Painless GivingTerrie Temkin Last month I blogged about three graduate students at Rutgers University that made a life-long pledge to give a significant portion of their incomes to those less fortunate. A common response I got to the post was similar to what the three themselves have heard: “How ... |
What Everyman Can Learn from Student PhilanthropistsTerrie Temkin I’m an avid NPR listener. For awhile, now, I’ve regularly been hearing a message from the Community Foundation of Broward (Florida) on my local station that goes something like this: Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are encouraging their fellow billionaires to pledge half their fortunes ... |
All the More Reason for Nonprofits to Collaborate…Terrie Temkin At the BoardSource Leadership Forum in San Francisco. BoardSource President and CEO Linda Crompton opened the convening. One of her comments was that innovation is not necessarily an event or a singular killer idea. It tends to ... |
Study on Women Donors Presents Lessons for Board RecruitmentTerrie Temkin A study[1]released this week by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy showed that women are the largest donors. They give more in actual dollars and they give more frequently than men. This is a reality that holds true ... |
Who Should Facilitate the Exit Interview?Terrie Temkin The other day a respected colleague and good friend, Carol Weisman, sent a copy of her latest blog post entitled, “Don’t Just Whack’em and Plaque’em: Exit Interviews for Retiring Board Members.” As all of Carol’s writings, it dealt with an important subject, was informative and had me in ... |
Should Board Members’ Contributions Be Designated To Pay For Their Education?Terrie Temkin I was speaking with a couple of colleagues the other day and the subject of board contributions came up. Later in the conversation we transitioned into the importance of ongoing board education and organizations building a sufficiently-large line item into their budgets for this. And then the ... |
Should US Nonprofits Adopt a Patron System?Terrie Temkin I worked recently in Singapore. While I found many similarities in the ways nonprofits do business both there and here in the United States, I found differences as well. One of the biggest was their use of a patron system. Besides having what we would consider the ... |
So You Think Your Communications Officer Isn't Important . . .Robyn Fern Perlman Just this year an illustrious professional career ends abruptly; a world-wide brand that spent millions of dollars over the years to build a sterling reputation, out in front of every one of its competitors, watches its status unravel; and an international conglomerate faces an industrial disaster ... |
I'm Not Moving, I'm StuckRobyn Fern Perlman So we're stuck. Why does it seem that "stuck" although not unique to the nonprofit sector seems intractable in many nonprofit organizations. Why is it that we artfully craft mission and vision statements that reflect our desire to change communities, change outcomes and change the world ... |
Should We Be Considering Professional Board Chairs?Terrie Temkin I recently returned from Australia where I facilitated a series of master classes in governance. While the US and Australian systems are similar, there are some distinct differences. One, to which I was introduced this trip, is a trend toward hiring professional board chairs. Though not wide-spread, ... |
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