The Perils of Getting Big

By Alana Conner Snibbe

Larger social service organizations may result in less innovation.

Overhead Isn’t Everything

By Alana Conner Snibbe 1

How donors should think about nonprofit efficiency.

For Love or Money

By Alana Conner Snibbe

Innovative plays are good for all theaters, but lucrative for only a few.

Drowning in Data

By Alana Conner Snibbe 9

Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.

Nonprofits

What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits

By Les Silverman & Lynn Taliento 24

Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofits

The Leadership Deficit

By Thomas J. Tierney 2

Creative ways to meet the growing demand for talent by finding and recruiting new leaders from a wide range of groups, including business, the military, and the growing pool of retirees.

Pundits Weigh In

By various authors

Social sector leaders opinions on the article, "The Leadership Deficit."

Chilling With Greenpeace, From the Inside Out

By Cathy L. Hartman & Edwin R. Stafford 1

Greenpeace catapulted Greenfreeze, an ozone- and climate-safe refrigerant, into widespread use and launched the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000.

With Vigor and VIM

By Leslie Berger 5

How retired healthcare professionals are taking care of the uninsured.

Balkan Boom to Bust

By Beth Kampschror

Vanishing NGOs in Bosnia leave lessons in their wake.