State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey: The Nonprofit Finance Fund

Nonprofit Finance Fund Releases "State of the Nonprofit Sector" Survey Results Nonprofits Striving for Long Term Financial Survival The Nonprofit Finance Fund's sixth annual State of the Nonprofit Sector Report depicts a National Nonprofit sector struggling to meet a heightening demand for services, while at the same time deal with increasing revenue cuts. The results reflect ongoing issues, such as continuing gaps and inconsistencies of funding streams to New York State Nonprofits, which drastically decrease the likelihood of long term financial survival for the State's sector. The survey had a total of 5,019 respondents, with a representative number 462 nonprofit organizations from New York State. For specific data on New York State please click here. Some of the highlights from the Survey comparing New York State and the National Survey results can be found below: NYS matched the National number of 80% of respondents reporting a slight or significant increase in the demand for services.  50% of NYS Nonprofits, compared to the 56% Nationally, were unable to meet demand in 2013- the highest reported in the survey's history. 31% of NYS Nonprofits, compared to 28% Nationally, ended FY2013 with an operating deficit See below for specific New York State data results:   When government contracting payments are late 38% of Nonprofits stated they use reserves while 26% rely on a loan, line of credit, or some other type of debt.   Between 40-45% of Nonprofits stated that their Federal, State, or Local funding had declined.      23% of Nonprofits reported that the Average Indirect Rate paid by the state is 0-3%  50% of Nonprofits reported that NYS contracts are 30 to over 90 days late on payment.   Top barrier reported in measuring impact was not enough staff and time  NYCON will continue to update our members on the latest trends and research on our State's Nonprofit Sector.  Let us know how these trends resonate with your organization, email Amber Vanderwarker, Policy & Program Associate at NYON.

Meet our Speakers! Care Management Summit 2014: Achieving Excellence

Click here to view this email online Join us at the Care Management Summit 2014 Thursday-Friday, May 22-23 Dear Colleagues,  The Binghamton University College of Community and Public Affairs (part of  the State University of New York system) invites you to the Care Management  Summit 2014: Achieving Excellence. Conveniently located and affordable, this  is the first conference of its kind in central New York. Meet our Summit 2014  Speakers!   Distribute widely! Focusing on the specialties of care and case management, the Summit promises  to be a great event for those interested in best practices in a growing field. The summit is designed to provide the concepts, networking opportunities, and up-to- date information needed to practice care and case management in today's dynamic, evolving environment. Anticipated attendees include direct caregivers, educators, helping professionals, organizations, policy-makers and researchers from New York state and beyond. Participants are projected to include 200 individuals from many disciplines who  provide care and case management services, with a concentration of practitioners  from the Tri-State area. Such services include but are not limited to case screening; education; individualized assessment; service planning, implementation and  monitoring; palliative care; outcome evaluation; and utilization monitoring and review. In addition, our 2014 Summit will highlight service models for growing and special populations such as elders, individuals with disabilities, patients with multiple  chronic conditions, and veterans. A variety of advertising, exhibit and sponsorship options gives all individuals and  groups the chance to increase knowledge about the benefits of their products and services. For example, all attendees will receive "passports" as incentives to visit  every exhibitor for a sticker or stamp. You may also bring a door prize item that can  be drawn from your vendor table. Others organizational representative may choose  to participate as speakers. Learn more about the Summit by visiting our website. Please register online prior toWednesday, April 30.  We have over 25+ speakers, including plenary speakers DrPatricia Bomba and Esther Greenhouse, authors Martha Stettinius and Dr Karl Pillemer, engaging panel workshops that address today's issues..., plus world cafe',  and many networking and conversation opportunities! Visit our Care Management Summit Facebook Event Page ! For information, please contact Kim Evanoski, MPA, LMSW, CDP, Binghamton  University Adjunct Professor/Field Liaison at cmsummit@binghamton.edu. Alumni | B-Connected | Alumni Connect | Alumni Events Binghamton University | Think Binghamton | Give Now | Email Us

No Break for Idealware Seminars this Spring

		March 2014 Upcoming Idealware Training Students around the country are counting the days until spring break--and summer vacation--but not us. At Idealware, we're ramping up our training calendar. Spring break is too crowded and noisy, summer still a long way off. Leave the tropics to the college students, crank up the heat at your office, and join one of our upcoming seminars. (If you truly can't stand this stubborn winter and have already fled south to wait it out, remember that you can participate in our online seminars from anywhere with an internet connection.) In March, we’re offering all sorts of different training models to match your needs. Mastering Your Mix: A Practical Approach to Integrated Communications is a five-week course designed to make your communications mix powerful and effective, and The Private Foundation’s Grants Management Toolkit will save your foundation time and energy in the system-selection process. Have a little less time to work with? We’re also offering a 90-minute session on email fundraising, and a two-part course on getting your office infrastructure into shape. Remember, we always offer recorded seminars atidealware.org/online-training, and all of our live sessions are also recorded, so you can listen to them at your own convenience. Read a little more about what we have to offer below, and make this spring break your most educational yet. back to top New Course: Mastering Your Mix: A Practical Approach to Integrated Communications March 19 to April 16Between more traditional channels of communications like direct mail, email, and newsletters, and all the new channels you’ve adopted—like social media, multimedia, and blogs—there’s a lot to think about when it comes to your organization’s messaging. How do you create and maintain a consistent voice across so many channels? How do you coordinate your various communications to work in tandem rather than competing, engaging constituents and inspiring them to take action rather than confusing, overwhelming, or annoying them? This brand new course is the perfect complement to our popular publication, A Practical Guide to Integrated Communications: A Workbook for Nonprofits. Over five weeks, we will help you to understand your communications. We'llexplore their roles in your messaging, and assess your current state of effectiveness before walking you through the planning, scheduling, and implementation stages of creating a communications plan. Along the way, you’ll learn to measure the response you’re getting to adapt your techniques for better results, and ultimately learn to holistically integrate your communications. Five Wednesdays, 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST, $200. Read More or Register>>> New Course: The Private Foundation's Grants Management Toolkit April 10 to May 8As a grantmaker, you work most efficiently when you have a comprehensive overview of your applications, reviewers, requirements, and payments. The right grants management system can save you time by pulling all of this tracking together in a single place, but the marketplace has never been more varied and complex. Researching all of the options, scheduling demos, and identifying your needs can take months. The Private Foundation’s Grants Management Toolkit can expedite the core elements of the process to a few short weeks. In this brand new series, Idealware’s grants management software experts will explore the available options for accepting and reviewing applications and tracking grants throughout their life cycles, take a look at what grants management systems do, and compare the strengths and weakness of the packages available for United States-based foundations. Then we’ll recommend packages that might work for your foundation based on our highly regarded research. Classes April 10 and May 8 from 1:00 – 2:30 PM EST, and nine system demos on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays fromApril 15 to May 1 at 1:00 – 2:00 EST, $400. Read More or Register>>> Single Seminars Thursday, March 20 - Getting Started with Email FundraisingFundraising via email requires an understanding of a number of different elements--designing an email campaign, writing an email, avoiding spam filters, broadcast email tools, online donation tools, and more. We'll walk through what you'll need to know to design your own email fundraising campaign. 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST, $40.00. Read More or Register>>> Thursdays, March 27 & April 3 - Covering Your Bases: Two Part Infrastructure CourseIn this two-part seminar, we'll cover the important pieces that keep your office up and running (and no, we don't mean coffee). In the first session, we'll look at how you can make the most of your hardware infrastructure, including computers, printers, phones, networking, and more. In the second, we'll go through what software you need the most to support your organization, including productivity software, email, scheduling, and collaboration tools. Throughout, we'll discuss how you can keep all this infrastructure secure, share and backup files, and save money and time. Two Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST, $65.00. Read More or Register>>> Thursday, April 17 - Measuring Your Mission: Using Data to Track Organizational Health and SuccessAs a leader of your organization, you'd probably like to see clear metrics to track your programs, outreach efforts, and the financial health of your organization. It can be daunting to define the right measures though -- where do you even start?  Based on NTEN's and Idealware's research into what's actually working for nonprofits, we'll talk through what you should think about to define your own data-based metrics strategy, and hear from organizations who have successfully implemented their own strategies. 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST, $40.00. Read More or Register>>> Check out our website for even more great online training:www.idealware.org/online-training back to top You received this email because you signed up for Idealware updates. If you are no longer interested in hearing from us, click here to unsubscribe. Idealware | One Pleasant Street, Suite 4E | Portland ME | 04101			INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS March 19 Mastering Your Mix: A Practical Approach to Integrated Communications GRANTS MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT April 10 The Private Foundation's Grants Management Toolkit SINGLE SEMINARS March 20Getting Started with Email Fundraising March 27Covering Your Bases: Two Part Infrastructure Course April 17 Measuring Your Mission: Using Data to Track Organizational Health and Success SUBSCRIBE If you have received this email second-hand, you can subscribe on the Idealware website. Subscribe Now » DONATE TO IDEALWARE Have Idealware reports and articles saved you time? Money? Allowed you to make better decisions? If so, please donate what they are worth to you and help keep these resources coming. Donate Now » CONNECT WITH US Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to get more software resources, links, and news about Idealware.

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Special Webinar Series on Medicaid Compliance

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Medicaid Compliance...But Were Afraid to Ask [Special Lunch & Learn Webinar Series]  Various Dates - April through June 2014 Free to NYCON Members; $75 for Nonmembers Register Today Medicaid Compliance... Medicaid Compliance Plans ... Medicaid Self Auditing...Medicaid Self-Disclosures... Medicaid Audits ... Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse...Office of the Medicaid Inspector General ... OMIG...If these words and phrases are part of a typical day at your nonprofit, we have designed the perfect series of webinars for you. In four 90-minute sessions we will be covering: Medicaid Compliance 101 & the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) Knowing Thy (Compliant) Self: How to Conduct a Medicaid Self Audit Self-Disclosure is Not a Four Letter Word!: Protocols & Procedures of Medicaid Self Disclosure Preparing For, and Surviving, an OMIG Medicaid Audit Participants will hear directly from experts in the field (including David R. Ross, former Acting Medicaid Inspector General for the State of New York, and David Rottkamp, CPA and leader of Grassi & Co.'s not-for-profit practice area) and get the practical information they need to provide appropriate oversight and management of Medicaid-funded programs, understand the role of the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, and much more. See detailed session descriptions below. April 9th, 2014     11:00am to 12:30pm Medicaid Compliance 101 and the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) Changes to the oversight of the Medicaid program led to the creation of the OMIG. Learn about the OMIG's powers and duties, as well as its requirements for compliance plans and annual compliance certification for certain types of providers. Also learn about the importance of compliance and other compliance-related issues. Join our experts to hear about reducing Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse before the Medicaid program is billed, and how to have systems that will identify when errors are made so that corrections can be initiated and made by providers. Provider misconduct, also known as "unacceptable practices," will be illustrated along with the various sanctions available to the OMIG, including exclusion from the Medicaid program and enrollment termination. A question and answer period will be provided. REGISTER   Webinars are free for NYCON Members Non-Members $75 per session or $275 for all four.  *If you would like to attend all four, please choose "Series Ticket" type. You will be automatically registered for each session through June. All webinars are from 11am to 12:30pm   May 15th, 2014     11:00am to 12:30pm Know Thy (Compliant) Self: How to Conduct a Medicaid Self Audit Part of any provider's compliance program is their compliance plan, and the key part of any compliance plan is the concept of risk assessment and self auditing. This means identifying where errors are most likely to be made, and then reviewing your Medicaid claims and documentation for compliance with applicable requirements. Hypotheticals for risk assessment and self audit will be discussed. As participants will hear, self auditing can be the best preventative medicine. A question and answer period will be provided. REGISTER   Webinars are free for NYCON Members Non-Members $75 per session or $275 for all four.  *If you would like to attend all four, please choose "Series Ticket" type. You will be automatically registered for each session through June. All webinars are from 11am to 12:30pm   June 5th, 2014    11:00am to 12:30pm Self-Disclosure is Not a Four Letter Word! Protocols & Procedures of Medicaid Self Disclosure Under Obamacare, providers are required to report, repay and explain all Medicaid overpayments received. Learn what "overpayments" are, the sixty day rule, and the federal False Claims Act, which imposes potentially severe civil liability on providers for failing to self-report, repay and explain overpayments received. Learn how to handle routine overpayment situations and also when to seek advice on non-routine matters. A question and answer period will be provided. REGISTER   Webinars are free for NYCON Members Non-Members $75 per session or $275 for all four.  *If you would like to attend all four, please choose "Series Ticket" type. You will be automatically registered for each session through June. All webinars are from 11am to 12:30pm   June 19th, 2014    11:00am to 12:30pm Preparing for and Surviving an OMIG Medicaid Audit This workshop will provide you with an overview of how an OMIG Medicaid audit is conducted and how the audit process works. Learn how to prepare for the audit, how to interact with the auditors when they arrive, and when to seek counsel. Potential defenses to audit findings will also be briefly covered. A question and answer period will be provided.  REGISTER   Webinars are free for NYCON Members Non-Members $75 per session or $275 for all four.  *If you would like to attend all four, please choose "Series Ticket" type. You will be automatically registered for each session through June. All webinars are from 11am to 12:30pm