FEATURED COLUMN: @NONPROFIT
Applying Fundamentals of a Nonprofit’s DNA To Enhance Planning
No two nonprofit organizations are identical. Each may reflect similar missions, visions, and values but—because of basic differences in their DNAs * —are clearly...
Giving Back: By Working ‘For Good’
These days, many neighborhoods use a website to help neighbors connect immediately with those surrounding them. In one community, members warn one another of...
Changing the World: With Global Volunteers
As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of this award-winning global media platform & Chief Encouragement Officer of our affiliated pro bono social impact enterprise; GoodWorks...
Volunteering for Your Health
Volunteers can make an immeasurable difference in the lives of others. Oftentimes, they perform with the core intention of helping others. But did you...
The Fantasy Nonprofit—Who Works There?
After three decades of immersion in the nonprofit culture, I occasionally allow myself to imagine what it would be like to start all over...
Hacking Homelessness: Proposed Solutions
1% Solutions At the beginning of 2019, I was contemplating what my next adventure should be. I had recently heard about someone doing a “hackathon...
Together – We Need to Feed My Starving Children
I have a dream. ... To be a musician ... To be an actor ... To be the best lawyer… These were the words I...
21st Century Nonprofit Boards Need to be Proactive in Strategy Development
Most Boards do not excel at strategy planning. In fact, when the subject is included on a meeting agenda, it usually produces a general...
Lead Up and Give Back
Women have always been givers. Look at Marie Curie. Her findings led to effective cures for cancer. Then there’s Harriet Tubman, who freed not...
What Nonprofits Can Do to Maintain Liquidity
It doesn’t take a pandemic to make a nonprofit question its capacity to survive. Events such as a loss of major funding, a damaged...
