http://www.smjones.com/blog Sun, 20 May 2012 06:50:15 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2012/03/fraud-and-embezzlement-advice Cindy Cumfer, Attorney at Law, is the coauthor of The Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook.  For those of you who don't know Cindy, her practice is dedicated entirely to helping nonprofit organizations.  She recently launched a website where she provides useful information for any nonprofit.  One of her recent topics covers the rise of fraud and embezzlement in the nonprofit sector.  Please check out her article here for a few quick but extremely important steps you can follow to help p... Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:32:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2012/03/fraud-and-embezzlement-advice http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2012/03/calculating-the-roi-of-your-fundraising-activities On March 22nd, the Nonprofit Fiscal Managers Association is offering a workshop on Calculating the ROI of Your Fundraising Activities.  This is an excellent opportunity to learn how to measure the effectiveness of your fundraising, how to create a development dashboard, and how to predict your organization's income trends.  For more information about this workshop, or to register to attend please follow this link.  We hope to see you there! Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:37:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2012/03/calculating-the-roi-of-your-fundraising-activities http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2012/03/dashboard-reporting Next Wednesday, March 7th, the Nonprofit Association of Oregon's Executive Directors Network is holding a workshop on Dashboard Reporting: Track & Measure Organizational Effectiveness.  This year Susan Matlack Jones & Associates is proud to be a lead sponsor of the Executive Directors Network!  This workshop will be helpful and informative for any nonprofit organization, and we hope you can join us there.  To learn more about the workshop or to register to attend, please click here. Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:41:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2012/03/dashboard-reporting http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/10/25th-anniversary Last month we celebrated our 25th anniversary with a bang!  Over 100 people showed up and the party was a huge success.  Thank you to all of our clients, friends, family, and colleagues for making it a grand celebration.  Here's to 25 more! Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:35:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/10/25th-anniversary http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/10/op-ed-by-rob-bennett-from-portland-sustainability-institute Last week Rob Bennett, the executive director of Portland Sustainability Institute, published a great op-ed in the Huffington Post about green neighborhood development.  He brings up an intriguing correlation between the current global economy and the greening of cities that is, as Rob says, "emerging because of the financial crisis, not in spite of it".  Check out his article "From Green Building to Green Cities".  If you're interested in learning more about Portland Sustainability Institute... Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:47:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/10/op-ed-by-rob-bennett-from-portland-sustainability-institute http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/10/northwest-dance-project-is-in-the-finals-for-the-sadlers-wells-global-dance-contest We want to send a huge congratulations to NW Dance Project - the only US company to make the finals for the Sadler's Wells "Global Dance Project"!  You can vote to help send them to perform in London and check out their video by clicking this link.  Also to learn more about the NW Dance Project or to buy tickets to an upcoming performance meander over to www.nwpdp.com. Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:06:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/10/northwest-dance-project-is-in-the-finals-for-the-sadlers-wells-global-dance-contest http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/09/nonprofit-association-of-oregon-workshops This year we are super proud to be a lead sponsor of the Executive Directors Network (EDN) at the Nonprofit Association of Oregon.  Last year we were a supporting sponsor of the Nonprofit Fiscal Managers Association (NFMA).  Workshops for both the EDN and NFMA are starting up again in September/October, and the line up is intriguing.  If you are interested in becoming a season passholder or looking at the schedule of workshops please follow the link below. Nonprofit Association of Oregon - E... Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:46:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/09/nonprofit-association-of-oregon-workshops http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/09/audit-evaluation-article-from-blue-avocado A few days ago Blue Avocado (a nonprofit digital magazine that provides resources and articles for the nonprofit community) published an article titled "Get the Most Value from Your Audit".  As many of you know, audits are an investment and they can be expensive.  The reason why I am highlighting this article is because  it echoes one of our values at SMJ & Associates.  Exceptional bookkeeping, audits, and fiscal controls are not just musts, they are also valuable tools that can help... Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:07:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/09/audit-evaluation-article-from-blue-avocado http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/07/nao-highlight If you missed Kay Sohl's presentations this year at Nonprofit Association of Oregon on funding admin and overhead costs, check out part 5 of her Indirect Cost Series on the NAO website.  Also, if you are interested in consulting services around indirect allocation methods, creating internal fully-loaded allocation spreadsheets, or other nonprofit specific accounting structures, please contact us. Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:42:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/07/nao-highlight http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/06/measuring-outcomes Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In the last blog post I wrote about the issues that arise when funders or donors evaluate a nonprofit solely based on the indirect costs to program costs ratio.  Last Friday, Rick Wartzman (the executive director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Gradu... Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:19:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/06/measuring-outcomes http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/05/the-means-of-measure Is the overhead to program ratio a more important measure of an organization's effectiveness than its accomplishments and outcomes?  A study referenced in The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle (an excellent article produced by the Stanford Innovation Review) found that individual donors consider this ratio a more important factor in determining whether to give to a charity than the success of the organization's programs.  But if you attended Kay Sohl's workshop on "Funding Indirect and Overhead Costs" at... Fri, 27 May 2011 20:37:00 GMT http://www.smjones.com/blog/1/2011/05/the-means-of-measure