Accountability and transparency are key to running a nonprofit. Since most of the budget is obtained through grants and donations and the deliverables should be directly impacting participants, nonprofits have a responsibility to stakeholders and beneficiaries to be transparent and … Continue reading
Watching the TEDxMid Atlantic video made me realize just how much our decisions are based on word of mouth. I thought it was a very interesting point that he was making when he argued for the need to do your … Continue reading
Since we touched on the topic of communicating our narrative in class, I got curious about how notable nonprofits use videos and outlets like YouTube to communicate their mission. Of course, the larger the organization, the bigger the investment on … Continue reading
My experience working with small or recently formed nonprofit organizations always made me interpret mission and vision as the same monster. Most of the time, due to limited staffing and the ambition to do it all, we would find ourselves … Continue reading
On the topic of Boards, I wanted to share this article on the fact that CUNY will once again raise tuition, a decision taken by the CUNY Board of Trustees, but they also decided on giving high administrators a raise: http://nypost.com/2017/06/26/top-cuny-administrators-are-about-to-get-fatter-paychecks/ … Continue reading
As one of my favorite author, Malcolm Gladwell, I enjoyed reading The Talent Myth. We live in a society that puts a lot of emphasize in GPA, degrees and legacies. He makes a very important point in terms of high … Continue reading
I found this list of celebrity-related charities: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=949 I thought it was very interesting to see who our favorite celebrities support. Their choice to fund or be involved in a specific charity can tell us a lot about who they are as … Continue reading
While reading the Oprah case and reviewing it in class, I kept thinking about the academic Institute I had previously worked for. The Institute was awarded about 2 million dollars by a private donor, with conditions only of when and … Continue reading
I got curious and research nonprofits that in my opinion have some nonconventional mission statements. Here are a few of what I found: Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: dedicated to protecting your firearms rights. Our … Continue reading
I was very surprised to learn how broad the encompass of nonprofit really is. I had always thought that nonprofits were simply defined by a service providing organization that was tax exempt and whose mission was to provide back to social … Continue reading