A Foundation’s Effort to Transform Arts Groups
An official of one of the nation’s biggest grant makers explains how his organization responded to the bad economy and the difficult challenges facing cultural organizations.
Setting Prices for Nonprofit Services
Nonprofits have several options when it comes to setting prices for their services.
How to Stop the Board Time Warp
Nonprofit boards need annual objectives and reviews to keep them engaged.
Nonprofits and lenders need to better understand how borrowing can help an organization thrive.
Let’s Change the Way Nonprofits Find Money to Grow
It’s time to stop starving nonprofits and give them the resources they need to serve the greater good.
Desperately Seeking Innovation, Part 2
Last week’s post, Desperately Seeking Innovation, generated a wide variety of responses, both about the consent agenda and about innovation.
For-Profits Should Drop the ‘We Know Better’ Attitude
All the effort to make nonprofits more like businesses is backfiring. Instead, it’s time to make sure nonprofits achieve their potential.
Nonprofits Can’t Always Borrow From Business
Business ideas work well in many parts of the nonprofit world, but not when it comes to closing a nonprofit and leaving clients without anywhere else to turn.
Desperately Seeking Innovation
Given all the problems boards have carrying out their key duties, why have nonprofit leaders been so slow to develop new ways to handle governance?
A solid partnership between the board and the executive director is essential for good governance, yet too many executives view their boards as nuisances or worse. What does a healthy relationship look like?