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Nonprofits Assistance Fund

Founded:

1980

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Website:	http://www.nonprofitsassistancefund.org
Company Overview:	Nonprofits Assistance Fund helps nonprofits realize their vision. We provide loans that stabilize and transform organizations, offer strategic financial guidance, and work to encourage healthy financial practices. This is a space for the nonprofit community to share thoughts and ideas on healthy financial practices, financial management resources, and other relevant topics. Join the conversation and comment on what you think of current trends, challenges, and anything else impacting the sector. Send us a message, visit us online, or call 612.270.7180 to learn more about how we can help your organization build a brighter financial future. (read less) Nonprofits Assistance Fund helps nonprofits realize their vision. We provide loans that stabilize and transform organizations, offer strategic financial guidance, and work to encourage healthy financial practices. This is a space for the nonprofit community to share thoughts and ideas on healthy financial practices, financial management resources, and other relevant topics. Join the conversation and comment on what you think of current trends, challenges, and anything else impacting the... (read more)
Mission:	Our mission to foster community development and vitality by building financially healthy nonprofit organizations.
Products:	Balancing the Mission Checkbook: Interested in trends in the nonprofit sector? Read Kate Barr's blog for her unique insights and experiences from the world of nonprofit management and finance. Financial Management Resources: Our website has a range of tools and resources that you can use right away to implement healthier financial practices at your organization. Loans & Lines of Credit: $5,000-450,000 are available to any 501c3 nonprofit in Minnesota. Visit our website for more info. Financial Management Trainings: We offer a series of workshops and networking events to help nonprofit staff and boards develop and hone their financial management skills. These trainings are designed for Minnesota's nonprofit community, with your budget and busy schedule in mind. Financial Needs Assessment: A Financial Needs Assessment can clarify your nonprofit’s financial situation. Contact us for this free assessment and strategic guidance to help you move forward.

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Accountability Lesson Number 2: Action Must Be Taken

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Asking questions is one of a board member’s primary jobs. What comes next, though, after the questions are answered?

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PhilanTopic: A to Z Survival Guide for Uncertain Times

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Those of us running nonprofit organizations ... want to know what our colleagues are doing to address the financial challenges we each face.

The "A to Z Nonprofit Survival Guide for Uncertain Times" is compiled from my past writings and strategy recommendations I learned from grantees, clients, and...

My personal favorite: Mind the sweet spot
Don't just chase dollars. Identify your organization's "sweet spot" -- the intersection of its vision, mission, assets, and other strengths with the giving "impulses" of your supporters and stakeholders -- and make sure everything you do connects to it.

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Change.gov | Of the People, By the People

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"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today." - President-Elect Barack Obama

This is a challenging time; however, it is also an opportunity. As nonprofits, we are uniquely positioned to help find and implement solutions. Share your thoughts on how to reinvigorate the economy, provide quality health care for all, improve our education system, and other critical issues. We all have a responsibility to help move our country forward.

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October 28

Nonprofits Assistance Fund added the Surveys, Petitions, Votes, Polls & Quizzes application.

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October 24

Nonprofits Assistance Fund wrote on its own wall.

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Nonprofits Assistance Fund wrote a note.

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Curious about the changes to the 990?

The IRS has an update about the new 990, http://snurl.com/3bwsi, which lays out some of the key changes. They plan to post the complete revised directions on their website on August 15th. As a reminder, the new form goes into effect next year (when you file for the 2008 fiscal year).

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Scavenger Hunt - 8 new photos

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July 23

Nonprofits Assistance Fund added the Simply RSS application.

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Nonprofit Collaboration

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New Financial Management Tools & Resources

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Message + Medium + Mission: MCN's Technology & Communications Conference

2 posts by 1 person. Updated on March 31, 2008 at 12:56pm

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Nonprofits Assistance Fund wrote at 8:15am on October 24th, 2008

Thanks everyone who attended yesterday's session! We appreciate that you took the time out of your morning to hear how we're using social media.

It's great to see that many of you became fans of Nonprofits Assistance Fund - hopefully your energy will help the page go to the next level. Let us know if you have any ideas about how we can use this space more effectively.

Best,
Ashley

PS. A special thanks to Crystal for putting her kind words right on our wall!

Crystal wrote at 10:21am on October 23rd, 2008

Thanks to Kate and Ashley for facilitating a terrific MCN Nonprofit Communicators program on Making Web 2.0 Work For You. I was very pleased that this was a "201" look at the tools, rather than the usual "101" program that simply covers the basic definitions.

It was interesting to see the in-depth look at how your organization made the choices of what 2.0 tools to use, and then how you applied that to your entire staff and communications. (Because after all, everyone on an organization's staff is a communicator, whether they realize it or not.) Even if they aren't necessarily the tools that another organization would choose because of their own capacity or audience, it is helpful to see how deliberate and thorough you are in combining all of these tools into a communications strategy.

I took a ton of notes and am looking forward to applying them in my own work!

Elaine wrote at 11:57am on July 22nd, 2008

Set up a webpage for FREE. Visit www.YourCause.com -- the Facebook for Fundraising! Raise money for your nonprofit cause for just $9.95/mo.

Elaine

Kate wrote at 5:24pm on July 16th, 2008

Nice new photos - must be a FUN place to work!

Jason wrote at 1:27pm on June 21st, 2008

Hello all,

I just opened a theater in Osseo (about 20 N of the cities off of 169). We have a venue that seats about 107 people. We are excited to be apart of this vibrant community. I'm learning a ton about non-profits and look forward to learning more from this group.

Check out our website at:

www.yellowtreetheatre.com

We've also got a group on facebook Yellow Tree Theatre

Jason

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