Nonprofitist.org

Let me tell you what we have in mind here.

There are two main types of blogs related to nonprofit organizations: one category includes blogs of nonprofit organzizations, that come to life, as most commentators suggest, mostly as a communication and marketing effort, driven by a desire to better relate to one organization’s target audiences, be it customers/users, donors, media or others; the other category includes blogs about nonprofit organizations, where managers, leaders and administrators share their insights on their industry and on the “arts and crafts” of starting, developing and running such an activity.

This blog takes place in the latter category, with a few distinctions that we hope will allow us to play a specific role in the nonprofit blogosphere:

• our stories and related insights are generated by our experience ”from the field” of establishing a nonprofit organization; good stuff, bad stuff and all in between will have its right to be presented here at our blog
• due to the nature of the organization we’re currently establishing (i.e. a global student nonprofit organization), this blog will focus on issues faced by international nonprofits around the world; many blogs in English have been focusing on the American reality of 501’s, IRS’s and state laws: we’ll try to avoid any national or regional bias and think truly globally (but still in English, for the time being)
• this blog will start by focusing on how to start up an international nonprofit organization; there are no long-term goals, we’ll just see how it goes from there

This said, see you soon with our first article!