I can’t say I was surprised to hear that the Cape Cod Baseball League, a collection of 10 teams of amateur players who compete throughout the charming Cape towns throughout the summer, was a nonprofit. Everything about the league screams throwback. The games are played at high schools, the players, from colleges across the country, […]
A pair of stories that broke recently offer some lessons for nonprofits on how to deal with bad news that becomes public.
In New York, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation not only cashiered a couple of employees when an internal audit revealed that hundreds of thousands of dollars was missing, it also asked the Manhattan district […]
GuideStar is a donor-centered organization; its mission, after all, involves the advancement of organizational transparency so that funders can make more educated giving decisions. But the firm sends out a month e-newsletter that has some terrific information for nonprofits themselves. This month’s piece includes five useful tips from Gail Perry, the author of Fired Up Fundraising: Turn Board […]
Wake up, America: Running an effective nonprofit takes more scratch than you think.
Size does matter: Even the most wee nonprofits now have to check in with the IRS.
Nonprofit hospitals get a reason — albeit a small one — to breathe a little bit easier.
Even more on the talent-retention challenge/crisis/fill in your favorite synonym here.
A novel proposal […]
There was something of a man-bites-dog story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, my hometown paper, this morning:
Attorney and prominent social services advocate Alba Martinez said yesterday that she is resigning as president and chief executive of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania to take a position overseeing college savings accounts at the mutual-fund giant Vanguard Group.
Martinez, […]
March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and tomorrow is International Women’s Day. In my younger, stupider days I would have questioned why women get such special call-outs while men don’t. The answer, of course, is that such issues as pay inequity, violence against women, and the lack of women in leadership positions […]
Rosetta Thurman writes engagingly and passionately about her life as a nonprofit fundraiser and finance pro at the blog Perspectives From the Pipeline. Her recent post about low nonprofit salaries generated such intense reader response that Ms. Thurman decided earlier today to offer some suggestions on how to negotiate a higher pay. The tips range from researching salaries for comparable […]
Carolyn Kellogg, who writes at the Los Angeles Times blog Jacket Copy, noted yesterday that the gang-truce nonprofit cited by fraudulent memoirist Margaret B. Jones (née Seltzer) as her means of remaining linked to the ‘hood where she didn’t grow up may — brace yourself – not exist:
… [W]ho talks to the little kids? The author […]
How many nonprofits, I wonder, start at someone’s kitchen table, with a couple of committed people hatching an idea, scratching out endless pages of notes on a legal pad, and setting up the PC in the corner of the third bedroom as the home base of a new advocacy and fundraising organization? Lots, I’m guessing. […]
A coauthor of a new study on the struggle of nonprofits to recruit and retain talented employees — and the leadership crisis this could cause as the current generation of executives prepares to retire — and a New York University nonprofits scholar participated in a Washington Post online chat Monday. Albert Reusga, the coauthor and a vice […]
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