Category: nonprofit leadership and management
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What Cooking Teaches Me about Management
Over the past five years or so, I’ve really devoted much of my free time to teaching myself to cook. I’m no chef by any stretch of the imagination and I live in the shadow of my mother, who’s like a gourmet in her own right, but I do all right and I’m committed to…
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University to Pay Off Student Loans for Students Who Work in Public/Nonprofit Sectors
Tufts University, in Medford, Mass., announced yesterday that it plans to help pay off the loans of its undergraduate and graduate students if they work for a nonprofit group or a public-sector employer, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education. The amount of loan reimbursement will depend on a student’s loan burdens and income levels. The…
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My Pet Issue #5: Equal Pay for Equal Work in the Nonprofit Sector
I feel like if organizations won’t pay their employees a competitive salary, then they are obligated to recognize the deficit between the for-profit and non-profit industry salaries as actual in-kind financial donations that employees can then write off their taxes. Click for full article. As nonprofit groups increasingly compete with business and government employers to…
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All pigs are created equal, but some pigs are more equal, and other pigs work for nonprofits where they aren’t paid the value of their labor.
I mentioned in class tonight that I get very concerned when I hear a nonprofit leader say something like, “I know we don’t pay our staff what they would earn in the for-profit world, but then again, they get to work in a job doing something they really love.” And so it happened today that…
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Vegas, More
I was in Vegas last weekend to attend the annual Americans for the Arts (AFTA) convention. It was my first time attending and it wasn’t quite what I expected it to be. There were sessions on Leadership, Community Development, and Economic Development that were of interest to me, and I attended a few things every…
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Principles of Nonprofit Employment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Case Study
There are several traits involved in working for and succeeding in nonprofit environment that seem fairly common across the board, whether someone works toward social betterment or in the arts sector. Over seven seasons, Buffy Summers epitomized the kind of moxy the nonprofit employee must embrace in order to create positive change in their community.…
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