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Transcending the Organization
Transcending the Organization
Winter 2006
Welcome
Welcome to Winter 2006
Ethics & Conflict
The Nonprofit Ethicist: Winter 2006
A former board member absconds with art­work donated to the organization’s auction. What’s an ethical board to do? Impoverished volunteers avail themselves of donations while sorting them. How to handle?
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Governance
Reframing Governance

The most substantive decisions on your organization’s governance is likely happening far from the board room. How should your governance systems respond?

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Nonprofit Sector
Trust, Authenticity, and Community: Our Vital Assets

Nonprofits offer precisely the connections and meaning for which people yearn. Schambra exhorts nonprofits to cultivate these characteristics and not lose themselves to mimicking government or business.

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Accountability: Community Engagement
Citizens at the Center: A Refocused Approach to Civic Engagement

Funders and nonprofits who seek to enrich our democracy must adopt citizen-centered approaches, driven by and for the people they affect, if they want to move from “outputs” to sustainable change.  

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Governance
System-Wide Governance for Community Empowerment
Centro Presente, a leading organization in the immigrant justice movement, energized its mission and constituency when it moved from a top-down board to a governance structure that engaged a broad array of stakeholders....
 
Exposes, Scandal and Fraud
Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club: Mistakes You Need Not Make
This convoluted case of organizational malfeasance is a cautionary tale for boards that have abdicated their oversight role. ...
Exposes, Scandal and Fraud
Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club: Implications of the Scandal
Who has the Gloria Wise scandal damaged? The author traces the ripples to give us a sense of the social impact of one organization gone wrong. ...
 
Accountability: Regulation
Honest Not Onerous: The "New" Accountability Environment

Two legal experts discuss the “new accountability environment” but for most nonprofits not much has changed.

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Governance
You're Paying What? How to Set Executive Compensation
What is excessive compensation of a nonprofit leader? The IRS is paying closer attention, so should you.
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Governance
Effective Board Chair-Executive Director Relationships: Not About Roles!
The secret to ensuring that this critical relationship works isn’t about clear role definition, it’s all about trust according to recent research. ...
Philanthropy
Branson, Google, and Clinton: Philanthropy's X-Men
The strange new mutants of philanthropy. ...
 
Human Resources: Leadership Transistions
Which Light is Right? The Impending Leadership Deficit Crisis

Whether you believe recent alarms about an impending leadership crisis or not, the Lights point out important considerations that should engage nonprofit leaders now.

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Financial Management: Processes
E-Filing Update
E-Filing of 990s will become the new standard. Don’t be left behind. ...
 
Technology
Bleeding-Edge Technologies: New Challenges for Nonprofits
Web 2.0 and open source have opened new potential at lower risk for nonprofits who need to build capacity at lower cost. ...
The Take-Away
The Take-Away: Winter 2006
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Satire
Nonprofit Breaches of Sarbanes-Oxley: The Terrible Truth
Recent research shows that nonprofit organizations are not complying with a law that does not apply to them. Who cares?...