nonprofit management

The viability of America’s community-based human services provider network is being challenged by external and internal financial threats, according to a report released today by the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the American Public Human Services Association.

Nearly one-fifth of the privately employed workforce in New York is paid by nonprofit organizations, many of which are carrying out vital human services for the state and city governments. But the quality of that sector is stifled by low wages, according to two executives for The Children’s Village, a large provider of child welfare and juvenile justice services in New York City.

March has been National Social Worker Month in this country. I often wonder how unbearable life would be without the skill, commitment, tenacity and hard work of social workers, a position embedded in so many essential activities of our society.

by Paul Carttar, co-founder, Bridgespan Group Remarkably, the scaling of high-performing nonprofit organizations seems to have taken on a certain glamor. In our sector, we are typically eager to talk about such exciting topics as the design of promising interventions, the development of sophisticated organizational capacities, and, perhaps most alluring of all, the raising of growth capital from “investors” to fuel a program or organization’s expansion or replication.

La Crosse County, Wisc. wants to hear from services providers and advocates about potential new ideas for its expanding youth and family services system. La Crosse will soon is merging its Comprehensive Community Services Program, a case management model, into a regional system that includes two other nearby counties.

It should always be noted when an organization threaded into the fabric of American history comes to an end. So it was in October, when it was announced that the United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA), the courier of Jane Addams’ settlement house movement, would cease to exist for the first time since 1911.

The Alliance for Children and Families has increased its membership by 30 percent and may augment its financial lending to members, two moves made possible by a restructuring of the organization and other nonprofits affiliated with it.

After more than two years of waiting, The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) will hear by the end of September about a federal pension plan ruling that could determine its prospects for survival.

by Ryann Blackshere and John Kellly The deadline for large employers in the youth and family services field to comply with the mandates of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is nearing.