If creating a budget makes you feel like Dr. Frankenstein loosing a dangerous beast on unsuspecting villagers, it’s time to go back to basics.
Collaborative Funding of an Advocacy Organization
We’ve been plugging the idea of funders supporting nonprofits’ general operating budgets and advocacy efforts every chance we get—here’s an account of what happens when foundations roll up their sleeves and do it.
Nonprofit Results Software: Robust Tracking Power, Civil Liberties Concerns
A new writer joins our ranks to tell us about powerful new outcome-tracking software. We like providing advice, but as always, let the buyer beware.
Leaving a Memorial Unto the Children, Forever
To those who question the value of working for historical preservation of African American sites, Louretta Wimberly responds with another question: how will our children know who they are otherwise?
Who Wins in the Megagrants Game
Round and round the million-dollar grant goes, and where it stops, you can find out here. Who wins and who loses?
The Story Behind the Story: Why We Should be Wary of the Faith-Based Initiative
As our fearless leader pulls the country even further right than Reagan dared, we take a hard and timely look at planned measures to boost faith-based charity.
Collaboration or Competition in the National Nonprofit Infrastructure?
To what degree do national nonprofit infrastructure groups set a good collaborative example for the nonprofit sector?
Welcome: Please, Allow Us to Introduce Ourselves
Neither fish nor fowl–it’s time to stand and unfold ourselves.
“Nonprofit-like” Tongue Twister or Aspiration?
We are urged to generate our own language and knowledge to define higher performance.
Going Beyond Efficiency
Should we question the wisdom of evaluating program effectiveness on the basis of cost-savings, rather than program quality and responsiveness to need?
“I am the Brush”
Meet Gale Walker, former welfare mom, now a successful San Diego businesswoman whose idea of a worthy bottom-line is serving her community.
No Distinction Without Difference
Nonprofit enterprises are distinguished as much by what they stand for, as by the privilege of tax-exemption or the absence of a profit motive.