Welcome to our first e-newsletter! This month’s newsletter gives you a sneak preview of the upcoming July issue that explores the identity of the nonprofit sector, its relationship to business and government and the implications for realizing your mission. Click through to Paul Light’s article and let us know what you think makes the nonprofit
How Are You Measuring High Performance? (Jul 01)
We are receiving a tremendous response to the conversation started in last month’s e-newsletter on the theme of generating our own language to define performance rather than defaulting to business and government to do it for us. To add to that conversation the articles in this issue can assist you in developing a framework
How Are You Measuring High Performance? (Jul 01)
We are receiving a tremendous response to the conversation started in last month's e-newsletter on the theme of generating our own language to define performance rather than defaulting to business and government to do it for us. To add to that conversation the articles in this issue can assist you in developing a framework for
Gifts For You This Fundraising Season (Aug 01)
Here’s a gift for you as we go into fundraising season. How many times in the past few years have you been informed of donors’ increasing and overwhelming interest in efficiency? We here at the Nonprofit Quarterly live to debunk such pap. Personally, I know quite a few individual donors and foundation officers — and
Gifts For You This Fundraising Season (Aug 01)
Here’s a gift for you as we go into fundraising season. How many times in the past few years have you been informed of donors’ increasing and overwhelming interest in efficiency? We here at the Nonprofit Quarterly live to debunk such pap. Personally, I know quite a few individual donors and foundation officers — and
Collaboration and Philanthropy – Creating Civility
I want to acknowledge the tragic and surreal events of the past week — we are all shaken. These are no ordinary times and it is hardly business as usual. At the Nonprofit Quarterly we are working on a thoughtful response to the reality we are now living. The October issue of the magazine with
Post September 11 – Vision and Practice (Oct 01)
In the aftermath of September 11, we struggle to make meaning and move on with a life affirming response. The challenge of creating healthy, compassionate, sustainable communities has never been clearer or more urgent. Yet, the truth of our common humanity is everywhere — witness the compassionate outpouring of strangers reaching out to each other
Post September 11 – Vision and Practice (Oct 01)
In the aftermath of September 11, we struggle to make meaning and move on with a life affirming response. The challenge of creating healthy, compassionate, sustainable communities has never been clearer or more urgent. Yet, the truth of our common humanity is everywhere — witness the compassionate outpouring of strangers reaching out to each other
Want to Improve Media Coverage of Your Issue? (Nov 01)
In this economic recession and post September 11 era that is marked by budget shortfalls and shifting priorities, a critical question nonprofits are grappling with is "How are resources going to be allocated?" The role of the media in answering this question must not be ignored. Media educates and influences public opinion, which then influences
The Emergence of Youth Inclusion in the Nonprofit Sector (Dec 01)
If you, like the rest of us worry about leadership succession — and, more generally, about the need to bring critically thinking young people into the core of our work — you will not want to miss this next issue! When we first talked about doing an issue on youth development, I wondered —
The Emergence of Youth Inclusion in the Nonprofit Sector (Dec 01)
If you, like the rest of us worry about leadership succession — and, more generally, about the need to bring critically thinking young people into the core of our work — you will not want to miss this next issue! When we first talked about doing an issue on youth development, I wondered —
Cause-related Marketing (Mar 02)
It is March already and the crocuses are blooming here. To our friends in Minnesota — we sympathize with the six degree below zero run of weather you have had. To our friends in Hawaii — we know island living isn’t really paradise but our vantage point during a cool February makes it seem like