This reader comment on a New York Times article about electric cars caught my attention: “Just get NASCAR to change its rules to only allow electric powered cars to race and see how quickly the technology becomes not only affordable, but mainstream as well…†WAKE-UP CALL: The thought highlights the need for nonprofits to think beyond their […]
Amidst all the recent financial gloom and doom, I thought it’s worthwhile to report a blip of good news on the fundraising front and relate the lessons that can be learned from it. The New York Times reported today that its Neediest Cases Fund has increased its contributions significantly over last year. The number of […]
This entry is in response to an op ed piece by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times on December 24, 2008: The Sin in Doing Good Deeds. Easing our insistence on low overhead ratios for charities, will help them to co-opt the profit motive. One reason that nonprofits are not as effective with […]
This entry is in response to an op ed piece by Nicholas D. Kristof in The New York Times on December 24, 2008: The Sin in Doing Good Deeds A new concept in business is the Triple Bottom Line: Profit, People, and the Planet. By paying attention to all of these elements, we create more […]
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:
How do nonprofit organizations address long sponsor names in their programs? As more nonprofits turn toward individual and corporate donors, they face the issue of how to acknowledge these contributors often in contexts that do not easily accommodate long naming formats. Red Rooster Group recently worked with a nonprofit organization that had multiple tiers of […]
I recently received an email that reinforced the importance of having a strong name for your nonprofit organization. Envirolution, a website leading the revolution for environmental jobs, was launching their latest project: The Win-Win Campaign — a youth-led small business energy and carbon efficiency campaign.The name Win-Win Campaign name made me grin — how can you go […]