The Severson Center, a division of the Alliance for Children and Families, has opened their trend website to the general public, allowing more immediate access to a library of information in a readily accessible, user-friendly format. No login is needed for the website, but some reports are password protected for access by members of the Alliance. Trends and their impacts are organized under the following categories: Business/Economy, Education, Nonprofits, Technology/Science, Demographics/Population, Health, Social Service Issues, and Work. No question about it: this is the only resource of its kind and an invaluable resource for nonprofit strategic planning efforts. Go to: www.alliancetrends.org.
Publication
of the Week -- The Responsible
Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 6th Edition
by Terry L. Cooper
From the
publisher: Those who serve the public
trust must take special care to ensure they make ethical and responsible
decisions. Yet the realities of bureaucracies, deadlines, budgets, and demands
for quick results make the payoffs for dealing formally with ethics seem
unclear. Since its original publication, The Responsible Administrator
has guided professionals and students alike as they grapple with the challenges
of making ethical, responsible decisions in real world situations. This new
edition includes information on coping with new demands for accountability, as
well as new cases and examples, an examination of current issues relevant to
administrative ethics, and supplementary materials for professors. Cooper’s
theoretical framework and practical applications and techniques will help you
consider all of the factors involved in a decision, ensuring that you balance
professional, personal, and organizational values. Case studies and examples
illustrate what works and what does not. The Responsible Administrator
helps both experienced and novice public administrators and students become effective
decision makers, provides them with a solid understanding of the role of ethics
in public service and the framework to incorporate ethical and values-based
decision making in day-to-day management.Click to preview this book on Amazon.com.
Trend
of the Week – Social Justice
Philanthropy Trends
According
to a new report from the Foundation Center, a small but important subset of
grantmakers — those who work on issues ranging from human rights to
environmental justice — has been disproportionately impacted by the global
financial crisis and their recovery remains in jeopardy. Diminishing Dollars:
The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Field of Social Justice
Philanthropy examines historical trends in foundation assets, spending, and
giving levels; describes strategies used by foundations to cope with depleted
assets immediately following the crisis; and presents projections through 2015
for asset and grantmaking levels. Key findings of the study indicate: - Unless the field sees five years
of above average investment returns, social justice grantmaking in 2015
will remain below 2008 levels.
- Small foundations (less than $50
million in assets) will struggle the most to recover from the economic
downturn.
- Nonprofit organizations seeking
new funders will have a difficult time.
- Some foundations are
unintentionally depleting their endowments at a very slow rate.
Resource of the Week – "Hour
Series" of Nonprofit Guides
The
award-winning “Hour” Series of Guides to
Nonprofit Management has been developed by Marilyn Donnellan, founder
and president of Nonprofit Management Services. Topic areas are general
administration/management, board/volunteer development, community
involvement, marketing, program
evaluation, and resource development. The series includes assessments,
templates and sample policies/procedures. They are especially geared to smaller
nonprofits. For more information, go to http://nonprofitmanagementservices.com/index.php/products
and scroll down.
Tech Tip
of the Week -- COUNTIFS in Excel 2007/2010
We've had the
COUNTIF function in Excel for a while. This function allows you to count
records in a list that match a single criteria. What's completely new with
Excel 20072010 is COUNTIFS which allows you to count records based on multiple
criteria. Sure, there were other ways of doing this before, but none as easy as
the COUNTIFS function. Here's the syntax:
=COUNTIFS(range1,criterion1,range2,criterion2,…,range_n,criterion_n)
Makes it
really simple to count records in a range that match the criteria you enter in
the formula. If you need a little more help, check out this article on the
Microsoft web site: Use the COUNTIFS function in Excel 2007 to analyze data.
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