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Minnesota Orchestra Dispute: Excellent Lessons to be Drawn for Orchestras and...
As the Minnesota Orchestra continues to pick up the pieces after a contentious, 16-month standoff between management and musicians, one inside expert offers a long list of observations on the lessons...
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When Funds Go Missing, What Can You Do? What Must You Do?
So what should a board do once it suspects or has discovered evidence of embezzlement?
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Another Nonprofit News Website Gets Its Wings (Read, “Nonprofit Status”)
Carolina Public Press received nonprofit status from the IRS, continuing an accelerating national trend.
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Rural Hospitals’ Service to Poor Challenged by Costs and Policies
Access to healthcare in rural areas is challenged by several factors: a declining number of rural hospitals due to financial challenges in Medicare and Medicaid, a limited number of doctors willing to...
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All Enterprise Is Social: Measuring the Impact of Endeavors across the Profit...
There is exciting, innovative activity at the intersection of investment and philanthropy, but, the author maintains, the innovations are constrained by old-fashioned thinking.
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“Social Enterprise” Tackling Energy Poverty Should Acknowledge Gov’t Support
Even in social enterprise, the successes of some important ventures, such as the clean energy programs of Off Grid Electric in Tanzania and Mera Gao Power in India, are due not just to the profit...
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Creditors Would Remove Detroit Institute of Arts’ Collection Piece by Piece
The Detroit Institute of Arts has asked a federal bankruptcy judge to block creditors from physically removing thousands of works from the museum’s walls to determine their value in the city’s Chapter...
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“Profound Suffering in the Workplace” Results in Dismissal of Museum CEO
The CEO of the newly expanded but not yet open Picasso Museum in Paris has been dismissed—not for her management of the reopening, but for creating “profound suffering in the workplace.”
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Social Enterprises for Entrepreneurial Veterans in UK and US
It’s great to see self-styled “social enterprises” assisting veterans in creating businesses, but don’t forget that nonprofits have been at that game for many years, and some, particularly IVMF at...
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New (and Only) Accelerator for Tech-based Nonprofits Announces its First Class
A new start-up accelerator in San Francisco will focus solely on nonprofit-based technology enterprises.
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Should Nonprofits Publish Wage Ratios?
In the UK, the National Council of Voluntary Organizations is recommending that all charities publish salary ratios—that is, the relationship between the highest and lowest salaries.
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All Enterprise Is Social!
Have we in the nonprofit sector—those who care about injustice and inequality—been fiddling while Rome burns? Not exactly, but there is much more that we can do and be in this sector if we break out of...
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Social Impact Bonds: Healthy Dialogue on a Young Sector
What is the real “impact” of social impact bonds? A point/counterpoint.
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Former Defense Sec. Bob Gates and the Boy Scouts: Do the Right Thing!
Gates has decided he will not fight the battle on gay scout leaders at the BSA, but does he have a choice?
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What Funders Want: Nonprofits that Need Their Support…But Not Exclusively
A nonprofit that serves deaf and hard-of-hearing children in New York State had to learn a tough lesson about relying too heavily on contributed income. Three years after flirting with failure, the...
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Are Nonprofits the Future of Work? Rifkin’s New Book Promotes a...
Jeremy Rifkin’s new book asserts that increased productivity coupled with advances in digital technology will fundamentally change the shape of labor in society, requiring the economy to shift...
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Sociocracy: An Organizational Structure for Distributed Leadership
What kinds of employees do we really want in the nonprofit sector? With all our talk of a need for “leaderful organizations,” there are fewer discussions of what that really requires, though there is...
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Nonprofits: Is Competition Killing Your Creativity?
How should stakeholders and market position be addressed differently in this new operating environment?
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Planning for Any Future that Could Come Along
As Samuel Beckett put it, “Everything will turn out all right—unless something unforeseen crops up.” That’s why fundraisers need to be ready for any contingencies that might arise. Simone Joyaux shares...
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Poe’s House/Museum on Amity Street Refuses to Die
In a deal between the city and a newly formed nonprofit, Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore is once again open for the public, despite having looked its demise in the face more than once!
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