Finance

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Materials from The Family Foundation Learning Exchange
Gary McGee, CPA
January 11, 2005
Materials include information on self-dealing, taxable expenditures, excise tax, tipping, senate finance committees, and the 990 form.

Hands On: Measuring Financial Health in the 1990s
Foundation News & Commentary
by Susan Kenny Stevens
March/April 1996
An article addressing the issue that “grantmakers and grantseekers will have to change the ways they look at financial data in order to assess the health of a nonprofit organization” by using three familiar financial tools: the balance sheet, income statement, and budget.

Think FASB
Foundation News & Commentary
by Carol Crenshaw
September/October 1994
Letting you know exactly what FASB’s SFAS Nos. 116 and 117 mean to your foundation.

RACC General Support Financial Analysis Sample
FY06-07 Grant Cycle

Five Financial Principles, A Glossary of Terms Used in Nonprofit Accounting, and FASB Briefing

The Stevens Group, Inc.

Finances and Operations
Exerpt of Chapter Seven from a publication from the Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers
2002

 

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THIRD “FRIDAY” PROGRAM

The Arts in This Economy

Friday, July 17, 2009
11:45 am – 1:30 pm
Portland Opera, The Hampton Opera Center
211 SE Caruthers Street
(just south of OMSI – please note there is construction in the area)
Portland, OR 97214

Portland

$15 members, $35 non-members
Lunch provided.
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MEMBER BRIEFING

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national program “Ladder to Leadership”

presented by: Northwest Health Foundation

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
10:00-11:30 am
221 NW Second Avenue, Suite 300
Portland

Please RSVP to Chris DeMars as to your availability at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by Wednesday, July 15.

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CORPORATE FUNDERS LEARNING EXCHANGE

Topic: TBA

Sponsored by: Pacific Power Foundation
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
7:30 am - 9:00 am
Key Bank Offices, Pac West Building
1211 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 300
Portland

$10.00 Members, $35.00 Non-Members
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FAMILY FOUNDATION LEARNING EXCHANGE

Topic: TBA

Thursday, August 13th, 2009
11:45 am - 1:30 pm
Portland

$5.00 Members, $15.00 Non-Members
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SUMMER SOCIAL

Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Portland