Terry Miller . biz
Welcome!
This is the home page for
Terry Miller.

My purpose is help the
nonprofit sector by providing
a variety of free information
and tools.  

And not least, to provide
myself a soap box!
The pages on this site are:

  • Download Materials - a variety of free educational materials, spreadsheet
    templates, and Power Point presentations, sorted by topic, intended to provide
    a free service and get the basics out of the way.  Later, I may make some
    information available on a paid basis, such as my book.

  • External Resources - this page is a list of resources:  other organizations,
    practitioners and resources to help nonprofits.

  • [The New] Form 990 (for 2008) - information, opinion, and training materials
    on the New 990 - the first major overhaul in decades of this key, very publicly
    available form.

  • Q&A - users (you!) can send questions which I will edit (to generalize) and
    answer.   Some overlap with the Screeds page.

  • Jobs Search - a page of good resources for finding or posting a job in the
    nonprofit sector, particularly in the finance realm and Bay Area.

  • Who Am I? - my areas of expertise & bio / background qualifications with
    linked: c.v., list of formal public presentations, and a chronological summary of
    my client engagements.  

  • Contact Me - a basic contact form with space for question or comment; page
    also has a link that will open your email program to send me email.

  • Screeds - this will be where I blog my opinions on the nonprofit sector,
    regulators, watchdogs, the press and public opinion.  Opinions here and
    throughout my site are my fault alone!  Some overlap with the Q&A page.
Common Sense about Nonprofit
Financial Management and Tax Compliance Issues
Upcoming Public Workshops & Seminars
None currently scheduled.
Citizens United v. FEC:  What does it mean for nonprofits?
The US Supreme Court, on 1/21/2010, released a ground-shaking opinion (exploiting a much narrower set of facts in the
case before them) to reverse over 100 years of legislation and court decisions about the role of corporations in elections
(they apparently feel corporate interests are under-represented).  Not to mention giving corporations rights granted in
the Bill of Rights.  
For more on this and what it means for nonprofits, I have a longer discussion on my screeds page.
New Form 990 (for 2009) is out.  There have been some changes.
IRS has published a list of what it sees as key changes; some of them are important.  The forms and instructions are all
ready now on the IRS website.  I will work to update my 990 page in the next couple months.  Also remember that for
2009, the threshold for when you must file the full 990 (vs. the 990-EZ) drops to $500,000 (from $1M) in "gross receipts"
(and for 2010 will drop to $200,000, when the 990-EZ threshold will rise from "ordinarily" <$25K to ordinarily <$50K).  
There is also an Assets threshold for filing even if your gross receipts are low, but most of my readers don't run any risk
of triggering that one!  :-)