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Welcome to the NonProfit Eye! If you’ve just landed here, the blog is devoted to keeping an eye on current issues affecting nonprofits. Find links to some of my favorites (by topic) below.

Motivated by an alarming change in climate in the nonprofit environment, the Nonprofit Eye launched in April '06. Our industry is under attack, with our very identity between a rock and a hard place. Are we as professional as a business? Are we so professional that we aren't a charity anymore? Are we pushing political agenda's? Are we government sub-contractors or agents of change? Everywhere I look, another threat to our tax-exempt status if we don't tow the line. Worse still, are we beginning to believe the attacks? is the public?

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Anonymous said…
Nice way to introduce new readers or subscribers. Did you subscriptions pick up?
10/28/2006 2:35 PM
P. Ashlund said…
Yes, I have 3.5 subscribers now! LOL (there was a big viewer spike after the Blogher article though!). I'll have to email you the google analytic. My single biggest day. I keep on cranking them out though (just in case).
10/28/2006 2:49 PM
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