Review: The First 90 Days
Common sense advice for how to survive the launch into a new leadership role.
Articles P7200
Review: Trustees of Culture
Are elite boards getting out of touch with their organizations' true purpose?
Your Brain on Drug Addicts
Recent neuroscience research confirms that people - and the brains they contain - view drug addicts as not quite human.
Sound and Fury
Much public affairs lingo, such as "capacity," signifies nothing in particular. The nonprofit and public sectors have more than their share of this vocabulary. There are a handful of toxic words and phrases that have a way of polluting any stream of consciousness, muddying the concepts and making it impossible to see what facts and arguments (if any) lie below the surface.
Podcast
Council on Foundations Annual Conference - Philanthropy and Nonprofit Acountability Practices
In the field of philanthropy, are foundations' grantmaking and reporting processes aligned with nonprofits' strategies? In this panel discussion exploring data from a Center for Social Innovation study on nonprofit accountability practices and the costs of conflicting demands, experts debate ways in which evaluation requirements may help or hinder mission delivery.