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Cybersecurity is one of the challenges nonprofit leaders will face in 2020 according to The NonProfit Times.

A bill to create a registry of workers found to have harmed a person with intellectual or developmental disabilities and prevent those individuals from being hired again is now headed to Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk.

The Council is offering an interactive workshop Thursday, February 20 to help providers explore how personal beliefs and values, school or agency culture, and culturally responsive policies and practices can impact their work with LGBTQ youth and families.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey offered sincere thanks to Providers’ Council members for their ongoing commitment to improving the lives of others at the Council’s Annual Leadership Forum at Suffolk University Law School on Wednesday. “Your work is profoundly important and profoundly moving,” she said to the crowd of nearly 80 human services leaders. “The

###  THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE COLLABORATIVE, A GROUP OF HUMAN SERVICE TRADE ASSOCIATIONS  ### Governor Baker’s budget proposal released Wednesday includes a record $160 million for the Chapter 257 and Human Services Reserve (1599‐6903) and the administration noted it intends to change the way salaries are set for human services workers

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA)  has called for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide refund guidance to tax-exempt organizations that paid a 21 percent unrelated business income tax (UBIT) on parking and transportation benefits provided to employees. In December, Congress retroactively repealed the portion of the 2017 tax law that

Our Jobs with Heart website saw its three best months of 2019 in October, November and December. Get in on the action and attract great job candidates by posting your open positions — it’s free for Providers’ Council members to use. More than 7,200 jobs have been posted to the Providers’ Council Jobs with Heart website, gaining over 1.5 million job exposures

If your organization is like many social service agencies, you are witnessing a transformation from pay-for-performance to value-based reimbursement. Shifts in reimbursement models are aligned with heightened funder expectations of robust customer service, high satisfaction rates, and active stakeholder engagement. How will this shift affect your operations, employees, and constituents—and are you prepared for such

The Providers’ Council has signed onto a national letter to oppose the nonprofit Internet Society’s sale of ownership of the .org Public Interest Registry to a private equity firm, Ethos Capital. The proposed sale would put the rights to more than 10 million domains in the hands of venture capitalists, who — without the longstanding

Nonprofits have a unique ability to build voter engagement in the communities they serve, according to Brian Miller, executive director of Cambridge-based Nonprofit VOTE.