Maine nonprofit fundraiser Alicia Nichols published a poignant piece in today’s Knox and Waldo Village S0up about turning her daughter on to the fulfillment of giving to nonprofits. Nichols writes about growing up as the child of parents who lived through the Great Depression, and how her father failed to understand, after she landed a […]
Big news, friends. I just found out that:
Nonprofit salaries are about to experience a 50 percent increase across the board.
Employees’ work hours will top out at 45 per week.
The sector’s mid-level managers later this year will undergo intense leadership training to groom them to take over their respective organizations.
There’s going to be a huge spike […]
Having brought the hammer down on Wall Street, Eliot Spitzer should have been well aware of the dangers of the for-profit sector. Yet when it came time to betray both his marriage and the people of New York State, the governor didn’t have the good sense to go the nonprofit route. Instead, he paid money […]
Kelly Phillips Erb at taxgirl responded to a meme about the upcoming federal rebates by tagging me, among other b5media bloggers, to answer a couple of questions:
If you could do whatever you wanted, how would YOU spend your $600?
Is that the same or different from how you actually plan spend it?
Hmm. How much would it […]
Web 2.0, social media, client relations management systems, interactive media, direct mail, e-mail blasts, viral marketing, and on and on and on.
The world demands ever-increasing velocity, and nonprofits are no exception. They’re working like hell — sometimes successfully, sometimes not — to keep up with the changing times and apply new strategies and tactics to […]
We’ve just entered the Chinese Year of the Rat, and if you think the filthy little plague-carriers are as far removed from nonprofits as quarterly dividends, think again.
In Chinese philosophy, the rodent’s ambition, strong will, and self-interest lead to an accumulation of wealth and power. Hey, development staffs, are you listening? Sounds like someone you […]
I have nothing against attractive women striking provocative poses while wearing bikinis — nothing at all — but for the Miss America Organization to try to maintain the relevance of its annual pageant by bathing it in a risque light strikes me as distasteful at best and harmful at worst. Miss Michigan won the crown […]
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 […]
One of the nonprofits I support monetarily is Philadelphia’s WXPN-FM, a noncommercial, listener-supported radio station out of the University of Pennsylvania. One of the country’s best stations, ‘XPN has the freedom to play a uniquely diverse collection of music, including work by artists who are far out of the mainstream yet deserve to be heard. […]
A poster at Ask Metafilter yesterday asked, “How do I choose between two equally worthy charities to receive my donation?” He actually had more than two charities to choose from in the area he had opted to support, animal-related organizations, and he added, “Ultimately, what I want is a method to help me identify a […]
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