)
Stanford Social Innovation Review has a superb article on the cycle many NPOs have of starving themselves of critical infrastructure they need to be effective in their mission.
Superb summary: “The first step in the cycle is funders’ unrealistic expectations about how much it costs to run a nonprofit. At the second step, nonprofits feel pressure to conform to funders’ unrealistic expectations. At the third step, nonprofits respond to this pressure in two ways: They spend too little on overhead, and they underreport their expenditures on tax forms and in fundraising materials. (more…)
Barna Research Group surveyed 1,114 Protestant churches in the 4th quarter of 2009 to find out what impact the recession had on them in 2009. (more…)
GuideStar surveyed almost 7,000 NPOs to find out what happened in giving for the first five months of 2010. (more…)