News to Use: More Resources on Economic Response

Each week, we outline the previous week's articles addressing these economic times for nonprofits in the United States. We select the content that is useful to Alaska nonprofits. Below are a few of the links from the previous week.

The Ghost of Christmas Future: State Budget Deficits in 2010
Rick Cohen, The Nonprofit Quarterly

State budgets were a mess in FY2009, a debacle in FY2010, and look like impending catastrophes in FY2011.

Five Internal Controls for the Very Small Nonprofit

Segregation of duties, checks & balances . . . difficult to implement in the organization that has perhaps three or fewer staff, or only a few active board members in an all-volunteer organization.

Funders focus on rebuilding assets
Philanthropy Journal

In the wake of a year that saw foundation assets tumble 24 percent, a majority of endowments and funders will focus on rebuilding their assets in the coming months, a new study says.

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