Having brought the hammer down on Wall Street, Eliot Spitzer should have been well aware of the dangers of the for-profit sector. Yet when it came time to betray both his marriage and the people of New York State, the governor didn’t have the good sense to go the nonprofit route. Instead, he paid money […]
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How does the competition for donors affect nonprofit behavior?
Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, a.k.a. Barack Obama’s mom: influenced by her work with nonprofits.
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Management expert Jim Collins, the author of the New York Times bestseller Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, spoke recently with Contribute editor Marcia Stepanek about his thoughts on what he calls the "social sector." A couple of years back Collins wrote a 36-page monograph applying the topics […]
We’re in the second day of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s first round, which means we’ve already seen lots of shots of well-dressed coaches pacing frantically along sidelines, gesticulating wildly, yelling out plays, berating officials, and exhorting their players.
You’d be forgiven, especially if you’re not a sports fan, for yawning, silently cursing these arrogant blowhards, […]
The Center for Companies That Care has released its 2008 honor roll, and a handful of nonprofits are sprinkled throughout the list. To make the honor roll, an organization must demonstrate 10 characteristics in its work environment:
Sustain a work environment founded on dignity and respect for all employees
Make employees feel their jobs are important
Cultivate the […]
Kelly Phillips Erb at taxgirl responded to a meme about the upcoming federal rebates by tagging me, among other b5media bloggers, to answer a couple of questions:
If you could do whatever you wanted, how would YOU spend your $600?
Is that the same or different from how you actually plan spend it?
Hmm. How much would it […]
"You are changing the world," notes Google on the home page of its new nonprofit portal. "We want to help."
I have to confess that initially I felt a touch of cynicism about the move. Most Google applications are already free, after all, so offering them for free to nonprofits hardly seems like the company is […]
Web 2.0, social media, client relations management systems, interactive media, direct mail, e-mail blasts, viral marketing, and on and on and on.
The world demands ever-increasing velocity, and nonprofits are no exception. They’re working like hell — sometimes successfully, sometimes not — to keep up with the changing times and apply new strategies and tactics to […]
Lots of nonprofits need lawyers — to lobby legislators, to litigate matters the organization is advocating, and so on.
Lawyers leave law school with the considerable burden of student loans to shoulder.
Nonprofits are being criticized by observers — including their own employees — for paying salaries that are unfairly low.
Uh-oh.
A potential solution comes from Harvard Law […]
With limited resources and a need to reach new publics, nonprofits would do well to consider the expanding realm of digital and interactive marketing. Rachel Clarke, who writes Behind the Buzz, this week’s b5media Business Channel blog of the week, is on top of the latest trends in the field. I know, I know — […]
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