Measuring up to the data
I was pretty excited when I saw the title of the recently released joint BDO and The NonProfit Times report, “Nonprofit Standards, A Benchmarking Survey.” While I was a little surprised that these two organizations would have been the ones to define a set of nonprofit standards, I quickly understood why, and the disappointment just rained down. Turns out this is a study of the exceptions, not the rule. So, why am I even wasting my words on this? Because it says so much about Read more
The Great Financial Divide
So many in the nonprofit sector toil to bridge the ever widening chasm that divides the rich as they get richer and the middle and lower classes as they get poorer. We work to level the playing fields for everyone and to ensure equal access to those things that make life livable, such as affordable health care, arts and culture and a healthy environment. Yet the very sector in which we work is experiencing that same divide.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the growing Read more
