April 11th, 2008
Talk about ambitious. Greg McHale thinks he’s found a win-win-win-win way for:
Nonprofits to reach greater numbers of donors, volunteers, and event participants
People to discover new ways to contribute to the causes they believe in
Media companies to earn more advertising revenue
Corporations to increase the visibility of their giving programs
McHale is the founder and CEO of good2gether, […]
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April 7th, 2008
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 […]
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March 28th, 2008
Cynics that we are, we expect people in business to look out only for themselves, and we are not surprised at revelations of misconduct by government officials.
Nonprofits appear well on their way to joining that dubious list. And they have only themselves to blame, according to troubling results contained in the just-released National Nonprofits Ethics […]
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March 22nd, 2008
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 […]
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March 20th, 2008
"You are changing the world," notes Google on the home page of its new nonprofit portal. "We want to help."
I have to confess that initially I felt a touch of cynicism about the move. Most Google applications are already free, after all, so offering them for free to nonprofits hardly seems like the company is […]
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March 8th, 2008
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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March 2nd, 2008
“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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February 28th, 2008
Calling it “A Capitalist Jolt for Charity,” the New York Times breathlessly told the story on the front page of its Sunday Business section of a pair of married philanthropists who took the nonprofit they were supporting and transformed it into a for-profit venture because, shock of shocks, what they were funding was costing them […]
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February 26th, 2008
The older I’ve gotten, the more libertarian I’ve become. In general, people should be able to do what they want, I believe, especially in their personal lives, as long they’re not misled about the risks involved and as long as their behavior doesn’t harm others. Gambling, for example, I’m fine with: I play poker every […]
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February 26th, 2008
“Operational excellence.” “Revenue streams.” “Differentiation.” “Cross-selling.” “Quantitative and qualitative research.”
Having learned well from their for-profit brethren, nonprofits now have much to teach, according to a Boston Symphony Orchestra official and a communications consultant. Writing in the current issue of Forbes, Mark Volpe and Roger Sametz argue persuasively a point I’ve been making since starting this […]
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