It's been a busy month where I've had the chance to participate in grant maker roundtables in two communities--the PSGA event and the Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference in Medford.

A year ago we were all filled with a lot of uncertainty. The stock market was reaching its lows, having dropped from an all time high in October 2007 where it exceeded 14,000.

The Spring 2010 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Reveiw hit my desk as I was leaving for a week away from the office.

The current issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy offers an article “Daunting Challenges Face the Nonprofit World.” The crux of the article is that its survey of the top 400 fund raising organ

The biggest merger news in nonprofits around Puget Sound is….on television.

At lunch the other day a friend asked how I thought the present downturn would affect the nonprofit sector.

When nonprofits face budget problems they all too often turn to the development staff as one of the first places to cut costs.

This is a difficult post to write, yet the topic is so critical for the nonprofit sector and the issues we face today.

We generally don't see the words "bankruptcy" and "charity" in the same sentence; yet it may become all too common in the next few months or years.