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A court-sanctioned investigation has found state Sen. Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis, and his wife Theresa received at least $3,486 in improper reimbursements from a now-defunct nonprofit organization. A report filed in Ramsey County District Court Thursday alleges Community Action of Minneapolis paid for plane tickets, hotel stays, travel expenses and spa services for the Haydens. With…

If you donated cash to survivors of the Nepal earthquakes this year, you may want to consider exactly how—or if—your money has been used. Sixteen of the world's largest disaster-relief charities have revealed to the Thomson Reuters Foundation that they are spending up to a sixth of funds designated for Nepal on their overheads rather…

Criminals are using poorly protected charity websites to test the validity of stolen credit-card numbers, costing some groups thousands of dollars, cybersecurity experts said this week. Simplified online donation pages make it easy for people to give—but also serve as prime testing ground for credit-card thieves. "There’s a giant target painted on the industry’s back…

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has used a corporate-supported nonprofit subsidiary of the state economic-development agency to pay for official trips abroad, writes the Indianapolis Star. The Indiana Economic Development Foundation has raised nearly $2.2 million since January 2014 from companies, trade groups and governmental entities, with most of the money coming from utility firms. Pence…

Finally, someone said it! We need to realize that getting “attribution” right is going to take all of us, and we need to stop being afraid of it...

Merkle Response Management Group (Merkle RMG), a subsidiary of Merkle, the technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, has been selected by Save the Children to handle donation processing and fulfillment services in support of its direct mail program.

To get a handle on what’s in store for 2015, NonProfit PRO rounded up some of the nonprofit industry’s finest, who were kind enough to share their nonprofit trends for 2015. Here are four trends on payment processing.

For many organizations, it's easy to take that initial credit card transactions contract for granted and basically forget about it. But that may be a mistake, as many nonprofits pay higher rates than they need to, meaning less money going to the mission and more money going to payment processing fees.

Am I too old or just not opening my eyes to see the fundraising opportunity of Bitcoin?

The United Way has jumped on the Bitcoin bandwagon, joining several nonprofits in accepting Bitcoin donations. Should your fundraising department hop on board with Bitcoin as well?