Long overdue, but Atul Gawande’s incredible article on the economics of health-care costs and the dark side of competition offers many lessons for the current debate in Congress and, indeed, for policy in general. The artists = crazy people thing just won’t go away. (Though, as Holden Caulfield might say, maybe it’s everyone else that’sRead More
Around the horn: dog days edition
The IRS says not so fast on the L3C, stressing that it has not yet weighed in on the tax implications of the new legal form. Generation Y likes to talk a big game about change, but Rosetta Thurman says that if we really want it we’re going to have to prove it. Stephanie EvansRead More
Around the horn: fireworks edition
Yay summer! This initiative to provide college students with real money to donate to local causes as part of coursework on philanthropy sounds totally amazing. As Robert Egger (of DC Central Kitchen) says, “just being asked what they think is HUGE” for under 30s, and “it is even more appreciated if you really listen.” AndRead More
Around the horn: redeye edition
This one will have to be quick because I’m leaving on a plane to California in a few hours. Busy, busy, busy! The Hewlett Foundation has finally released phase two of its Youth in the Arts report, conducted by Barry Hessenius. This edition used focus groups of young arts professionals to explore the implications ofRead More
Around the horn: Bake sale edition
Last weekend, I visited NYC and checked out some new music concerts for the first time in a while. The first, on Friday night, was the first-ever New Music Bake Sale presented by Newspeak and Ensemble de Sade, a raucous affair with five hours of music, well over a hundred attendees, tables for different organizationsRead 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
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
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
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- Next Page »