Honor Your Employees

They may not realize it, but the pending FLSA overtime changes that are due to take effect on December 1 represent a huge opportunity for many nonprofits.    So just what is this up side to what everyone else sees as a negative or even a threat?

Time after time, I see nonprofits looking at something that is, first and foremost, a question of ethics, but responding as if it were only a question of finances.  And that is exactly what is happening here.  When folks read Read more

The Business of Nonprofits

If I gave a before-and- after test to the students in my MBA class on nonprofit management, and grades were based on how much was learned, as opposed to how much was learned how well (which is really what grades should reflect), every student in that class would have to get an A.  Why?  Because sadly, the state of real knowledge (as opposed to myth and the nonsense people spout when then know nothing about a subject but pretend they do) about the nonprofit sector Read more