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The Challenges Faced by Healthcare Facilities to Stay Afloat in Today’s Rapidly Changing ...

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:20:08 +0100

Long-term care facilities and hospitals in today’s health care environment are finding it increasingly difficult to survive on their own as a result of rising costs from Medicare fraud and abuse, the necessary need to control costs under the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS), the cost of corporate compliance, and the losses from managed care organizations. The smaller health care facilities are more at risk than the larger more established facilities. Smaller facilities typically have fewer resources in terms of capital, collateral to obtain financing, and professional staff with a technical knowledge in the areas of marketing, law, fund development, and capital replacement. And consequently health care facilities are doing what they need to do to survive such as merging, forming strategic alliances, forming Group Purchase Organizations, buying, selling, affiliating, creating Integrated delivery Systems (IDS) for risk-sharing, and finding other ways to control costs and increase reimbursement.
By Blair E. Thomas

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resources/Challenges%20Faced%20by%20Healthcare%20Facilities.pdf

Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:19:34 +0100

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by Susan Kenny Stevens with a foreword by Paul C. Light
Throughout the country, foundations, nonprofit managers, and board members are realizing the relationship between organizational competence or capacity and a nonprofit’s ability to accomplish its mission and deliver important services. Yet, current definitions of capacity generally describe one-size-fits-all practices and protocols for mature organizations. The fact is that not all nonprofits are mature. Some are start-ups, others are in rapid growth, and still others are undergoing organizational regeneration.

Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity weighs in with a developmental perspective on nonprofit capacity and its relationship to increased organizational performance. Offering practical insights and thought-provoking case illustrations, this book presents seven nonprofit lifecycle stages and the predictable tasks, challenges, and inevitable growing pains that nonprofits encounter and can hope to master on the road to organizational sustainability.

Major Challenges Facing Nonprofits

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:19:18 +0100

Information abstracted from regional and national studies concerning the challenges facing nonprofits indicates that several issues are shared as concerns for nonprofit leaders. Board development and fundraising and are the main issues for nonprofits with a secondary emphasis on difficulties related to improving operations and more effectively managing resources.

EMERGENT THEMES

Some fundamental concerns were commonly identified in the studies, which surveyed nonprofit executive directors and board members. Five major themes clearly emerged from the various reports' inventories of issues. These suggest areas of the most pressing needs as indicated by nonprofit leaders:

1. Board Development - Building an active and strategically oriented board of directors was the most frequent concern. Specific issues identified were:

Alliance for Non-Profit Organizations

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:18:59 +0100

Good membership group for non-profit organizations:

https://www.allianceonline.org/about/index.php

The Benefits of Obtaining 501(c)(3) Tax Exemption

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:18:39 +0100

"Nonprofit organizations that dedicate their resources to charitable, religious, scientific, or educational purposes may apply for 501(c)(3) federal tax exemption as a public charity. Successful 501(c)(3) public charity applicants enjoy many benefits not available to unclassified organizations. This fact sheet explains some of those benefits and briefly describes the 501(c)(3) application process.
501(c)(3) organizations:
. Do not pay federal corporate income tax except on income derived from unrelated business income. With this exemption, an organization can save 15% - 35% of its taxable income.
. In most instances, do not pay state corporate income, franchise, excise, use, and sales tax. The breadth of state tax exemptions varies state by state. Interested organizations.........."

By Alliance for Justice

Continue reading at:

http://www.afj.org/assets/resources/nap/501cs-benefits.pdf

The Problem With Nonprofits

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:16:29 +0100

The deck often seems to be stacked against nonprofit organizations. No one doubts their work is important—whether it's running a homeless shelter, an after-school program, or a worldwide campaign against hunger—but nonprofit jobs, with their long hours and low salaries, have always required a certain amount of sacrifice. A sobering study released yesterday, the largest survey ever of nonprofit employees, reveals surprisingly widespread dissatisfaction with the way many nonprofits are organized..........

By Justin Ewers

Continue reading at:

http://politics.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/03/04/the-problem-with-nonprofits.html

Resources on Legal Issues for Non-profit Groups

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:25:59 +0100

...........illegal blunders are no longer met with sympathetic ears.

"Increasingly, the contributing public expects nonprofits to be managed and held accountable to the same standards of care and performance as the for-profit businesses in which they invest," says Cliff Ernst, a lawyer in Austin, Tex., who works with nonprofit clients. "It is the duty of the executive director and the board chairman of each nonprofit to be sure that all of its board members, staff, and volunteers are educated about ethical, business, and legal issues that can affect the organization."...............

By Rebecca Gardyn

Continue reading at:

http://philanthropy.com/article/Resources-on-Legal-Issues-for/52576/