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Nonprofit Newswire | Cutting Back: A Personal Account

Ruth McCambridge
April 30, 2010

April 29, 2010; Source: Jewish Exponent | I think it helps to share stories like the one linked to above about the personal experiences and recollections of a nonprofit CEO who was forced to cut staff in an attempt to recast his organization to fit the new economic landscape. It can be excruciating. Sometimes it takes the act of leaving to actually go ahead and give voice to the worry and pain that accompanies these kinds of decisions.—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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