Four is Not Enough
Last week I got a call from a reporter from another part of the country asking for help. The reporter, whose normal beat is science and medicine, was stuck looking at a 990. And while she had gotten a lot of good information from the form, she wanted me to look at to see what I thought, see if she was on the right track, etc. One of the first things that easily caught my attention was the list of board members. Read more
July 2nd, 2009 2 Comments Ask Not What Your Nonprofit Can Do For You
Though President Obama (that feels so good to say and write!) wasn’t specifically addressing members of nonprofit boards of directors in his inaugural speech, I hope they were listening. “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works …. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. Those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account — to spend Read more
January 23rd, 2009 0 Comment The road not taken?
For the record, this will be the last blog post for 2008. The Nonprofit Center and I are taking a two week vacation to relax, re-energize, and come back afresh. Rather than end the year being all philosophical and pollyannaish, I thought I’d try being practical and positive. The hard reality is that many people are going to be looking for jobs in the new year. (And why, when the economy is already running roughshod over us, do we have to have scoundrels like Read more
December 18th, 2008 1 Comment 