Writing in the Wall Street Journal recently, Erin Chambers offered several sound tips for new nonprofit board members. But I can’t help but take issue with how she opens her otherwise useful piece:
Since so few of them pay these days, joining the board of a nonprofit is usually more about passion—or resume building—than making a […]
The incoming president of the Smithsonian Institution said all the right things after being named its new chief executive over the weekend. The Smithsonian has been tarnished by financial malfeasance committed by its previous secretary, and when Georgia Tech president G. Wayne Clough was tapped by the Institution’s Board of Regents Friday night, he directly […]
For nonprofits that open their doors to the public and count on ticket purchases for a chunk of their revenue, there’s the finest of lines between savvy marketing and selling out. Last week the Philadelphia Inquirer presented a fascinating case study, writing about the efforts of the city’s venerable Franklin Institute, one of the country’s […]
Mid-March doesn’t just mean trouble for Julius Caeser and countless work hours lost to NCAA brackets. It’s time to get serious about your 2007 tax return, and that means you, too, nonprofit CFOs. Fortunately, the b5 media Business Channel has you covered. Channel editor and tax attorney Kelly Phillips Erb is the author of the […]
Today is March 14.
Or, 3/14.
Or, 3.14
Recognize that last number? It’s the first three digits of pi, 22 divided by 7, that magical equation that marks the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
The Exploratorium, the nifty San Francisco science museum, has been celebrating Pi Day for a decade now, and today will offer exhibits, […]
Nonprofits can’t afford to throw money at their problems. Creative thinking is an extraordinarily vital item for them to have in their toolkit in order to further their missions. One way to actualize such thinking is for them to be on the lookout for socioeconomic changes and to leverage those changes in support of their […]
Eighty-six the boring note from your executive director and use your newsletter to tell the organization’s story instead.
Why should Baby Boomers have all the fun? Advice on starting your career in the nonprofit sector.
Fundraising: so far, so good, crappy economy and all.
"Giving is the new getting." In other words: Philanthropy — not just for the […]
For all of the talk about nonprofit accountability and professionalism, the sector’s largest segment, government, gets something of a free pass. We all gripe about government waste and sloth, with the depressing knowledge that nothing ever — ever — gets done about it. And then we turn to the sports page or the gossip column.
David […]
Sunday’s Washington Post ran a paint-by-numbers story about a presentation by a migrant worker to 7th through 12th graders at a private school in Annapolis. The presentation was “part of the Key School’s in-depth study of migrant farm laborers,” said the story, which is pretty standard stuff — until you consider that the school took […]
U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes, a Democrat from Maryland, reminds readers of the Washington Post in a letter to the editor that he wrote legislation last year aimed at giving young nonprofit employees a break on their college loans:
Last fall, Congress enacted the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which makes college more affordable. Within […]
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