Everybody’s got an idea for the transition except me and my monkey
Every day brings another idea for the new Administration–today, a group of ex-Secretaries of State and Defense suggested creating an office against genocide in the White House, certainly a creditable...
View ArticleOn the care and feeding of high-skill volunteers
The Nonprofiteer is preparing her April 6 presentation at Chicago’s Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management, the euphoniously-titled “They’re Not a Frill if You’re Using Them Right: How to Save Money...
View ArticleMaking the most of high-skill volunteers: initial thoughts
What are high-skill volunteers good for? None of us sits in our strategic planning sessions and says, we want to stuff more envelopes, but that’s what we give our volunteers to do–instead of using them...
View ArticleAll about venues
The Nonprofiteer was talking to a friend who had just scored an amazing venue for the fundraiser of which she is chair: a church close to all forms of public transportation and parking, with a youth...
View ArticleSocial Enterprise and Its Discontents
A new study—poignantly titled “Social Enterprise: Innovation or Mission Distraction?”—reports that nonprofit agencies which choose to support themselves with for-profit businesses end up serving their...
View ArticleHoliday music to the ears
H/t the indispensable Nonprofit Quarterly‘s Nonprofit Newswire: a congregation in Anchorage is running a “Mitzvah Mall,” at which what’s for sale is donations to nonprofits. A Festival of Light...
View ArticleFired up to volunteer
The Nonprofiteer first learned of the work of catchafire.org several months ago through our mutual colleagues at Mission Research. She’s been getting around to writing about Catchafire’s work placing...
View ArticleDoings at the Nonprofit Finance Fund
The indispensable Nonprofit Finance Fund has just begun its annual survey of the sector for 2011. The Fund’s slicing and dicing of the data will produce a thoughtful report on the state of the sector,...
View Article“L3C” spells “caveat emptor”
Here’s something strange: a concept thrown around routinely and casually in conversations among nonprofits and philanthropies is simultaneously the subject of fierce debate and sometime disapproval by...
View ArticleThe billionaire vs. the free riders
The Nonprofiteer’s readers might enjoy this account of a pissing match between Warren Buffett and Mitch McConnell. The Senator from Kentucky has been urging the Sage of Omaha to make voluntary...
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