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 [...]
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 [...]
Creating the Safe Space to Talk About Race in the Nonprofit Sector
Here in America, we’ve had several opportunties to discuss race since the election of our nation’s first African American President: The New York Post cartoon depicting the author of the economic stimulus bill as a dead monkey Attorney General Eric Holder declaring that our country is “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race [...]
