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 reported on local businesses who claimed to be losing sales due to a bike lane being installed on Eighth Avenue supplanting […]

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 of nonprofits that achieve large-scale results. Their key findings:

On October 24, 2008, the Columbia School of Business held a conference titled “The Moment of Now: Market Innovations in Social Enterprise” to explore themes in the emerging sector of social enterprise. In this session on Cultivating Effective NGO-Business Partnerships, Gordon Peterson (second from left),  VP of Corporate Social Responsibility for The Timberland Company, squared […]

Like all small business owners, juggling many balls often doesn’t leave time for the long-range planning necessary to grow the business. Going it alone, I longed for feedback from peers facing the same challenges. I found the answer to these two concerns in a peer mentoring group presided over by the aptly-named Ed Abel, president […]

The Nonprofit Resource Group meets monthly to foster connections between nonprofit consultants and to help each other grow our businesses. At the last meeting, Interim CEO Consultant, John Corwin, gave advice on how to create an giving and receiving referrals. Addressing the natural apprehension to call some one, he provided with these seven reasons people will […]