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Volume One Number Nine2003 The Year in Review (Text of talk at the April 1 Nonprofit Leadership Conference) We live in a frightening world. More frightening now than in the memories I carried with me up to the end of the last century. Of course, when I was a child we were in the midst of a terrible war, and every adult I knew was frightened. But for most of my adult life, I lived in relative comfort and safety. No more. Our world is much darker now, more frightening for each of us. There are new routine inconveniences -- like having to go to the airport much earlier. And there are personal brushes with fear and sadness -- like delaying a family gathering until a cousin could return from a soldier’s memorial service in Zillah. These fears can touch any of us at any moment, any day. Truth to tell, it’s one of the reasons I like working with and around nonprofits. The careful acts of kindness and enduring community building that nonprofits do are a powerful antidote to the despair that could too easily overtake any of us these days. These are the opening paragraphs of the talk Putnam Barber gave at the 2004 Nonprofit Leadership Conference earlier this year. [[[Read the whole text...click here.]]] New Accounting Standards Advice from Clark Nuber about SAS No. 99 Statement of Accounting Standards Number 99 from the AICPA is "a comprehensive, far-reaching standard that will significantly change the way auditors plan and perform their audits, even for private companies and not-for-profit organizations,” the Bellevue accounting firm advised its clients. [[[Read the full text of the firm's memo (.pdf file posted with permission)....click here.]]] Electronic 990s Online Filing Breakthrough O [[[Read the article....click here.]]] News about Nonprofits and Their Work
Johns Hopkins University's Listening Post is an effort to collect and distribute a solid base of useable knowledge about how nonprofit organizations are responding to a range of critical challenges. Participating organizations volunteer to answer four Internet-based surveys each year; the surveys touch on issues affecting their work. Participants also receive early access to the accumulating information and the opportunity to participate in a growing learning community of colleagues. Nonprofits that work in five fields are invited to join: children's and family services; elderly housing and services for the aging; community development; museums; and theaters. To learn more, visit http://www.jhu.edu/listeningpost. The Listening Post is one of the projects of Professor Lester Salamon who visited Seattle last year. [[[Read a summary of his remarks while in town...click here]]] The 'Basics' for Nonprofit Organizations will be covered in three days of workshops offered by Clark Nuber CPAs and Consultants on June 16, 17 and 18 at their offices in Bellevue. Day 1 will deal with federal compliance; day 2 with accounting; and day 3 with taxes. The daily fee is $290; all three days are $750. For more information or to register, call Teresa Tieman at 425-454-4919. The annual
The Capacity Builders Network in Clark County organizes an Executive Directors Meeting on the first Monday of every month at the YWCA, 3609 Main Street, Vancouver; Noon to 1:30 in the Board Room. It’s open to executive directors of any local nonprofit organization. Participants are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. RSVP not necessary News from The Evergreen State Society A special offer from the Stanford Social Innovation Review: Subscribe for the discounted rate of $49 for four issues. Click here, then enter TESS in the promo code field. Some of the content of recent issues of this new journal is available on the website...click here. Northwest Nonprofit is the newsletter prepared by Northwest Nonprofit Resources and distributed widely across Washington state by agreement with other regional centers for nonprofits, including The Evergreen State Society. If you are a member of the Society, look for the next issue in your mailbox in the next couple of weeks. Detailed new tables showing statistics about Washington nonprofits by county are now available, along with other supplemental data, at the Nonprofits in Washington: 2004 page on the Society's website: http://www.tess.org/NPinWA. A printed summary of the report was included in the conference package for participants attending "Agility: Leading Nimble Nonprofits" on April 1. The report is available now as a .pdf file for download; during June, an html version will be posted with live links to many of the data sources and additional details of the scope and character of nonprofits in the state. Online publication of Nonprofits in Washington has been supported by Clark Nuber, CPAs and Consultants. Maria Marsala’s offered Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Drive Traffic to their Websites as a BrownBag for The Evergreen State Society on May 20. She has made her notes for the presentation available online...click here. TESS BrownBags are supported by Qwest. And Phil Talmadge discussed Running for Office in Modern Times at the Civil Society in Everyday Life gathering on May 18. [[[Some notes from the conversation are online...click here.]]] The next Civil Society conversation features citizen participation consultant Lucy Steers on June 15th in the Student Center at Seattle University. Details at http://www.tess.org/pages/next_csel.html. The Civil Society discussions are also supported by Qwest. Observing Nonprofits Observing Nonprofits is an occasional publication of The Evergreen State Society, sent by email to members and supporters. A few days after publication, it is also emailed to a wider audience of people interested in nonprofits in Washington state and simultaneously posted on the Society’s website at http://www.tess.org
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