2006 Donors Abel Solutions Thomas Gathers PricewaterhouseCoopers Accenture Georgia Power Company QuikTrip AEC Trust Georgia-Pacifi c RARE Hospitality International AGL Resources Betsey and Harald Hansen Walton Ray Allstate The John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland REM Charitable Foundation Bank of America The Rich Foundation Healthcare Georgia Foundation BellSouth Corporation The Rockdale Foundation John Hipp Mary Allen Lindsey Brannan Rock-Tenn Company The Home Depot Foundation Rollins, Inc. E. Lamont Houston Katharine Day Bremer Russell Athletic IBM Chevron Texaco Savannah Electric ING Han Choi Scientifi c-Atlanta Randy Johnson ChoicePoint see see eye Kaiser Permanente The Coca-Cola Company St. Marys United Methodist Church Ansley J. Colby King & Spalding Foundation The Community Foundation for KPMG Jim Stoddart Greater Atlanta The Kroger Company SunTrust Atlanta Foundation Courts Foundation Michael Lammons Synovus Financial Cox Enterprises Macy’s Central Troutman Sanders Ann Cramer Milton Clipper Tull Charitable Foundation Delta Air Lines Motto Magazine Turner Broadcasting System Equifax Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough Jane Smith Turner Foundation Federal Reserve Bank North Highland Company Jack and Evelyn Ullman FHL Bank Dave and Susan Peterson United Parcel Service in the center of it all Fidelity Foundation Pittulloch Foundation Wachovia John and Mary Franklin Porter Novelli Wellcare 2006-2007 Annual Report Foundation Helen Smith Price John Wieland Homes & The Foundation Center Price Gilbert Jr. Charitable Fund Neighborhoods J B Fuqua Foundation Robert W. Woodruff Foundation Nancy Young 2006 Financials Expenses Revenues and Support ■ Programatic Services 85% ■ Corporate Contributions 18% (including training, consulting, information, ■ Foundation Contributions 19% membership, advocacy and job services) ■ Earned Income 63% ■ Management & General 8% (including membership dues, workshop ■ Development & Fundraising 7% income, employment services income, consulting and commission income, product sales and investment returns) Georgia Center for Nonprofi ts • 50 Hurt Plaza, S.E. • Suite 845 • Atlanta, GA 30303 • 678-916-3000 • 800-959-5015 • 404-521-0487 fax The odds of hitting Our Cause is the Business of Nonprofi ts During the fi rst year, a total of seven pilot groups saved an average of 20 percent on budget your target go up lines such as offi ce supplies, printing and delivery services. Lauded by CNN Money, Purchasing dramatically when you Magazine and the Aberdeen Group analysts, Nonprofi t Marketplace is making its mark as one of aim at it When most people think about nonprofi ts they think of a cause. What we understand at the Georgia Center for the most innovative ideas for nonprofi t performance improvement in the country. —Mal Pancoast Nonprofi ts is that nonprofi ts are not causes – they are the businesses that support them! Often, nonprofi ts work with razor thin budgets on what are intractable social issues. This dynamic makes operational effectiveness and “The ability to streamline our purchasing activities through Nonprofi t Marketplace has allowed for effi ciency, leadership and strategy paramount to achieving maximum mission impact. improved organizational functionality, allowing for a greater focus on strengthening Atlanta’s creative community.” Joseph R. Bankoff, President and CEO, The Woodruff Arts Center This is why the Georgia Center for Nonprofi ts’ cause is the business of nonprofi ts. In Georgia we are the central source for tools, resources and know-how that thousands of nonprofi ts and their professional staff and boards Impact access daily to help them manage and govern better. Nationally, we are an elite leader in creating innovative A majority of the 1 million Georgians without health insurance rely on a network of undercapitalized and solutions that answer nonprofi t’s most strategic capacity issues. understaffed nonprofi t health organizations faced with escalating need as Georgia’s population and healthcare costs increase. Working in partnership with the Healthcare Georgia Foundation to provide the Healthcare Leadership, innovation and impact are hallmarks of great nonprofit businesses. For the Georgia Center for Georgia Capacity Building Project, Center consultants have completed comprehensive organizational Nonprofi ts, these principles are in the center of it all. assessments and development plans to help 15 health care organizations improve their management, governance and operational capabilities — and ultimately the impact of their missions. Leadership Refl ecting on a “We are acutely aware of the need to provide health care organizations with the tools necessary to A recent study commissioned by the Georgia Center for Nonprofits problem of great help build and sustain their ability to meet the needs of Georgians. The work of the Center provides found that 46% of all nonprofi t CEO’s in Georgia plan to retire or leave importance, Pope John Paul II expertise and analyses that will produce better community results.” their positions in the next 5 years. The cause? The baby-boom retirement said to himself “I must ask Gary D. Nelson, Ph.D., President, Healthcare Georgia Foundation the Pope about this”, phenomena and the stress caused by meeting organizational demands and then he remembered, with limited resources. Georgia has huge opportunities as well as barriers he was the Pope…. to success, which include air and water quality, green space preservation, and affordable housing, among others. A pipeline of capable leadership for our nonprofi t sector is a critical issue for a vibrant economy and quality of life. To support The Center by the Numbers our existing leadership and cultivate new leadership, the Georgia Center for Nonprofi ts The Georgia Center for Nonprofi ts is the third largest organization of its kind in the country and the only organization of its created CEO Central. This program features renowned management experts from our partners in the corporate, kind in the state, serving more than 9,000 nonprofi t professionals and 3,000 organizations each year. The Center’s reputation nonprofi t and academic sectors, making CEO Central one of the best resources for leadership development and support as the source for nonprofi t management, governance and leadership support is unduplicated and unrivaled in Georgia. in the Southeast. In 2006: “CEO Central is one of the most meaningful learning experiences that I have had in quite a long time. It is pertinent, contained • 2,000 nonprofi t professionals were trained via more than 150 on-line and in-class workshops focusing on key many learning points and was presented so well that one could not help but learn from it and embrace it.” performance areas including board development, strategic planning, fundraising and leadership development David M. Coleman, President and CEO of Atlanta Union Mission • 1,000 individuals convened at events across the state — from Town Hall meetings in Brunswick to the 15th Annual Georgia Nonprofi t Summit in Atlanta • 1,700 requests for information were answered via the Center’s help line and website Innovation • 156 consulting projects were completed for 119 organizations The Georgia Center for Nonprofi ts’ involvement with thousands of nonprofi t organizations • $250,000 was saved by nonprofi t organizations enrolled in Nonprofi t Marketplace enables us to identify problem patterns and test new solutions. Most recently, the Center • 4 sector-specifi c research projects were completed, including The Economic Impact of Georgia’s Innovation approached IBM to help address the limitations that nonprofi ts, as small businessess with small Nonprofi t Sector distinguishes between spending power, face in the procurement of commodities, services and the expensive technology • 10,000 nonprofi t employers and 90,000 job seekers were connected via Opportunity a leader and a follower platforms needed to drive effi ciency throughout their organizations. Together we launched the Knocks, the Center’s national nonprofi t employment website —Steve Jobs Nonprofi t Marketplace. This world-class spend management technology platform is loaded with premier suppliers who offer dramatically lower prices and increased effi ciency based on the collective spending of the nonprofi t sector. .