Are you connecting with your "wired wealthy"? Probably not.
The power of e-mail to reach your publics.
Tips on keeping your board’s head in the game.
Should the sector call itself something different?
Harvard Law took a good first step. More is needed.
It’s wicked easy to subscribe to 501(c) Files feeds: Just click here and follow the simple instructions. […]
Nonprofit and public interest lawyers aren’t the only badly needed professionals who leave school struggling under a large debt load and facing insufficient salaries to ease the burden. Physicians who graduate med school and want to enter general practice or primary care find that salaries leg behind those of such high-profile specialties as plastic surgery […]
One Laptop Per Child, the nonprofit that sees its inexpensive XO notebook as a tool to spur education in developing countries, is having trouble getting out of its own way. In the same week OLPC won the Brit Insurance Design Award, it was revealed that the organization lost its well-regarded director of security architecture, who […]
Lots of nonprofits need lawyers — to lobby legislators, to litigate matters the organization is advocating, and so on.
Lawyers leave law school with the considerable burden of student loans to shoulder.
Nonprofits are being criticized by observers — including their own employees — for paying salaries that are unfairly low.
Uh-oh.
A potential solution comes from Harvard Law […]
The incoming president of the Smithsonian Institution said all the right things after being named its new chief executive over the weekend. The Smithsonian has been tarnished by financial malfeasance committed by its previous secretary, and when Georgia Tech president G. Wayne Clough was tapped by the Institution’s Board of Regents Friday night, he directly […]
For nonprofits that open their doors to the public and count on ticket purchases for a chunk of their revenue, there’s the finest of lines between savvy marketing and selling out. Last week the Philadelphia Inquirer presented a fascinating case study, writing about the efforts of the city’s venerable Franklin Institute, one of the country’s […]
Today is March 14.
Or, 3/14.
Or, 3.14
Recognize that last number? It’s the first three digits of pi, 22 divided by 7, that magical equation that marks the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
The Exploratorium, the nifty San Francisco science museum, has been celebrating Pi Day for a decade now, and today will offer exhibits, […]
Sunday’s Washington Post ran a paint-by-numbers story about a presentation by a migrant worker to 7th through 12th graders at a private school in Annapolis. The presentation was “part of the Key School’s in-depth study of migrant farm laborers,” said the story, which is pretty standard stuff — until you consider that the school took […]
U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes, a Democrat from Maryland, reminds readers of the Washington Post in a letter to the editor that he wrote legislation last year aimed at giving young nonprofit employees a break on their college loans:
Last fall, Congress enacted the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which makes college more affordable. Within […]
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, […]
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