NY Governor Paterson admitted tough times for nonprofits, but pledged his support for the sector, while addressing the Not-For-Profit Leadership Summit on May 11, 2009 in Westchester. Here are some notes and highlights from his talk.
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 essential to any nonprofit’s continued success, no matter what stage it’s in (Idea/Startup, Growth/Maturity, Turnaround/Terminal Phases). They first discussed criteria for board development and gave specific advice […]
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. Volunteering was positioned as a good way to spend time between jobs: contributing to society, moving outside of your comfort zone, […]
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 Up Matters! Conference produced by VCG boardnet/USA on Wednesday, April 22, 2009.
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 […]
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 otherwise contributed to their campaigns, in violation of the law. Neither party seemed to care or take responsibility, pushing off oversight to the IRS. The article acknowledged […]
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 the developing world.