Observing Nonprofits

Observing Nonprofits is an email newsletter distributed to members of Executive Alliance. Issues contain commentary by Putnam Barber, President of The Evergreen State Society, and others; responses to professional queries about nonprofit leadership; reports of significant developments and announcements of events in the nonprofit field; and news of the Executive Alliance and its work. Until October 2004, Observing Nonprofits was a publication of The Evergreen State Society which combined with Executive Alliance in that month.

Each issue is also sent on a delayed schedule to NonprofitNetworking, the free email discussion list maintained by the Executive Alliance for people interested in nonprofits in the Puget Sound Region. For more information and to subscribe to NonprofitNetworking...[[click here]]].

The first issue of Observing Nonprofits was published in September 2003.

Current issue:  November 2004 (Distributions of Booster Club Funds)

Past issues:

• October 2004 (Responses to Senate Finance Committee White Paper)

• September 2004 (Combining with Executive Alliance)

• July 2004 (Senate Finance Hearings; Electronic Communications)

• June 2004 (Nonprofits in 2003; SAS 99)

• May 2004 (The Veil of Familiarity and Washington Nonprofits)

• March 2004 (Query: Can Bylaws Override the RCW?)

• February 2004 (Update: Washington Nonprofits by the Numbers)

• January 2004 (Commentary: How I Decide Which Organizations to Support at Years-end)

• December 2003 (Query: Using the Internet for Board Business)

• November 2003 (Commentary: Lester Salamon in Seattle)

• October 2003 (Commentary: Unreliable nonprofit statistics; Query: Sarbanes-Oxley)

• September 2003 (Do-not-fax Rules; Misbehavior at another agency)