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Your Promise is Your Brand: How to Work It
An effective organizational promise is identified through an honest assessment of ability, opportunity, and desire. Tapping the collective aspirations of board, staff, and community partners can...
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Should Nonprofits Dominate in Health Care Delivery? Why You Should Care
If we were to look at a combination of the ROI and results for those being served is nonprofit health care a better deal for consumers than for-profit? Some disturbing recent findings suggest that this...
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Ideas from Nonprofit Singularity University Spreading to Google?
This week, Google began working with its newly hired director of engineering: Ray Kurzweil, the futurist co-founder of the nonprofit Singularity University.
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Life “at the Top:” Reflections on Being a Young Executive
What does it feel like to be a young nonprofit executive? Here is one woman’s view of “life at the top.”
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Letting Go: A Leadership Challenge
In this interview, Deborah Linnell, Hez Norton, and Tim Wolfred discuss the tough topic of executive transition—when executives should leave and when they should stay to ease the shift—and other trends...
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Focus and Connect: Blackbaud CEO Sees Big Opportunity in Downturn
Blackbaud President and CEO Marc Chardon discusses an interesting array of challenges and opportunities for nonprofits in the year ahead with NPQ Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge.
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Former Nonprofit CEO with High Salary Compares Himself to Gandhi
The former CEO of a nonprofit substance abuse treatment organization defends his $2.5 million in compensation between 2008 and 2011 by drawing comparisons to Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
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Fringe Groups and the GOP “Big Tent”
How will the GOP handle the support of fringe groups with questionable attitudes on race?
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The Future of Civil Society, Davos Style
A report prepared for the World Economic Forum titled “The Future Role of Civil Society” contains some interesting ideas, but why must it entail a strong dose of for-profit ethos?
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Climate Now Right to Address Global Warming and Save the Humans?
From U.S. President Barack Obama to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, world leaders have been taking up the language of environmental advocates in recent days.
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Will Foundation Leader Head Office of Management and Budget?
If Sylvia Mathews Burwell were appointed to lead the Office of Management and Budget, she would be the most nonprofit- and foundation-experienced person ever to do so.
View ArticleYouth Leadership: The Engine of Immigrant Civic Participation
Among the lessons of the 2008 presidential election was the importance of immigrant youth groups in fueling civic engagement.
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Powerful Nonprofit Leadership: The D Factor
Should your context drive your leadership style? NPQ’s editors think so.
View ArticleDefending Defensiveness
Defensive behavior is instinctive, but it can be counterproductive in our work relationships and organizations. Janoff discusses how we can learn and promote different approaches.
View ArticleDo You See What I See?
Why do some community-based nonprofits sound more like each other than the diverse communities they serve? This article, addressing a core issue of nonprofit accountability, is based on research...
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Coastal Family Health: Built to Last
As Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast, we are reminded of the phenomenal role civil society organizations play in disaster. This particular story, about the vivid experiences of the leaders of the...
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Asking the Right Person for the Right Amount
We are heading into a heavy fundraising season, how do you make every ask count to the utmost? In this article from our archives, the guru Kim Klein reintroduces us to wrong and right ways to make “the...
View ArticleBrave Leadership in Organizational Conflict
Conflict and creative tension are key parts of organizational existence, but what is a leader to do when the situation becomes toxic?
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Boards and Leadership Hires: How to Get It Right
How a board handles a leadership transition can have powerful and long-lasting effects. This article discusses how the board’s handling of this pivotal moment can result in long-lasting problems—and...
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Preparing an Organization to Sustain Capable Leadership
By accident or design, your organization will change leadership. The author offers a range of steps you can take to ensure the organization maintains its equilibrium.
View ArticleEssentials for Advancing Nonprofit Advocacy: Board Leadership
Avner explains why your board is a powerful but often underused resource.
View ArticleCall to Leadership: Profiles of Board Chairs
Who are the board chairs interviewed in the previous article? What makes them unusually effective? This set of profiles shows the diversity and richness of this layer of leadership in the sector.
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Effective Board Chair-Executive Director Relationships: Not About Roles!
The secret to ensuring that this critical relationship works isn’t about clear role definition, it’s all about trust, according to recent research.
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Ponzi Schemes That Ensnare Nonprofits (and How to Avoid Them)
Nonprofits, donors, and people allied with them: watch out when there are deals that sound too good to be true. They just about always are.
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Four Small Arts Groups, One Innovative Marketing Model
Four Chicago nonprofit dance companies have merged into one: FlySpace. Is this the model of the future for many arts organizations that may benefit from pooling resources?
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The Papacy’s Lessons for Succession Planning?
As the Catholic Church prepares to consider who will be the next pope, some believe the Church needs a “rebranding” effort, but does that term really capture the charge?
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A Chief Economist for the Nonprofit Sector? Oh Canada!
Imagine Canada has named Brian Emmett the nation’s first-ever chief economist for the charitable and nonprofit sector. What a great idea!
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What Would Fair Media Coverage of Exec Salaries Look Like?
When a husband and wife team earns almost $800,000 from a nonprofit that serves those in need, should they expect some critical media attention and/or public backlash?
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A Nonprofit Executive Transition with Public Drama
Executive transitions can be difficult and even more difficult when a strong-minded, longtime leader is leaving. This one in Pennsylvania has gotten a little dicey, public and unfortunate, at least in...
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Remembering Chavez’s Debated Role in U.S. Home Heating Assistance
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died yesterday. In the U.S., some remember him for his much-debated role in subsidizing oil heating for poor families.
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What Is Leadership?
Simone Joyaux offers notions of leadership around concepts of learning, change, stewardship, and organizational glue. Is leadership an art? A developed skill? Joyaux opines.
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Bad Nonprofit Gender News Disguised as Good
Nonprofit executive positions and boards in MA are less overwhelmingly male-dominated than their for-profit peers. Hooray? Not exactly.
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Rediagnosing “Founder’s Syndrome”: Moving Beyond Stereotypes to Improve...
Founders are the very soul of this sector. They are people who envision a change vividly enough to place so much at risk—relationships, reputation and time—on a personal level to make a thing happen....
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The CEO As Board Chair?
In the spirit of printing ideas that we do not necessarily agree with, here is a provocative thought—or what we consider to be a “modest proposal”—from Mike Burns, who has spent a number of decades...
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The Promising Choice for Ford’s Presidency: Darren Walker
The new president of the Ford Foundation possesses powerful strengths and a deep commitment to collaborative, democratic processes. He is African American, a lawyer, a financial whiz, and a HeadStart...
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Leaning into Discomfort: Social Sector Leadership in the 21st Century
One problem with using “impact measurement” as a sole or primary way to judge effectiveness is that sometimes in advocacy on a political issue it may take all you have just to keep the flag flying and...
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Are Co-CEOs in Nonprofits a Trend? One Case
Is shared leadership in nonprofits a trend, and under what conditions does it work?
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National Endowments for Arts and Humanities Leaderless in Budget Negotiations
Without people in the top spots, are the NEA and NEH without the political oomph to protect and advance their fields?
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CEOs Must Embrace Social Media…Finally
CEOs are community leaders, especially in the nonprofit sector, and social media has become the new soapbox upon which they should stand.
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