In its new study, Women Matter 2010, McKinsey & Company established the link between the presence of women in leadership and better financial results. READ»
Celebrity names make headlines when their charities are being investigated. It doesn't matter whether or not the celebrity has a full heart and means well. And once a charity or donor is questioned, the doubt lingers long after, even ...READ»
“A billion people endure and suffer the irreversible effects of hunger and malnutrition,” Navyn Salem told me. Salem is the Founder and Executive Director of Edesia, a new nonprofit manufacturing company that produces life-saving ...READ»
In today’s marketplace, employers have their choice of qualified job candidates. I recommend your hiring with a strong bias towards people with volunteer experience. What makes them better qualified to work at your ...READ»
Food has many uses in board meetings. No, erase the image of Bluto from the movie “Animal House” if that’s what popped into your mind. I am not referring to throwing food.What I’m referring to are the positive ...READ»
UpMo (for upward mobility), recently featured here, is an online service that promises to help you accelerate your career success. As a lifetime volunteer, and a matchmaker for business volunteers and nonprofit boards, ...READ»
“Definitely consider making the transition from the for-profit to the nonprofit sector. Your skills are transferable, and it definitely feels good to do good. But don't assume that it is exactly the same; social impact is a lot ...READ»
Your inbox overflows with appeals for contributions, invitations to galas, and volunteer projects. In addition, if you are a business executive or professional with strategic expertise and some financial success, there ...READ»
Last November, I listed 5 factors that board candidates consider in choosing a nonprofit board. In having trained and placed hundreds of business executives and professionals on nonprofit boards, and also having trained and mentored ...READ»
Nearly 20 years old, Teach For America (TFA) has prepared a force of 14,000 TFA alumni “to create massive and systemic changes to solve the inequities in education for students in low-income communities,” according ...READ»
“Why are people going to come here and not the other place,” was the question that haunted Michael F. Curtin, Jr., Chief Executive Officer of DC Central Kitchen when he used to run a restaurant. The same ...READ»
Jane Lang had a vision to rehab a decrepit site in Washington, D.C. that is now home to a diverse group of 13 nonprofit performing arts organizations that share offices as well as practice, performance, production, and lobby spaces. ...READ»
“Our partners are developing as leaders while helping nonprofits to achieve greater results,” said Craig Medwick, Regional Managing Partner for Clifford Chance in the Americas. “Our attorneys are making serious, thoughtful ...READ»
Design partners John Nottingham and John Spirk thought so. Saving a beautiful old church and rehabbing it as a den of creativity, Nottingham and Spirk catalyzed community revitalization in a moribund neighborhood of Cleveland, ...READ»
After a client complained that sales of their regional juice products were lagging because of poor placement in the back coolers of retail stores, John Nottingham and his product design group at Nottingham-Spirk Design set about ...READ»
In today’s economy, engagement is the name of the game for corporate philanthropy. When a plethora of good causes is pounding down the doors for dollars, how does a corporate foundation decide where to give for the greatest ...READ»
Leading the way for the next generation of leaders is President-elect Barack Obama, who has described his formative work experience as a community organizer in Chicago’s South Side in 1985, when he was 23 years old. ...READ»
For-profit and nonprofit boards and their CEOs must create more ambitious and successful enterprises by recruiting board members from more diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Individuals who are accomplished and come from a variety ...READ»
Despite conventional wisdom that draws sharp lines between for-profit and nonprofit boards, I believe that they are fundamentally the same. Both for-profit and nonprofit boards have ownership responsibilities for their ...READ»
For-profit boards of directors bear much responsibility for the past year’s financial catastrophes. Nonprofit boards are accountable for global and regional organizations that need to address vital matters relating to the ...READ»
