Uphill Needs, Downhill Revenues
The Nonprofit Newswire is a valuable source of news tracking trends among community based organizations. In this item, they link to the Modesto, California Bee for its article, Long Road Back: As Need Grows Modesto-area Non-Profits Forced to Make Cuts by Kevin Valine: “Agencies that feed, clothe and shelter people and counsel them when they are in crisis have laid off staff, not filled vacant positions, relied more on volunteers, and reduced hours and services to make ends meet — despite a steady increase in demand.” Writing in the Nonprofit Newswire, Bruce Trachtenberg asks, with organizations and leaders face declining revenues and growing demands and “the people running them still find reasons to be optimistic?”
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