How many rights are Americans willing to forgo to feel safe? How are we to be safeguarded from mistakes or official abuse? The USA PATRIOT Act and PATRIOT-II are taking the answers out of our hands.
From New Hampshire, “With Love and Comfort”
Ellen Ahlgren never intended to launch a global phenomenon in community service learning. And thereby hangs the tale…
Departing? Arriving? Surviving and Thriving: Lessons for Seasoned and New Executives
In practical guidance for executive directors, Adams clarifies responsibilities and expectations as they approach their own transition—which is a unique opportunity for significant changes in an organization’s focus and capacity.
Spinning Straw into Gold
A glimpse into the way five organizations are weathering the current stormy funding environment and gaining a bit of strategy. Stay tuned: we’ll check in six months hence and see how they’re doing.
Welcome | Winter 2002
Welcome to the Winter 2002 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly. It’s Christmas week and we’re racing our press deadline to get this issue to you by the New Year. For most of us, 2002 has been a time of immense challenge and substantial adjustment; 2003 promises more of the same. Appropriately, this issue is built
Living the Soaps: Recognizing the Subjective Factor in Executive Succession
So, who shot J.R.? And why did we care? Ted Ford Webb contends that internal politics and personalities shape most organizations—like subplots of long-running soaps—especially at the point of selecting new leadership.
Stepping Up: A Board’s Challenge in Leadership Transition
Tim Wolfred is adamant that since transition planning is ultimately a board responsibility, the involvement of the outgoing executive may be open to question. So what’s a board to do?
Executive Leadership Transition: What We Know
An ancient proverb says, “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” Tracing the 20-year history of field research in leadership change in nonprofit organizations, the authors note that mission, capacity, and diversity are intimately and inextricably bound with how an organization manages its executive succession. And, if we all use this wisdom…
The Resilient Sector: The State of Nonprofit America
Lester Salamon scans the environment of the past two decades affecting the organizational practices of the sector, noticing an inherent drive toward innovation and recreation. He also notes an irony and a challenge: balancing the growing culture of the market with our unique commitment to the common good.
Assistive Technology, Like “Curb Cuts” in Cyberspace
Meet Maia Scott, a partially sighted woman who needs a closed circuit television to read a book — and design brochures, edit Web copy, and facilitate communications for a San Fancisco-based nonprofit theater project. For people with disabilities, even the smallest technology enhancement can mean the difference between the ability to work or not.
Valuing Social Equity and Healthy Communities: Future Resources
In our interview with Gar Alperovitz, he cites the upward redistribution of the nation’s wealth, the growing conformity on both sides of the political aisle, and the inexorable “browning” of America as critical markers in the terrain of nonprofit advocacy for the next period.
What Nonprofit Wage Deficit?
“Nonprofit workers earn less than their counterparts in the for-profit sector.” Right? New data suggests that we might have to retire this hoary chestnut to examine the actually motion and influence of market forces.