Is Public Service Indentured Servitude?
Last week, Harvard Law School announced that it would start paying the tuition of third year law students who promised to work in government or for nonprofits for five years post graduation. Apparently Harvard heard that the nonprofit sector isn’t attracting folks like it once did, and surmised that graduating with only $82,000 in debt (as opposed to more than $123,000, which would be the current cost of paying for all three years of law school) might make it easier for those inclined to public Read more
March 28th, 2008 0 Comment The Pink Collar Ghetto Lives! Social Responsibility Part II
One of the joys of blogging is that there doesn’t have to be continuity post to post. I, however, have to continue this theme from my last posting.
This question of the extent to which nonprofits should be socially responsible not just through the charitable work that our organizations do but in how we execute that work continue to pound away at me. What I am about to report is no new disparity—and that is what makes it worse: we’ve known about it forever, or so it Read more
February 14th, 2008 0 Comment 