The 2010 Pro Bono Resolution
(Click to See Our New Youtube Channel!) It’s that time of year again when many of us reflect on the past year of our lives, look ahead at the p…
Design Thinking
Design thinking has become one of the hot topics in the consulting world and is now making its way into the nonprofit sector. The most recent edition…
Corporate and City Service Enterprises
Bobbi Silten, the Chief Foundation Officer at Gap, Inc. made an interesting observation about the segmentation posted in this blog last week. It is n…
The Service Enterprise
In an Op-Ed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy earlier this year, I outlined the challenge we face as a nonprofit sector in absorbing the influx of vol…
FD Sets Gold Standard for PR
We recently received a service grant from FD. FD is a global communications consultancy where one of our board members is a senior managing director.…
Making the Nonprofit Sector a Better Place to Work
One of nonprofit sector’s biggest challenges is one that has typically been under-researched, under-funded, and largely unaddressed. Nonprofits…
Pro Bono Board Development Resource
After eight years, we finally had a successful board recruitment process last year. We had recruited great board members before, but the process was …
Water Envy
Someone recently said that Charity: Water has the best marketing in the business (meaning nonprofit community). He may very well be right. Their mark…
Refining Career Coaching
When new students at NYU’s Stern MBA program start, they are asked to complete a career profile. It asks a number of questions about their pers…
Gen X: It's Time to Join Boards
An accomplished professional in his mid-30s called me recently. He wanted to get more engaged in the community and wanted my advice on how to best do…
Gen Y Itching for Pro Bono
An article in this summer’s issue of the Harvard Business Review outlines the needs of Gen Y in the workplace. Their expectations can be met by…
Synonym for "Lobbying"
We all associate lobbying with corruption and corporations taking over the government. That is certainly part of the lobbying world, but when the med…
