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 […]

After the three-day Nonprofit Congress in May, the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA), which produced the Nonprofit Congress, organized a lobbying day to create awareness about the nonprofit sector. The New York delegation was one of many that went to Capitol Hill to lobby our Representatives and Senators about the National Capacity Building Initiative (put forth by NCNA). […]

Keynote speaker to Association of Fundraising Professionals Fundraising Day NY 2008 conference, Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez, Secretary of State for NYS, shares her insights and inspirations to the nonprofit sector. I liked her quote encouraging nonprofit leaders to think like business people: “I is not for profit, but I is not for loss.” WAKE UP CALL: To […]

AIGA’s Smart Models Conference Provides Lessons for Nonprofits Drew Hodges from Spot Design opens the AIGA conference on Smart Business Models by describing how his agency transformed from a design studio creating a posters for Broadway shows, most notably, RENT, into an ad agency to capture the  hundreds of thousands of dollars in media commissions. […]

At the National Nonprofit Congress, Doug Sauer, Jon Pratt, Joan Austin discuss how to help nonprofit organizations, specifically those providing social services, to implement best practices.

The opening session of the National Nonpofit Congress held in June in Washington, DC, kicked off three days of conference sessions bringing together the best ideas to promote the public sector. Karrie Galloway, the Director of Friends of Guest House, shares the joys and challenges of helping recovering addicts to acclimate to society. Former heroine […]

  A good name gives a nonprofit a running start. It can help distinguish your group from others doing similar work and inspire people around your mission. Here are several different types of organizational names.