JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Minority women who head charities are more likely to have had management experience in government or business compared with nonprofit leaders overall, according to a new survey by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, a group in San Francisco that offers management…
By Lara L. McDavit
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Managers Who Have Moved From Businesses to Charities Tell How They Navigated the Differences
JOB MARKET By Jeffrey Klineman She seemed to be the perfect candidate. A community-theater performer in her youth, she had earned a master’s in business administration and gone on to a responsible, lucrative position in the travel-card industry. (Travel cards are credit cards that are used at gas…
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ENTRY LEVEL CarlLa Horton Age: 52 First job: Canvasser, Citizens for a Better Environment, Chicago Current job: Executive director, the Northern Westchester Shelter, Pleasantville, N.Y. I grew up in a very poor home in Chicago, one in which there was a lot of domestic violence. One of my brothers…
Finding, Paying for, and Getting the Best Work from Nonprofit Interns
IN THE TRENCHES By Kelly A. J. Powers In the summer of 2001, the leaders of the Women’s Wilderness Institute had an idea that would, in one stroke, expand its efforts to provide camping trips for girls and women and help subsidize trips for the neediest participants. The charity in Boulder, Colo.,…
By Kelly A.J. Powers
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Successes and Challenges for After-School Programs
Multiple Choices After School: Findings From the Extended-Service Schools Initiative by Jean Baldwin Grossman, Marilyn L. Price, Veronica Fellerath, LInda Z. Jcovy, Lauren J. Kotloff, Rebecca Raley, Karen E. Walker reports on 60 after-school programs created through grants from the Wallace-Reader’s…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Asking: a 59-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift by Jerold Panas presents advice on soliciting charitable donations from individuals. Mr. Panas, chief executive officer of Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners, a fund-raising consulting company in…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Diverse Perspectives Can Benefit Decision Making
The Collaborative Leadership Handbook: a Guide for Citizens and Civic Leaders
By Jessica Kronstadt
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A Museum Adminstrator Learns What It’s Like to Be CEO
Davenport, Iowa Cyclone country might not be the ideal place for a person to try her first building project, given the way structures sometimes get picked up and torn apart. But for Linda A. Downs, the location is not as key as the opportunity. In September, after 13 years as the education director…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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Tax Agency Ends Program on Donated Leave Time
The IRS has ended a program that allowed employees to donate the value of their unused paid leave to charity without paying income taxes on the gift. Following the terrorist attacks in 2001, the IRS made a special exception to income-tax rules that allowed workers to pay no income taxes on paid…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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