You’ve had a couple of days to mull over the first four principles of nonprofit sustainability ala an article in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of The Nonprofit Quarterly. (If you missed the post to which I’m referring, you can find it here.) Now it’s on to another set of pointers for heading your organization in [...]
Beyond subsistence: 8 basic business principles for nonprofit sustainability (Part 2)
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360 degrees of misery
September 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A few posts back, I wrote about potential pitfalls in CEO evaluation, drawing upon advice I give to boards of theological schools. I stressed the importance of doing no harm – a caution that is reinforced in a recent issue of The Nonprofit Quarterly. Specifically, NQ takes on the ever popular, but potentially lethal 360° [...]
Generosity in quotes
August 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As students stream on to college campuses across North America, consider the following advice. “Today’s young adults are increasingly looking for ‘tribes that make a difference’ — they want something more than just to belong to a ‘happy gang.’ The challenge for nonprofit organizations is to trust these young people to take the opportunities and [...]
