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I attended the Organizational Health and Nonprofit Lifecycle seminar, held by Don Crocker and John Brother at the Support Center for Nonprofit Management. Understanding the life cycle is [...]

Nonprofits and volunteering are in the news again. CNN online featured a story about a man who was laid off from his Wall Street job and decided to volunteer to work with baboons in Africa. [...]

How can nonprofits address the fiscal crisis, build effective boards and be proactive? Bob Edgar, President and CEO of Common Cause answered these questions to nonprofit audience at the Stepping [...]

As a cyclist who has been enjoying the recent additions of bike lanes in New York City, an article on the cover recent article in Chelsea Now, a neighborhood newspaper, caught my attention. It [...]

A recent article in The New York Times, Charities Give to State Campaigns, Despite Law, described how some nonprofits had purchased tickets to fundraising dinners for elected officials, or had [...]

In the recent issue of Good magazine, Iqbal Quadir, the founder of Grameenphone, and Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child, debate the merits of these specific technologies in [...]

This reader comment on a New York Times article about electric cars caught my attention: “Just get NASCAR to change its rules to only allow electric powered cars to race and see how quickly the [...]

Amidst all the recent financial gloom and doom, I thought it’s worthwhile to report a blip of good news on the fundraising front and relate the lessons that can be learned from it. The New [...]

This entry is in response to an op ed piece by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times on December 24, 2008: The Sin in Doing Good Deeds. Easing our insistence on low overhead ratios for [...]

This entry is in response to an op ed piece by Nicholas D. Kristof in The New York Times on December 24, 2008: The Sin in Doing Good Deeds A new concept in business is the Triple Bottom Line: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]