Nonprofit Management for America
Teach for America (TFA) is the 6th largest employer of students upon their graduation from college, followed by Deloitte (to put it in perspective). …
Led by a Blind Man
I volunteer as an account director for the Taproot Foundation, an organization that is basically a Peace Corps for professionals to benefit non-profi…
Perfection vs. Multitasking
One of the most common habits that is also one of the hardest to break is perfectionism. For all but a few roles (e.g. accounting) perfectionism caus…
Intelligence, Character and Will
At the Aspen Ideas Festival on Sunday, I had the honor of introducing Howard Gardner, the author of the groundbreaking work on multiple intelligence …
Nonprofits' Role in Climate Change
Several years ago, a member of our management team suggested that we become carbon neutral and buy offsets to cover our travel. He had looked into it…
Loan Executives to Companies?
In the 1980s, there was a movement to create loaned executive programs at companies, which would send their leaders for a period of time to a local n…
Reclaiming Core Social Services
For some reason, I was recently looking at Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. For those who forget Psych 101, Maslow believed that while humans have …
Achieving Breakthrough Performance
The Stanford Social Innovation Review just published a study on the keys to managing breakthrough performance for a nonprofit. It was done by several…
Single-Era Conjecture
Randall Stross made the conjecture yesterday in the New York Times that there is an “invisible law that makes it impossible for a company in th…
Nation Divided
I recently finished Richard Florida’s new book – “Who’s Your City? “. He describes demographic trends that are concentr…
Breakthrough Research on Pro Bono Business Case
On Monday, Deloitte released their study on the potential of Pro Bono as a corporate professional development tool. The phone survey was of Fortune 5…
Pro bono makes you happy
We always wondered why all our volunteers have smiles on their faces all the time. Now we know. A recent study shows that people who do pro bono actu…
