Although Boomers are Boomers and Millennials are Millennials, a good chunk of both demographics are employees of nonprofit organizations. What do Boomers and Millennials bring to the nonprofit sector in terms of their college education backgrounds, and does it matter at all?
Boomers Bring Liberal Arts, Millennials Bring IT and Business to Nonprofits
In a consent decree entered on Tuesday, the IRS has agreed to pay $50,000 in actual damages to the National Organization for Marriage.
A nursing home worker is fired after “venting” on Facebook that he would like not only to neglect, but abuse patients. Is that grounds for termination?
The now elected, formerly military government of Egypt just topped its mass death sentences for hundreds of protesters with verdicts sentencing three Al Jazeera journalists to prison terms between seven and ten years. Even though Al Jazeera is hardly a nonprofit, this judicial travesty, abetted by the Obama administration’s announcement that it will resume military aid to Egypt, should be condemned by nonprofits worldwide.
The almost-fifty-year-old Child Development, Inc. serves primarily low-income children in a part of Madison, Wisconsin considered a “daycare desert,” so one can imagine it is a resource desperately needed by parents in the area. The center once had a stellar reputation, but it has had a rough few years.
Eat Greater Des Moines hosted its first speed dating event this week, but those looking to be hooked up were food growers and chefs.
Baby boomers are retiring faster and earlier from state government than ever before, for reasons good and bad. The “Silver Tsunami” of baby boomer retirements doesn’t lead to all positive results, even as it makes room for millennials—in the public sector and in nonprofits.
Hospital food systems focus their purchasing power to buy organic, local and sustainable food for their cafeterias, benefitting patients, local farmers and the environment.
When the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum reopens this December, visitors will have every opportunity to immerse themselves not only in history and artifacts, but also in the design experience. Innovative technology—developed through a collaborative industrial design process—is at the heart of the newly reimagined museum.
When considering becoming the successor to a long-term executive, it is wise to examine carefully whether or not the board and the organization are really ready for you as a leader. Do your homework and take it slow.
Conservative columnist George Will is at the epicenter of a national debate about sexual assault on college campuses, which his recent column in the Washington Post suggested was overblown and used by progressives as part of some sort of PC campaign. At Bob Jones University, the religious South Carolina school, victims of sexual assault are counseled to blame themselves and repent for the sinful things they did in their lives to have caused themselves to be raped.