In their book, Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather MacLeod Grant describe the key practices they uncovered in studying a cross section [...]
The population is aging at a rate faster than anyone had anticipated. In less than three decades from now, the number of people globally under the ages of five years and those above the age of 65 [...]
Lessons in Measuring the Success of Drug Rehabilitation Programs The trend toward accountability in the nonprofit sector and the resulting need for performance evaluation is a problem facing the [...]
How do nonprofit organizations address long sponsor names in their programs? As more nonprofits turn toward individual and corporate donors, they face the issue of how to acknowledge these [...]
NEWS FROM GRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS Most foundations are not making changes they and their grantees say are essential to supporting nonprofit success, but there is evidence of a [...]
I recently received an email that reinforced the importance of having a strong name for your nonprofit organization. Envirolution, a website leading the revolution for environmental jobs, was [...]
A December 15 recent radio broadcast on NPR highlighted the gap in how this country provides a social net for the poor. The “Hunger in America,” episode of On Point, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, [...]
This large upside-down image of the Mona Lisa holds some surprises. Modern viewers will have no trouble recognizing the iconic image, though pixelated as it is. We have been accustomed to seeing [...]
One artist addressed this issue at the Second Lives exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan, which runs through April 19, 2009. In a commentary on what language means today, the [...]
As the member of a grant allocations committee of a nonprofit, I was tasked with rating each grant application on a score card that posed the following questions:
Scope of Services Red Rooster Inc. agrees to provide all the services described above within the criteria specified. If, however, the Client changes any of the criteria during the project that [...]
Why don’t nonprofits value intellectual capital, particularly marketing expertise, when it can prove crucial to the success of their cause? I encountered that question when I learned about [...]
