Nonprofit news from around the web: Oct. 8 – 12, 2018

In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting nonprofit news items from around the web.

10 things keeping nonprofit auditors up at night
The internal audit function is vital to the health of every nonprofit. Here’s a list of the top 10 challenges keeping internal auditors up at night, and possible remedies to help continue the critical work.

‘We are Americans’
Immigrant philanthropists are an overlooked force in this country. Who are they, and what causes do they give to?

Nonprofit news is a US$350 million industry, according to new report
After a decade of concentrated growth, the nonprofit news sector now pulls in almost US$350 million in total annual revenue, dominated in particular by the organizations started almost a decade ago, according to a new report.

The profession’s biggest challenges
In a survey of accounting professionals, the impact of new technologies and accounting’s ability to adapt to the rapid pace of change were most frequently cited as the biggest challenges facing the profession, raising a host of subsidiary issues that accountants will need to address in the future.

Tech Corner - Does your motherboard have a secret Chinese spy chip?
News stories claiming that China has been secretly planting a spy chip in server motherboards used by U.S. companies has prompted a rush by security researchers to try and find it, amid denials from the companies affected.