Interesting and, I think, wise choice by the American Red Cross for its new CEO: A former for-profit marketing professional turned Harvard marketing professor who has a ton of experience raising money. Even better, it took the organization just five months to land Gail J. McGovern. Given the Red Cross’s financial troubles and leadership tumult, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Center for Companies That Care has released its 2008 honor roll, and a handful of nonprofits are sprinkled throughout the list. To make the honor roll, an organization must demonstrate 10 characteristics in its work environment:
Sustain a work environment founded on dignity and respect for all employees
Make employees feel their jobs are important
Cultivate the […]
For all of the talk about nonprofit accountability and professionalism, the sector’s largest segment, government, gets something of a free pass. We all gripe about government waste and sloth, with the depressing knowledge that nothing ever — ever — gets done about it. And then we turn to the sports page or the gossip column.
David […]
A coauthor of a new study on the struggle of nonprofits to recruit and retain talented employees — and the leadership crisis this could cause as the current generation of executives prepares to retire — and a New York University nonprofits scholar participated in a Washington Post online chat Monday. Albert Reusga, the coauthor and a vice […]
The last thing the American Red Cross needed was a personal scandal, but it’s got one now. One of the world’s most visible nonprofits yesterday sacked Mark Everson, its president and CEO, after just six months on the job not because of anything performance-related but because he was sleeping with an underling. As the Red […]
Buried in a contradictory* New York Times story yesterday on mergers among charities was a great nugget that reflects the uniqueness of nonprofits:
“Unlike mergers among corporations, which are normally negotiated among a few people who keep it quiet until all details are worked out, nonprofit mergers require any and all stakeholders — and there are […]
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