The "Career Couch" column in yesterday’s New York Times Business section offered a Q&A for for-profit employees considering a switch to the nonprofit sector. There was some terrific advice in there, which I’m adapting here and to which I’m adding my thoughts as well as a suggestion of my own:
Be clear about your motivations. Working […]
Nonprofit hospitals are enjoying very healthy bottom lines, and lawmakers are taking note.
Riding gains from investment portfolios and enjoying the pricing power that came from a decade of mergers, many nonprofit hospitals have seen earnings soar in recent years. The combined net income of the 50 largest nonprofit hospitals jumped nearly eight-fold to $4.27 billion […]
A guide to watching the watchdogs.
Oklahoma seeks to join the nonprofit transparency parade.
More bad news about nonprofits and ethics.
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Shaky financial markets and an economy bordering on recession. Are we having fun yet, businesspeople? This week’s b5media Business Channel blog of the week brings some much-needed jocularity to the and other Serious Topics. Biz Levity, whose tagline, "We Give Business the Business," is surely among the blogosphere’s best, is a lot of fun to […]
As if dealing with a wobbly economy weren’t bad enough, nonprofits are having to figure out a way to pay for rising energy costs.
Most have been able to absorb the increase, but the bigger concern is whether energy costs will continue to rise sharply in the future. …
Theatre Harrisburg’s natural gas costs also have crept […]
One of the things I love about the nonprofit sector is its plethora of groups large and small dedicated to little more than providing mutual support among their respective members and raising awareness of the common activities in which they partake. Take, for example, poets. As an English major I certainly studied my share of […]
As the Nonprofiteer demonstrated Tuesday, one person’s ethics can be another person’s unwanted obligations. Houston Chronicle business columnist Shannon Buggs wrote last week about a set of principles recommended by a panel convened by Independent Sector, a coalition of charities, foundations, and corporate giving programs, regarding "ethical conduct, accountability, and transparency." Six of the 33 […]
Later this month — on the 24th, to be exact — moms and dads across the country will let their kids cut school for a great cause: the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
As someone who’s still, after nearly 20 years of full-time work, trying to figure out what he wants to […]
Certain nonprofits, observed Bridgette Rongitsch, have done a good job educating voters about the issues they deal with and motivating them to make their voices heard on Election Day. She cited environmental, choice, and GLBT groups as being proficient in this area.
Nonprofits working in the service sector, though, helping people with housing, low income and […]
At its annual meeting in San Diego, the Association of Fundraising Professionals today released troubling survey results:
More than half of nonprofit executives say they have observed unethical fund-raising behavior … . The most common concern raised by executives: use of percentage-based compensation to pay fund raisers.
To its credit, AFP has campaigned loudly against commission-based fundraising, […]
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