More than a dozen Minnesota foundations are collaboratively launching a new website, GiveMN, to encourage individual donors to support their favorite Minnesota nonprofits by contributing online.

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In her first 100 days, the new president and CEO of the Greater Twin Cities United Way plans to meet with at least 100 community leaders, including partner agencies, volunteers, board members, donors and state policy officials.

Nonprofit consulting and publishing firm considers new staffing models, revenue streams.

The museum has no home; its art is in storage. But its board and new director are planning its new life, which may include an emphasis on crafts.

Since 1998 Dane Henning Jahn has led study groups from Denmark to Minneapolis. He says he's brought around 150 people to learn about Lifeworks. He also has taken people from Lifeworks to speak in Denmark.

Dozens of recipients are profiled in the new book, "MicroGrants: It's Working," edited by Jim Klobuchar and MicroGrants founder Joe Selvaggio.

Clare Housing is at a crossroads, wrestling with the "What Next?" question as it prepares for a strategic-planning process.

Despite the bleak financial conditions of the past year, up pops a new foundation called the Tiwahe Foundation. It's starting with a modest $1 million endowment and plans to raise a total of $6 million in the next eight to 10 years.

Brian Paulson of the Greater Twin Cities United Way is floating the idea that nonprofits involved in selling goods and services could band together to create a joint online marketing effort.

Mission-related investing has been around for a long time, but there seems to be a growing interest among philanthropists these days.

The Minnesota Department of Revenue deserves a tip of the cap. It is drafting a new rule covering sales tax breaks for nonprofits' fundraising events, and it started conversations with nonprofit groups early in the process to work out the kinks.

As a tough economy stresses nonprofits, many join forces in order to serve clients, survive and grow.

The audit and consulting giant Deloitte LLP launched its Center for Leadership & Community in 2007 to support nonprofits, and this year it started offering it in the Twin Cities.

Robert Lang, CEO of the Mannweiller Foundation, discussed the L³C concept at the New Economic Models for News conference at the University of Minnesota.

Many nonprofits blend characteristics of all three organizational approaches to cope with conflicts within their groups and with others. Nonprofits, one expert said, face intense pressure to choose strategies to get the greatest financial return — which may not be the same thing as addressing the greatest community need.

Joshua DuBois lays out the differences between the Bush and Obama administrations on faith-based partnerships.

The new Serve America Act has dropped time limits for AmeriCorps volunteering, allows seniors to earn education credits that they can donate to children or grandchildren and in other ways seeks to recruit older Americans.

The Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, having hit a down economy and lower-than-expected fundraising, is suspending support for 500 Under 5 and the Caring for Kids Initiative until additional funds are secured.

At an event to update Minnesota nonprofits on federal initiatives, regional administrator Joyce Thomas encourages the state to retain an adviser to faith-based and community initiatives.

Cornerstone, a Bloomington-based nonprofit with a mission to prevent domestic violence, is trying to go national with a service that allows domestic violence providers to share real-time information about who has open emergency beds.