Around the horn: Traffic spike edition

So, yesterday the number of visitors to Createquity shot up by about 500% over previous day averages for the past month. My recent post on compensation for support employees in the nonprofit sector got linked on the Philanthropy News Digest blog, and it looks like some people posted it on Facebook and emailed it aroundRead More

Compensation of support employees in the nonprofit sector

Last weekend I posted a couple of essays on compensation in the nonprofit sector which attracted a decent amount of feedback. The Cliffs Notes version, in case you don’t have time to read them, is that I don’t believe increasing executive compensation levels at large nonprofits will necessarily lead to a higher quality of leadershipRead More

Around the horn: April Fool’s edition

Having returned from my sojourn out West and down South which included both a wedding and a bar mitzvah, I am now getting ready for the final eighth of my MBA adventure. I’ll share the final version of my course schedule once it’s finalized next week, but for now it looks like I’ll be pursuingRead More

Nonprofit compensation follow-up

My post on nonprofit executive compensation from earlier this weekend drew a bunch of great comments, including two from Adam Forest Huttler. He writes: It seems to me the devil is in the proverbial details on this one… Is there a number you have in mind that, once crossed, makes compensation unreasonable? How much doesRead More

New (Old) Blogs!

Since I last updated my blogroll this past fall, the number of feeds I follow in my RSS reader has perhaps doubled. As a result, I’ve started to apply a little more editorial discretion to that list and I may have to do the same to the blogroll at some point in the future. ForRead More

Compensation in the nonprofit sector

Last weekend, while hanging out in San Francisco with some friends from my job last summer, we got to discussing the issue of executive compensation, which has been a hot topic lately to say the least. This question divides the people I come into contact with in my various travels perhaps more sharply than anyRead More

Around the horn: Spring break edition

I (started to) write this on an American Airlines flight to the Left Coast, where I’ll be attending a wedding and visiting old friends for the next week. Hasn’t really felt like spring break so far, what with the job hunt in full blast, but I suppose I should count my blessings that I haveRead More

What Do I Mean By An Artistic Marketplace?

In a recent post here, I threw around this idea of an artistic marketplace, as distinct from the market itself. I had thought I came up with the idea in one of my Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy posts from last year, but perhaps not surprisingly, I discovered that Adam Forest Huttler had articulated it muchRead More

Around the horn: March madness edition

Short and sweet, this time: Philanthropy News Digest highlights a few examples of non-profit newspaper models around the country. Cool story about Lower Manhattan arts organizations banding together to improve their joint situation, to the point of actually sharing audience and financial figures with each other. Well done, and hope it yields results. Leonard JacobsRead More

Is Disney World Art?

So, back in January my girlfriend and I went to Disney World. Neither of us had ever been before (though she was a veteran of both Tokyo Disney and Euro Disney). It was kind of an ironic journey; having been deprived of the iconic pre-adolescent suburban white kid experience growing up, we decided to claimRead More