Social commentary and cause marketing
Posted in Activism, Mission, Vision, Values on Oct 20th, 2009
The tagline “Nothing Stops A Bullet Like A Job” from Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries won all-star honors in the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards.
Homeboy Industries, which assists at-risk and former gang member youth with job training and placement, received the top honor among 12 other winning nonprofit taglines this year.
Nancy E. Schwartz, president of [...]
Posted in Board of Directors, Mission, Vision, Values, Sarbanes-Oxley on Apr 28th, 2009
Anyone who has read my blog for any period of time or has been a nonprofit grad student of mine knows how I feel about nonprofit boards. Most are just deplorable – wasting precious staff energies and bringing nothing to the board table.
We need a “Jack Kevorkian” for nonprofit boards – cutting the oxygen and [...]
Posted in Mission, Vision, Values, Quotes on Nov 29th, 2007
In regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free society; some are guilty, while all are responsible.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Posted in Leadership, Mission, Vision, Values on Sep 8th, 2007
The Salvation Army is rightfully considered one of the most effective, best-managed nonprofit organizations in America.
In five brief paragraphs, they summarize their value-based operating guidelines.
Keep first things first. To put it another way, the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. It requires a constant reminder to everyone in the [...]
Posted in Leadership, Mission, Vision, Values on Sep 3rd, 2007
I’m an enormous fan of Margaret “Meg” Wheatley. She writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for leading in chaotic times. Meg draws many of her ideas from new science and life’s ability to organize in self-organizing, systemic, and cooperative modes.
Listen, let in, what she says about leadership.
“There is a simpler, [...]
Posted in Mission, Vision, Values on Aug 29th, 2007
I find such power in the enduring wisdom of this holy man.
I take such strength in the enduring words of this holy man. Notice how relevant his words are as when he originally spoke them:
Wealth without work,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Pleasure without conscience,
Politics without principles,
Knowledge without character.
–Mahatma Gandhi,
Leader of the Indian Nationalist movement
Posted in Leadership, Management, Mission, Vision, Values, Values on Feb 28th, 2007
Peter Drucker, the 20th century management guru, believed that the seeds to successful organizations all started by answering five powerful questions. These questions address the ways an organization intends to create value for its customers and is therefore applicable to all organizations, not just businesses. It requires answering the following:
What is our [...]
Posted in Culture, Diversity, Management, Mission, Vision, Values on Feb 12th, 2007
As the concept of diversity grows and evolves, many nonprofits are taking steps to make diversity part of their institutional culture. Many larger organizations are establishing a diversity officer, sometimes as part of other responsibilities and sometimes as a separate position.
Kay Hoogland, vice president and corporate director for global diversity for Motorola, offers a few [...]
Posted in Editorials, Ethics, Mission, Vision, Values on Nov 3rd, 2006
In an article in today’s Washington Post, Rev. Ted Haggard, President of the National Evangelical Association (NEA) revealed that “he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a self-described male escort.” Now mind you, this admission contradicted his denial only two days ago.
To put this in perspective, the NEA under Haggard’s leadership has been [...]
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