Newsletter foundation grapples with possible administrative fee imposed by association.Three days into the NEPA conference, members of the Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Foundation told NL/NL that they felt "blindsided" by an action taken by the NEPA board of directors only one day before the foundation's semi-annual meeting held in conjunction with the conference. NEPA intends to levy a five percent administrative fee on the foundation, presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. based on staff salaries Most of the foundation's meeting focused on this levy. "Last year the foundation raised a little more than $29,000 in contributions," reported one board member, who asked to go unnamed. "If the five percent administrative fee was in place last year, it would have forced the board to give back to NEPA some $28,000. That would have left us just $1,000 in contributions." The NEPA foundation is a tax-exempt organization and is a separate entity from the association. Under the guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. established many years ago, the administrative functions of the foundation are performed by the NEPA staff "at no charge to the foundation." NEPA itself has been forced to cut back on expenses in recent years because membership has dropped sharply (currently at 601) and annual revenues have gone from a high of around $1.2 million to more than $800,000 today. However, NEPA executive director Patti Wysocki has managed to steer steer castrated male cattle beast over a year of age. See also bullock, buller steer. steer bulling see bulling. steer Medtalk verb NEPA through these troubled times with only small short falls, and this year the association is scheduled to make a small profit. NEPA also has a cushion Cushion In the context of project financing, the extra amount of net cash flow remaining after expected debt service. cushion See call protection. of nearly $1 million in the bank. Association dissastified with foundation Some NEPA board members expressed dissatisfaction with the activities of the foundation and decided that the foundation, with more than $300,00 in assets, could afford to pay the fee. Michael Mealey, who just stepped down after serving as president of the foundation for six years, told NL/NL, "We are examining the amount of administrative support we require and hope to reach a mutual agreement and what support we can give back." Foundation board members feel their activities strengthen and complement the role of NEPA. They cited the Campus Visit Program, the publication of the newsletter Career Guide, the scholarship program, the University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. survey, and other activities. They felt a levy is unwarranted and might doom the foundation. Journalism Awards program The foundation also runs the Journalism Awards program, which has helped to establish the prestige and professional credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. of newsletters. The competition is a major source of revenue and makes a profit for the foundation. This year it took in more than $12,000 in entry fees. At the meeting, the foundation also approved the establishment of two new awards separate from the journalism awards. They will honor "innovative use of the internet in marketing newsletters." * Barrie Martland of MPL Communications MPL Communications is the holding company for the business interests of Sir Paul McCartney. In addition to handling McCartney's post-Beatles work, MPL has also become one of the world's largest privately owned music publishers through its acquisition of numerous other publishing Inc., Toronto, replaces Mealey as president of the foundation. Helen Hoart of The Consumer Health Publishing Group, Stamford, Conn., becomes vice president. Patti Wysocki of the association, remains secretary-treasurer, and Andy McLaughlin of Paperclip Communications, Little Falls Little Falls is the name of some places in the United States of America:
* Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : If NEPA is breaking with its original mandate to provide NEPF administrative functions "at no charge to the foundation," so, too, is NEPF now breaking a gentlemen's agreement gentlemen's agreement, in U.S. history, an agreement between the United States and Japan in 1907 that Japan should stop the emigration of its laborers to the United States and that the United States should stop discrimination against Japanese living in the United with The Newsletter on Newsletters. When the association began its awards program, NL/NL had already been running one for six years for newsletter design and promotion. The association agreed to stick to just newsletter journalism and leave design and promotion to this newsletter. Now NEPF has begun honoring online newsletter marketing in competition with NL/NL. |
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