NPA's finances.For the first time in more than six years the Newsletter Publishers Assn. finished its fiscal year (1998-99) in the red, by $19,000, because of two non-budgeted items totaling nearly $30,000. Despite a decline in membership and decrease in conference attendance (both attributed in part to the recent wave of mergers), the NPA (1) (Numbering Plan Area) The Bellcore/Telcordia telephone area code system in use in the U.S., Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and islands in the Caribbean. See NPA code. (2) (Network Professional Association, San Diego, CA, www.npanet. is in solid financial condition. It has a reserve fund of nearly $1 million--all in government backed funds--at the end of the fiscal year on June 30th. One non-budgeted item was $20,000 in legal fees spent by NPA to file a 'friend of the court" brief with the Supreme Court. The brief emphasized that the court must not back away from the long-established principle that newsletters are entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: to the full measure of protection afforded to the press by the First Amendment. The case involves a California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). newsletter The 'Jailmail' Register (NL/NL August '99). Another non-budgeted item of nearly $10,000 paid for the research and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. needed for the strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. session held by the board in Philadelphia in March. The board approved a 1999-00 budget that calls for anticipated revenues of $1,921,337 and expenses that will exceed revenue by about $32,000. Last year NPA took in revenues of $1,006,819. The new budget is certain to make some members of the NPA Foundation unhappy because it eliminated the foundation's request for $25,000. |
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