Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990h


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A Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990H Patsy Matheny, LLC Put the pieces of your organization's community benefit story together. It's the marketing department's responsibility to deliver a consistent, ongoing message that demonstrates an organization's commitment to improving the community's health status. A Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990H shows healthcare marketers how to gather data effectively from every corner of their organizations and how to use this information to promote their good deeds through tailored messages to multiple audiences on an ongoing basis. This book and CD-ROM package will explain: What qualifies as a community benefit activity. How to align community benefit activity with market strategy, mission, and values. How to tell your organization's community benefit story in a clear, compelling way. How to benchmark your community benefit activities. Complete with tools, sample essays, and other resources, A Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990H will help healthcare organizations stay competitive and avoid risking negative public and media attention. Who will benefit from this book? Anyone responsible for collecting, organizing, reporting, and championing community benefit activity, including: marketing, advertising, public relations, and community relations directors, VPs, and professionals; chief marketing officers, CEOs, CFOs, and marketing consultants.




A Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefit


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The goal of this updated publication, A Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefit,is to help not-for-profit, mission-driven health care organizations develop, improve and accurately report on their community benefit programs. More specifically, it will help organizations:* Identify community health needs and plan to address those needs.* Make prudent choices for using scarce resources and evaluate the impact of those resources.* Understand the characteristics of programs and activities that are and are not reportable as community benefit.* Budget proactively for community benefit programs and activities.* Use standardized accounting and reporting approaches.* Build and strengthen relationships in the community for community health improvement.* Demonstrate accountability and transparency to their communities.




Health Progress


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Favorable Determination Letter


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Tax-Exempt Organizations


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Millions of donors annually give hundreds of billions of dollars to charities. While this giving helps meet charitable purposes, congressional & media concerns have arisen about whether some charities spend too much on fundraising & general management & not enough on program services to meet the charitable purposes related to the tax-exempt status. Such concerns have heightened since the outflow of charitable giving after 9/11. This report focuses on the adequacy of: (1) publicly reported Form 990 data on charity spending in facilitating public oversight of charities, (2) IRS's oversight of charities, & (3) IRS's data sharing with state agencies that oversee charities. Includes reviews of studies on charities from 1994-1999. Charts & tables.







Nonprofit Kit For Dummies®


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Tips and techniques to help your nonprofit thrive in any economy Due to the recent downturn in the economy, a significant number of nonprofit organizations have experienced a major decrease in funding and contributions. Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, 3rd Edition caters to these organizations and shows you how your nonprofit can thrive and survive even in the current economic climate. With 25% new and revised material, Nonprofit Kit For Dummies, 3rd Edition offers new tips and information on everything you need to navigate the process of setting up and effectively running a nonprofit organization. Covers raising money, applying for grants, and developing the perfect mission statement Details on how state laws vary; conducting program evaluations; and conforming to accounting standards CD includes forms, worksheets, templates, and more Whether you're thinking about starting your own nonprofit or are already working in the sector, Nonprofit Kit For Dummies, 3rd Edition is a valuable source for getting the latest information and practical advice on running a prosperous nonprofit organization.




Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges


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This book is a co-publication with CASE.Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to building a million-dollar-a-year development office.Community colleges educate nearly half the undergraduates in America yet receive as little as two percent of all gifts to higher education. Private philanthropy is now essential to the mission of community colleges. In order to gain a fair share, community colleges can rely on this book to deploy strategies effectively used by 4-year colleges. The author, Steve Klingaman, has raised over $40 million dollars for two-year and four-year colleges over a 25-year development career.With its emphasis on planning the work and working the plan, Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges offers practical advice and concrete steps on how to build a strong advancement team with robust Annual Fund, grants, major gifts, planned giving programs.Topics include:* Strategies used at one two-year college that raised $50 million over ten years* 75 boxed tips on the details that matter most* How to create an institutional commitment to advancement* How to enhance the advancement function* How to build an effective foundation board that gives* How to grow the Annual Fund with sustainable, repeatable gifts* Secrets top universities use to close major gifts* Continuous quality improvement techniques to improve results year after year.Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges is the only comprehensive development guide to focus on community college fund raising. Written for development professionals, college presidents, board members, trustees, faculty leaders, and other college leadership, this book is an essential, practical guide that fills a critical gap in the market.




Always Dream


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Kristi shares the many obstacles and concerns she and her family have faced in their lives--from her family's difficulties as Japanese-Americans during World War II to her own struggle dwith an earyl childhood foot deformity.