October 2013

Register Today for NYSAE’s October 16 Finance & Management Institute

Designed specifically for board members, CEOs, CFOs and senior management, NYSAE's Finance & Management Institute will focus on changes to New York's Not-for-Profit Corporation Law and investment outlooks.

The program begins with a review of New York's Non-Profit Revitalization Act, a bill that makes comprehensive updates to the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, as well as several other statutes related to nonprofits. The bill passed both houses of New York's legislature unanimously and is awaiting delivery to the Governor's office. The Act would be the first major revision to New York's nonprofit laws in more than 40 years.
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• The Art of Negotiation
• Board Dynamics and Dysfunction
• Going Beyond the Logo: How to Integrate Your Brand for Success
• Mass Miscommunication: How Misusing Digital Tools Undermines Results
• Seven Reasons Why Powerful People Fall
• Is Tax Exemption Obsolete?
• Member News
• Book Beat

The compensation package you draw at one association can set the pattern for the level of income you can command when negotiating with future employers. The terms you agree on will have a far-reaching impact on your entire career, so it is important to master the art of negotiation. It is not unusual for the difference between the earnings of two individuals to have far less to do with skills and talents than with each person's ability to negotiate.
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Board Dynamics and Dysfunction was the topic of conversation when 30 women met at the offices of NYSSA on September 13 for NYSAE’s Executive Women in Nonprofits Shared Interest Group. To prepare, attendees were asked to review in advance the Harvard study—Dysfunction in the Boardroom: Understanding the persistent gender gap at the highest levels. Following is a summary of the provocative and interactive discussion
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Integrated branding—the concept of having all aspects of marketing communications work together in unified force with a consistent message—continues to gain acceptance.
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The very tools that enable us to maintain contact with people all over the world also distort our priorities, fragment our concentration, degrade our ability to listen, and scatter our attention. But like any other tool, our phones, computers, and tablets are inanimate objects. They aren’t the problem. We are.
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New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, and hedge fund manager Steven Cohen all share something in common. They're all influential leaders in their field who engaged in risky behavior that caused them to plummet from positions of power. No leadership sphere is free of fallen heroes, whether it's in business, the nonprofit or government arena, the entertainment world, athletics, or religion.
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As Congress begins to debate broad-based tax reform, with everything on the table, is federal income tax-exempt status for nonprofit membership and philanthropic organizations at risk? Maybe, but not yet, concludes Jerry Jacobs, a partner at the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, who tackled that topic at NYSAE’s September Welcome Back Luncheon.
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