Attention, development directors: Your corporate partners may not have as much scratch to donate these days as in more robust years past, but that doesn’t mean they can’t help you. The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating piece on the increasing use of another type of resource — the human kind — by for-profit firms […]
Just when I thought that the struggling economy couldn’t possibly be blamed for any other nonprofit troubles comes word that it’s having an effect on board recruiting. Crain’s New York Business reported recently that because trustees and directors are expected both to give and to help with fundraising, they are in extremely high demand among […]
Writing yesterday in the Tallahassee Democrat, Kelly Otte, the executive director of United Partners for Human Services, strongly advised nonprofit employees and board members to take proactive steps to manage stress and avoid burnout. Otte’s counsel was generally sound:
Keep reminding yourself that your job is not your entire life. … You won’t be able to […]
Oprah’s hopelessly misguided take on giving. | Chronicle of Philanthropy
The underwhelming fundraising conference circuit, and some suggestions for reform. | NonProfit Times, Donor Power Blog
Do nonprofits do enough to vet their volunteers? | National Center for Victims of Crime
Can the nonprofit sector define a universal data model when it comes to customer relationship management? | […]
National Volunteer Week begins Monday, and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, USA Freedom Corps, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington will gather in D.C. for a photo op and kick-off event. As is customary, organizers have gathered some star power to add […]
The business world is different for women than it is for men, regardless of the sector you work in. b5 Business Channel blog of the week Biz Chicks Rule chronicles those differences and celebrates and supports the many successes of women in business. Kristen King and Bridget Wright write with flair and humor, and as […]
As noted a couple of days ago, this is National Small Business Week, and while the federal Small Business Administration hogs all of the attention, there is, yes, a nonprofit that helps the country’s thousands of entrepreneurs make their case to Washington and the various state capitals. The National Small Business Association was launched in […]
The folks who work at Harvard University, you’d think, are pretty smart cookies, so they had to have seen this one coming: The seven-boxes of material sold to the university by Norman Mailer’s former mistress, Carole Mallory, "includes photos, transcripts of interviews with Mailer, handwritten edits of Mallory’s work and scraps from writing lessons he […]
The mess at Antioch College got the New York Times treatment last weekend, with the paper’s intellectual life writer, Patricia Cohen, presenting a comprehensive overview of the current atmosphere on campus in the Education Life supplement. Most of Cohen’s piece focused on what students and faculty are going through in the face of the college’s […]
The good: Corporate foundation giving was up more than 6.5 percent in 2007, to approximately $4.4 billion, according to a new summary report from the Foundation Center. The report also notes that:
Adjusted for inflation, such giving has nearly doubled since 1990.
Education was the top priority of corporate foundations across regions, comprising about a quarter of […]
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