Who do you Trust?
Election season is looming and I’m thinking about ethics (why would that be?)
Trust: a simple word, but a complex phenomenon and not easy to win and maintain. Yet I am reminded on an almost daily basis how much nonprofits take it—yes, the very lifeblood of their organizations–for granted. I am amazed at how easily they trifle with it, ignore it, presume its steadfastness while doing things that blatantly dare others to challenge it and then open the doors wide so that it is so easy Read more
The Real World
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There is a parallel, of which I am all too frequently reminded, between working in the nonprofit sector and being an early feminist of the second half of the 20th century: just when you think you are making progress, something smacks you in the face and says, “Hah! Gotcha, dummie!” Recently, I got a double whammy of both. Michelle Nunn is the Democratic nominee for the US Senate seat from Georgia, and the on-leave CEO of Points of Light, an almost $30 million Read more
