A heat map of museum activity in Asia would show the whole region aglow. At first glance, if you’ve been getting your story from mainstream American media, you might think Asian institutions are becoming just like us, or beating us at our own game: the National Museum of Cambodia recently put its collection online thanksRead More
The Social Network: Volunteer Edition
In honor of National Volunteer Week, let’s take a look at managing volunteers in true Createquity fashion–from a research-based perspective. Volunteers do a lot for arts organizations. They get mailings out the door, they get audience members to their seats, they bring in thousands of dollars, and they contribute their professional expertise to organizations theyRead More
Ten Strategies for Engaging Generation Y in the Nonprofit Workplace
In the week since I posted my thoughts on compensation of support employees in the nonprofit sector, the entry has been Facebooked, LinkedIn, Twittered, re-blogged, and emailed to the point that it is now the second-most-viewed Createquity post of all time (and fast gaining on the leader, Got Milk?). It’s no coincidence, I suspect, thatRead 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
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
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