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Nonprofit Reality Shows: Season II
Nonprofit Reality Shows: Season II
Fall 2007
Welcome
Welcome to Fall 2007

Welcome to the Fall 2007 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly. It is full of interesting organizational stories and case studies brimming with drama, suspense, twists and turns—you know, the daily stuff of nonprofit life. We’ve all heard them, the stories of nonprofit organizations that folded unexpectedly, merged with an unlikely partner, faced board turmoil, or achieved unprecedented success.

Ethics & Conflict
The Nonprofit Ethicist: Fall 2007

A supervisor asks you to “adjust” fundraising reports. What to do?

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Organizational Culture & Development
Once Upon a Time

Every organization has a story we can learn from. What are the change drivers in the organizational sagas that follow? 

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Case Study
United Housing: That's United, not Unitary!

Executive Director Tim Bolding confronts a nearly catastrophic loss of funding, and finds the way forward where he hadn’t expected it.

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Case Study
The Girl Scouts: Uncharted Territory

One of the nation’s leading federated organizations is in the midst of a massive transformation effort that they hope will enable it to serve girls more effectively while making it competitive in its market.

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Case Study
Tenderloin Health: Growing Pains

An AIDS organization’s transition from an informal familial atmosphere is a brutal affair.  

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Case Study
Coastal Family Health: Built to Last

A dedicated core of people never considered giving up at Coastal Family Health Center. Individuals —board members, doctors and other health professionals relocated in troubling numbers but Coastal Family Health had not finished its work and so it remains.

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Case Study
The Ultimate Question
The story of one organization's decision to close.  What were the deciding factors - in fact, what was the problem when no immediate crisis appeared to be looming?
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Case Study
ONE DC: A New Chapter in Community Development in the Nation's Capital

A new nonprofit takes an “innovative” path, but this course has been charted before. 

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Fundraising: Trends
Individual Donor Trends
What level of relationship and interaction do today’s individual donors want?...
 
Fundraising: Processes & Considerations
Fundraising Software and Services Directory 2007

This directory lists fundraising software and services specifically created for, or commonly used by, nonprofits. Descriptions are provided by vendors.

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Financial Management: Processes
Navigating the New Audit Standards

Be prepared! This article will walk you through the potential traps you may face in your next audit under the new standards and counsels you on how to avoid them.

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Nonprofit Economy
The Charitable Tax Exemption Is about More Than Efficiency

Part of what nonprofits should add to society is diversity.  Should this be a requirement of the charitable tax exemption?

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Media & Communications
What's in Podcasting for Nonprofits?

Should your organization be podcasting?  Weigh your options in our no-nonsense guide.

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Satire
Executive Director Surprise!

In the painful vein of help gone horribly wrong, the roots of this story can be said to lie in good intentions -- good intentions, plus the tendency of foundations to pathologize (and sometimes euthanize) their grantees.

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