It's been a strange few months -- and I'm not talking about the weather. Taxpayer-funded bailouts, double-digit unemployment, and soaring deficits have put the country in a sour, uncertain mood. Americans' usual sunny optimism has taken a back seat to real concerns about the health of the economy, our 401(k)s, and the future. No surprise, then, that peopl...

(Tony Martignetti is managing director of Martignetti Planned Giving Advisors, LLC, a planned giving consultancy; the author of Charity Registration: State-by-State Guidelines For Compliance; and a frequent seminar leader at the Foundation Center. You can connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter.) There's a new Massachusetts regulation that affects nonprofits that access or store person...

Professionals for Nonprofits has just released their 2009 data on nonprofit salaries for three metropolitan areas: New York, New Jersey, and Washington, DC.  While many of the jobs in the surveys command a competitive salary on average, it’s obvious that not all locales pay their nonprofit staff at New York levels. In fact, it’s pretty much an accepted truth that most nonprofit profe...

Hard to concentrate today with spring knocking on the door. Here are a few things that caught our attention. Raymond C. Offenheiser: Haiti: The Healing Has Begun (Oxfam International) Joel Orosz: Déjà Vu (or 1969) All Over Again? (Center for Effective Philanthropy) Holden Karnofsky: Nothing Wrong With Selfish Giving -- Just Don't Call It Philanthropy (GiveWell) Peter Deitz: How ...

(Kyoko Uchida manages PubHub, the Foundation Center's online catalog of foundation-sponsored publications. In her last post, she wrote about our free PubHub widgets.) PubHub features four reports on its home page each week on a broad monthly topic, along with a link to a complete list of reports on that topic. In March, we're highlighting reports on women, and this week ...

SXSW is just around the corner. For five days nonprofit campaigners, techies, and social media enthusiasts will gather for one of the largest and most anticipated conferences of the year. But with over 3K+ attendees and hundreds of panels, core conversations, workshops and parties, it can be overwhelming to get the most out of SXSW. No worries though. Frogloop has put together a short list of the ...