Last week, I blogged about my first thoughts after hearing about Independent Sector’s new “Envisioning Our Future” Initiative designed to “reinvent the nonprofit sector”: Independent Sector Launches “Envisioning Our Future” Initiative, But is it Inclusive Enough? I was lamenting the lack of young people involved in the gathering, and was happy to see Neel Hajra, [...]
More Thoughts on Nonprofit Infrastructure from CompassPoint’s Nelson Layag
Yesterday, several of you dear readers posted some very thoughtful comments on my post, What Does the Future Hold for Nonprofit Infrastructure Organizations? I think we started a rich discussion not just for ourselves, but for our colleagues that are reading as well. Lots of food for thought as we move forward in this new [...]
What Does the Future Hold for Nonprofit Infrastructure Organizations?
If you work at a nonprofit, you really need to read this report by the Nonprofit Quarterly. The Nonprofit Quarterly’s Study on (U.S.) Nonprofit and Philanthropic Infrastructure maps and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the network that supports nonprofits and philanthropy in the U.S. The report is even more relevant now considering how the [...]
Life is a Journey That Parallels: My First Month as a PhD Student
“I believe the single most important thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. ” – Maya Angelou Most of you know that I’ve recently gone back to school as a full-time PhD student at Regent University’s School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship. I am pursuing the PhD in Organizational Leadership. It’s been about [...]
Nonprofits Will Never Be Respected Until We Start Respecting Ourselves
There has been a lot of conversation lately about the future of the nonprofit sector. The economy has got us all in a tizzy, worrying about who will be left standing when the smoke clears. The blogosphere is rockin’ with folks talking about the four possible futures for the nonprofit sector, low nonprofit compensation, whether [...]
