How a California Leader Got the Toughness She Needed to Rebuild a Community-Services Group
ENTRY LEVEL Esther Medina Age: 66 First nonbusiness job: Investigator of sex-discrimination complaints, Commission on the Status of Women, Santa Clara County, San Jose, Calif. Current job: Executive director, Mexican American Community Services Agency, San Jose, Calif. When I was about 5, my family…
Handling the Ethical Dilemmas that Corporate Partners Can Bring to a Charity
IN THE TRENCHES By Rebecca Gardyn Each year, for more than 40 years, the Reader’s Digest Foundation dutifully handed over a check for $40,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. No strings. No quid pro quo. No questions asked. So when 1993’s check never showed up, Kurt Aschermann, chief marketing…
By Rebecca Gardyn
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A Job-Interview Lunch Serves Up a Full Plate of Anxiety –Â and Opportunity
JOB MARKET By Jeffrey Klineman To some job seekers, it’s as simple a matter as not ordering anything slippery, saucy, or stinky. But to others, it’s a complicated, ALSO SEE:Tips to Help Job Seekers and Employers Manage Interview Meals nerve-wracking dance, the kind that might end up with them…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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Tips to Help Job Seekers and Employers Manage Interview Meals
JOB MARKET Nonprofit employers, recruiters, and etiquette experts suggest the following guidelines for both sides of the table during job-interview meals. Job SeekersFollow the leader. Confirm your appointment ahead of time, be prompt, and heed your host’s ALSO SEE:A Job-Interview Lunch Serves Up a…
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Families. The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (Alexandria, Va.) has presented its annual 21st Century Community Champion Award to Steve Coen, vice…
New Director Hopes to Build Stamina at Cyclist’s Cancer Charity
Eileen Earhart Oldag doesn’t own a bicycle. She hasn’t ridden much since elementary school, in fact, and that was more than 40 years ago. Yet, Ms. Oldag finds herself in the inner circle of one of the world’s most celebrated bicycle racers, Lance Armstrong. Last month, she became executive director…
By Debra E. Blum
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Preparing Children for School and Success
Set for Success: Building a Strong Foundation for School Readiness Based on the Social-Emotional Development of Young Children is a collection of six papers presented at the Kauffman Early Education Exchange conference in November 2001, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, in Kansas…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Keys to Successful Volunteer Programs
Making the Most of Volunteers, by Jean Baldwin Grossman and Kathryn Furano, offers advice on the most efficient use of volunteers by drawing on a study of hundreds of programs that use volunteers heavily, conducted by Public/Private Ventures, a Philadelphia nonprofit organization that works to…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Research Methods in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management
Research Methods in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Coordinating Refugee-Relief Efforts
The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century
By Jessica Kronstadt
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