Communiqué No. 16: Escalating Pension Benefit Costs -- Another Threat to Nonprofit Survival?

Provides findings from a national survey of nonprofits that examines the benefits of nonprofit retirement programs, explores the financial stress the plans are under, and describes the coping strategies developed by organizations

Communiqué No. 19: Recession Pressures on Nonprofit Jobs

Summarizes findings from a national survey on nonprofit employment that was conducted in April 2010. The report describes evidence of workforce strain during the current recession with increased demand for services. Nonprofit have also demonstrated resilience in maintaining staffing levels

Communiqué No. 15: Health Care and Nonprofits: The Hidden Dimension of America's Health Care Crisis

Providings findings from a national survey that examines how nonprofits and their employees are affected by rising health care costs

Nanoscale magnetic structure of ferromagnet/antiferromagnet manganite multilayers

Polarized Neutron Reflectometry and magnetometry measurements have been used to obtain a comprehensive picture of the magnetic structure of a series of La{2/3}Sr{1/3}MnO{3}/Pr{2/3}Ca{1/3}MnO{3} (LSMO/PCMO) superlattices, with varying thickness of the antiferromagnetic (AFM) PCMO layers (0<=t_A<=7.6 nm). While LSMO presents a few magnetically frustrated monolayers at the interfaces with PCMO, in the latter a magnetic contribution due to FM inclusions within the AFM matrix was found to be maximized at t_A~3 nm. This enhancement of the FM moment occurs at the matching between layer thickness and cluster size, where the FM clusters would find the optimal strain conditions to be accommodated within the "non-FM" material. These results have important implications for tuning phase separation via the explicit control of strain.Comment: 4 pages, submitted to PR

Communiqué No. 10: A Nonprofit Workforce Action Agenda

Presents findings from the Listening Post Project roundtable on nonprofit recruitment and retention that was convened on March 5, 2008

Observation of the spontaneous vortex phase in the weakly ferromagnetic superconductor ErNi2_{2}B2_{2}C: A penetration depth study

The coexistence of weak ferromagnetism and superconductivity in ErNi$_{2}$B$_{2}$C suggests the possibility of a spontaneous vortex phase (SVP) in which vortices appear in the absence of an external field. We report evidence for the long-sought SVP from the in-plane magnetic penetration depth $\Delta \lambda (T)$ of high-quality single crystals of ErNi$_{2}$B$_{2}$C. In addition to expected features at the N\'{e}el temperature $T_{N}$ = 6.0 K and weak ferromagnetic onset at $T_{WFM}=2.3$K, $\Delta \lambda (T)$ rises to a maximum at $T_{m}=0.45$ K before dropping sharply down to $\sim$0.1 K. We assign the 0.45 K-maximum to the proliferation and freezing of spontaneous vortices. A model proposed by Koshelev and Vinokur explains the increasing $\Delta \lambda (T)$ as a consequence of increasing vortex density, and its subsequent decrease below $T_{m}$ as defect pinning suppresses vortex hopping.Comment: 5 pages including figures; added inset to Figure 2; significant revisions to tex

Communiqué No. 22: What Do Nonprofits Stand For? Renewing the Nonprofit Value Commitment

This report aims to determine the core values of the nonprofit sector. It found that a broad group of nonprofits are in agreement about these value attributes, but feel that key stakeholders in government, the media, and the general public do not understand them and the consequences could be harmful for the sector unless steps are taken to correct this. With bibliographical references

Holding the Fort: Nonprofit Employment During a Decade of Turmoil

This report presents data on year-to-year changes in employment in nonprofit establishments in the United States from January 2000 through June 2010, with a special focus on how nonprofit employment fared during the 2007-2009 recession. Examines data by nonprofit fields, geographic region, and compares it to findings in the for-profit sector. With bibliographical references

Communiqué No. 21: Taxing the Tax-exempt Sector: A Growing Danger for Nonprofit Organizations

Presents findings from a survey of nonprofit organizations in four fields: children and family services, elderly housing and services, community and economic development, and arts and culture. Report sheds light on the practice of state and local governments targeting nonprofits as sources of needed revenues, sometimes using special fees, field-specific taxes, or PILOTs that get around nonprofit exemptions from property and other taxes. With bibliographical references