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Archive for March 2008

March 4th, 2008

Missing the Mission | Board Members Should Never Be Shocked — Shocked! — at What Their Organizations Are Doing

Take a look at the advisers and directors of the nonprofit Foundation for Defense of Democracies and you’ll notice a lot of names with a similar political bent: Steve Forbes. Newt Gingrich. Jeane Kirkpatrick. Bill Kristol. Gary Bauer. Richard Perle. Charles Krauthammer. Even FDD’s Democrats — Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller — are known for [...]

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March 3rd, 2008

How to … Have a Political Voice

Nonprofits must take extraordinary care when they step into the political arena. As has been seen recently, the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t mess around when there’s a question of whether churches and charities have crossed the line and become “directly or indirectly involved in campaigns of political candidates.” That said, nonprofits need not be completely [...]

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March 2nd, 2008

Notes, Follow-Ups, and Reminders | Leadership Succession, For-Profit Arrogance, Nonprofit Flaw, Hoops and the Big Easy, RSS

“No longer is the crisis of executive leadership turnover looming; it is already upon us.”
“[N]onprofit leaders … are fed up with the arrogance of the business community that they can ‘do it’ better and are willing to come down from on high to give their more inept colleagues in this pathetic little branch of the [...]

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