Founder of Storytelling Center Plots New Opportunities for His Charity
Johnson City, Tenn. It’s 7:30 a.m. and Jimmy Neil Smith is sitting in a booth at an IHOP restaurant here. Dressed in a casual suit topped by a bolo tie, he is meeting two longtime friends, businessmen who teach a course together in entrepreneurship at East Tennessee State University. The three are…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
JOB MARKET Several organizations can provide charities with free or low-cost salary-comparison data: The Center for Nonprofit Management, in Los Angeles, does two annual compensation surveys, one of ALSO SEE:How Charities Evaluate Whether Their Employees’ Salaries Are Equitable nonprofit groups in…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
How Charities Evaluate Whether Their Employees’ Salaries Are Equitable
JOB MARKET By Marilyn Dickey Lincoln Heights HealthCare Connection was having trouble hiring workers. The charity, which provides ALSO SEE:Sources of Salary Data medical services to the underinsured in Hamilton County, Ohio, hired a human-resources consultant, who had a hunch where the problem…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Pittsburgh charities pool efforts to hire a personnel managerFor more than a decade, when the Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery had a job opening, ALSO SEE:Online Resources for ManagersHuman Resources From ScratchExperts Offer Advice to Inexperienced Human-Resources Managers the…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
An image makeover helps a peace group face the futureWhen the World Federalist Association began reinventing itself last year, most of its staff members, trustees, and constituents thought it was a great idea. Most agreed that the Washington nonprofit organization’s name was outdated and didn’t…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
How Exit Interviews Can Help Charities Improve Conditions for Their Remaining Employees
JOB MARKET By Marilyn Dickey When employees started leaving one department of a West Coast arts organization in droves, it was hard to convince the charity’s leaders that a top supervisor was part of the reason why. The supervisor had the esteem of the group’s administration, says its…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Counting the Pros and Cons of Letting Charity Staff Members Interview Their Potential Future Bosses
JOB MARKET By Marilyn Dickey Steve Johnson has definite ideas about what kind of boss works best in his department. So last fall, when he was asked to be among several staff members to interview the top three candidates to become his supervisor, he knew exactly what to do. As director of new media…
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Senior Editor, Copy
A leader of a mental-health group serves diverse constituenciesBaltimore It’s 6:15 on a warm Wednesday evening, and Kathryn S. Farinholt is chatting animatedly with visitors, volunteers, and board members as they file into the offices of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill’s Baltimore…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Fund-Raising Veterans Offer Advice on Setting Up a Donor-Research Unit
During Peg Shelton’s first month as a researcher in the fund-raising department of the U.S. Olympic Committee, in Colorado Springs, Colo., she created a report that showed where the nonprofit organization could get millions more in donations. Working with the fund-raising staff, she identified…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Charity Leaders Share Their Strategies for Recruiting the Best Volunteers
VOLUNTEERISM By Marilyn Dickey Four years ago, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana matched 300 boys and girls with volunteers who served as their mentors, friends, and role models. Although that seemed impressive, twice that many youngsters were still waiting to be matched with volunteers. The…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy