8/9/12 Networking Group Meeting

The next meeting of the Nonprofit/Higher Ed/Healthcare networking group will be held on Thursday August 9, 2012 from 8:30 am to 10:30 am. There will be light refreshments and coffee/tea provided. This meeting will be held at the Accounting Management Solutions, Inc. office located at 800 South Street, Suite 195, Waltham, MA 02453. Contact Leigh […]

Peeling Back the Covers of Your Finance Department

I recently delivered a presentation at the Essex County Institute for Trustees, a full day conference for board members and executive directors of nonprofit organizations. While the subject I covered, nonprofit finance, is by no means a new subject, many organizations still struggle to optimize their operations in order to make the most impact with […]

Proposed Changes for New York Nonprofits

In June of 2011, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the formation of a Leadership Committee for Nonprofit Revitalization. The task force, composed of 29 leaders in the nonprofit sector from across the state, was charged with presenting a series of recommendations to reduce regulatory burden and costs on nonprofits while strengthening nonprofit […]

Crowdsourcing Your Mentoring: The Nonprofit Executives Way

Professional development and on-the-job training is changing. With the speed of transformation in our technologically driven world, we are finding new ways to learn.  Google (search for) the solution to any work problem.  Ask your Twitter followers for their suggestions.  Post a question on Facebook.  Heck, you can learn how to knit from a video […]

2/28/12 Networking Group Meeting

The next meeting of the Nonprofit/Higher Ed/Healthcare networking group will be held on Tuesday February 28, 2012 from 8:30 am to 10:30 am. There will be light refreshments and coffee/tea provided. This meeting will be held at the Accounting Management Solutions, Inc. office located at 800 South Street, Suite 195, Waltham, MA 02453.

Fiduciary Responsibility Training

Teachers get professional development to maintain their professional certification.  Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals also take classes and engage in professional development.  As a CPA, I have to maintain my professional credentials through education.  (Continuing professional education (CPE) is required for CPAs to maintain their professional competence and provide quality professional services.)

1/17/12 – Networking Group Meeting

The next meeting of the Nonprofit/Higher Ed/Healthcare networking group will be held on Tuesday January 17, 2012 from 8:30 am to 10:30 am. There will be light refreshments and coffee/tea provided. This meeting will be held at the Accounting Management Solutions, Inc. office located at 800 South Street, Suite 195, Waltham, MA 02453.

Everyone Gets Rated

Your favorite restaurant has one. Movies have them. If you are active in social media you probably have two or three or twenty.  Nonprofits have them too. A rating.  Or should we say, another rating. A more in-depth rating.

12/2/11 Social Good 2.0

The past few years have seen a surge of activity around technology and the nonprofit world. Boston is a hotbed of innovative ideas that might really be interesting to cause-related organizations – but it seems like new ones emerge daily. Who has time to keep track – let alone hear what they might be able […]

And here’s a drop in the bucket for you, and you, and you…

As part of a ten-step program to encourage job growth, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino recently proposed a credit for nonprofits that hire unemployed Boston residents. Not-for-profits that hire the currently jobless would receive a $1,000 or $1,500 credit deducted from the money nonprofits are asked to pay in lieu of property taxes.