Management expert Jim Collins, the author of the New York Times bestseller Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, spoke recently with Contribute editor Marcia Stepanek about his thoughts on what he calls the "social sector." A couple of years back Collins wrote a 36-page monograph applying the topics […]
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 […]
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 […]
As “the trusted philanthropic advisor to more than 1,600 individuals, families, and businesses who want to make a difference in the lives of others through charitable giving,” the Columbus Foundation, located in Ohio’s capital city, makes a pretty good case for its claim of being “your community foundation.” The foundation strengthened its case last week […]
Last week the b5 servers got all hinky on us, and posting to and reading the network’s blogs — including the 501(c) Files — was a sketchy proposition for a day or two. That got a lot of us here on the Business Channel thinking about crisis management. For nonprofits, I think, there are a […]
Hey, have you heard that the United States is in the midst of a presidential campaign? And you know what that means: In addition to epic pandering, lofty promises, and countless charges and countercharges, the airwaves are now filled to the rafters with commercials making all sorts of extraordinary claims. Sometimes they’re positive ads, with […]
The state government of Ohio is the latest to begin exploring whether nonprofits should be taxed. Unlike efforts in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and in Indiana, Ohio’s process is being driven by the executive branch, not the legislature, and it’s aimed at just one segment of the sector: hospitals.
Attorney General Marc Dann, a Democrat elected in […]
Sunday’s New York Times piggybacked on the recent announcement of Red Cross staff cuts with a commentary that laid the blame at the feet of donors, thanks to the huge increase in the practice of gift earmarking.
Relief organizations receive plenty of donations for a specific crisis, but can’t find the money to build wells to […]
Do foundations better support nonprofits by funding general operating expenses instead of specific projects, as a New York Times piece suggested last week? No way, responds a foundation executive in a letter to the Times yesterday:
… [O]ur supporters rightfully expect that their donations are directed to programs that our mission specifies. If we were to […]
There’s a great discussion happening over at Gift Hub about whether philanthropic leaders should blog. Blogger Phil Cubeta, a financial services exec who directs his company’s charitable efforts and who calls himself a “morals tutor to America’s wealthiest families,” offers 24 reasons, some of them serious, some of them not, against such public commentary, and […]
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