As nonprofits continue to face an increasingly challenging economic climate, Tides (www.tides.org), one of the country’s leading nonprofit infrastructure providers, has released Shared Services: A Guide to Creating Collaborative Solutions for Nonprofits – a new guide that helps nonprofits increase their operational efficiencies by establishing and operating shared services programs. Read more...

Answering the call of struggling nonprofits, ZoomInfo and DonorTrends has announced TrueGivers™ Profile Screening, a new tool to improve nonprofit fundraising through enhanced donor intelligence, database improvement and prioritized prospecting. TrueGivers™ Profile Screening combines the best ROI screening and analysis techniques for today's fast-changing fundraising market with the world’s most comprehensive source of business information on people and companies. Read more...

Taxpayers making monetary contributions in early 2010 to help Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake will be able to claim a deduction on their 2009 federal tax returns. The House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 4462 on January 20 to allow taxpayers to claim a charitable deduction on their 2009 returns for qualified Haiti disaster relief contributions made after January 11, 2010 and before March 1, 2010. The Senate approved the measure on January 21, and President Obama is expected to sign it when it reaches the White House. (from CCH Tax Briefing: tax.cchgroup.com/Legislation/HaitiEarthquakeRelief.pdf) Read more...