Thanks to NPQ’s Nonprofit Newswire, published daily by the folks at the Nonprofit Quarterly, I’ve just read an interesting but disturbing article. The key statement is that the authors (university researchers) found that consumers perceive nonprofits to be “less competent than for-profits.” This belief makes people “more likely to buy products from for-profits than non-profits.” [Click here [...]
The other day I had a conversation with a woman who, like me, has been involved in the nonprofit sector for more years than we care to count. We were talking about what nonprofits need to be more successful, and that very quickly led to a discussion of boards and what would be helpful to [...]
For just shy of eight years, I wrote a column for The News Tribune on nonprofit topics. Many of the columns focused on governance, so we’ll be reprinting selected ones from time to time. Originally published March 8, 2006 Several people have asked me lately if nonprofit board meetings are subject to the requirements of [...]
