Tides of Nonprofit Reform

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Tides of Nonprofit Reform

• Presented by
• COMO Carol A. Urgola

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Background

• NACO Seibert Focus on Accountability
• Making Nonprofits Work, A Report of
  Nonprofit Management Reform, 2000
• by Paul C. Light, Director of Governmental
  Studies, The Aspen Institute, Brookings
  Institution

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Objectives

• Create understanding of responsibilities
• Explain the need
• Explain Tides
• Significance to the Auxiliary

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Recent Changes in our Culture

• Fear of administration costs
• Fear of fraud
• Concern of stakeholders
• Need for reforms

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Accountability

• Capacity Building
• Performance
• Compliance

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Legal Concerns

• Internal Revenue Service implications
• Form 990s

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Guidestar.com
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Four Tides

• Scientific Management
• War on Waste
• Watchful Eye
• Liberation Management

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Scientific Management

• Promotes best practices
• Sets standards and Codes of Conduct
• Compliance accountability
• Focus on practices, important or not

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War on Waste

• Eliminates duplication and concentrates resources
• Road to reorganization
• Compliance and Performance accountability
• Loses diversity, creates fear

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Watchful Eye

• Provides transparency
• Provides controls to donor members
• Performance and Compliance accountability
• Information open for manipulation and inaccuracies

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Liberation Management

• Focus on results outcomes management
• Empowerment
• Performance accountability
• Loss of discipline, possible focus on wrong
  outcome

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Trust vs. Control

• TRUST
• High
• Scientific
• Liberation
• Low
• War on Waste
• Watchful Eye

• CONTROL
• High
• War on Waste
• Watchful Eye
• Low
• Scientific
• Liberation

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The State of the Tides
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The Rising Tides Long-Term

• War on Waste
• strive for maximum efficiency
• Watchful Eye
• use exposure to our advantage
• Liberation Management
• stress strategic planning for desired outcomes

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High Tide Immediate Needs

• Scientific Management
• establish standards
• Educate all units
• share the same standards of responsibility
• Provide focus on Core Standards Values
• organization-wide

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Be Accountable for

• Compliance to the standards,
• Performance and our outcomes,
• Building our Capacity as a viable non-profit
  organization.

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Thank You for your Attention.