All posts tagged "Management"

Rebirth of a Burned Out Board

For sale no more: The Crittenton home has been welcoming girls since 1932. Looking to the future: A young mother and her...

Vredenburgh Named to Head Girls Inc.

Judy Vredenburgh – former president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America – has been named president and CEO at...

Jury Slams Scouts with $18.5 M for Sex Abuse

In what appears to be biggest judgment ever against an American youth-serving organization for sex abuse, an Oregon jury today hit the...

Learning from Molesters: What the Scout Scandal Teaches Us

Should the Boy Scouts say sorry? Should the pope resign? Those are among the questions that people have been asking in recent...

Jury Deems Boy Scouts Negligent in Handling Sex Abuse

In a case that could have significant implications for one of the country’s most venerated youth-serving organizations, a Portland, Ore., jury today...

Newsmakers for March 2010

Nonprofits Last year around this time, two drug abuse prevention groups were heralding their looming merger as a perfect union. The National...

Non-Profits on Facebook

  http://www.facebook.com/nonprofits This is an effort to unite the thousands of nonprofits already on Facebook in one place to collaborate. Postings on...

Free Webinars Set for Nonprofits

  The National Human Services Assembly has launched a series of free webinars designed to educate leaders of human service nonprofits and...

Annie E. Casey Foundation Names New CEO

Patrick T. McCarthy will succeed the retiring Douglas Nelson as president and CEO of the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation, the foundation’s...

Understanding Donors’ Motivations

  The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana State University This report concludes that the motivations of donors are highly correlated to level...

What Are the Best College Access Programs?

Twenty-three programs designed to help youths get to or through college are featured in a new compendium released by the American Youth...

Conviction Shows Background Check Risk

  How thorough are your background checks for prospective employees? The conviction of a paid mentor in Washington, D.C., highlights the risks...

Youth Villages Absorbs Inner Harbour

  The decline in government referrals to residential programs continues to force decades-old youth agencies to close their doors or ask bigger...

Foundation Council Lays Off Staff

  The recession has forced many nonprofits and foundations to lay off staffers and wonder how they’ll fulfill their missions with fewer...

Foundations Inc.

http://www.foundationsinc.org Foundations Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides professional development services and technical assistance to schools, school districts and community organizations...

PolicyforResults

http://www.policyforresults.org Operated out of Washington, D.C., the Center for the Study of Social Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that promotes...

GreatNonprofits

  http://www.greatnonprofits.org Visitors to http://Greatnonprofits.org can find, review and discuss nonprofit organizations with ease. The website features user-generated content so visitors can...

A Plan to Help Save Nonprofits

Where is the bunker mentality, the hunker-down discipline, the emergency perspective, the feet-to-the-fire policy response to assisting youth-serving (and other) nonprofits in...

Top 10 Nonprofit ‘Brands’

The Best, Worst Places to Work in Federal Gov’t.

  A nonprofit last month released rankings of the best places to work in federal government in 2009, based on surveys of...