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 [...]
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 [...]
Below is an update of a column published in The News Tribune on September 18, 2002. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the need for board members to speak up. This created a bit of a stir. Calls came in asking if it was their organization of which I was writing. The answer [...]
