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 By Valyrie Laedlein - In any setting, what is it that compels hard work, extension of self, high performance, commitment of time?   Read more >>

Friday, March 12, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

 By Jean Lobell  A brief article in the Human Resources Magazine – The Future Manager is T-Shaped -- captured my imagination for the second time.   Read more >>

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

by Louisa Hackett - In the for-profit sector, competition is touted as the means for creating efficient and effective organizations.    Read more >>

Monday, March 01, 2010 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

by Valyrie Laedlein - How much time do those of us on executive teams spend preparing reports, summaries, “Board Books,” and Power Point presentations for our Board of Directors meetings?  Read more >>

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

by Mohan Sikka - Last month, my colleagues Jean Lobell, Carolyn Sauvage-Mar and I published an article on CRE’s Leadership Caucus in The Nonprofit Quarterly.   Read more >>

Monday, February 22, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

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Friday, February 19, 2010 | Comments ((Disabled)) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

by Holly Delany Cole - In the lives of nonprofit leaders, there probably isn’t a day that goes by when something ‘unexpected’ doesn’t happen – some welcome, some that present additional challenges.  These may be matters such as a valuable Board member calling to say they are taking a new job in another city and will be resigning from the board, to a funder calling to say that they will move the consideration of your grant to an earlier (or later) Board meeting, to learning that a building in which you rent space for some programs has been sold and the new landlord wants you out as soon as possible.  This is the world of nonprofit leaders, but there’s evidence that most are pretty good at managing it.   Read more >>

Friday, February 19, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

by Barbara Turk - CRE is currently working with nonprofit organizations that are in various stages of exploring strategic alliances.  These alliances usually take the form of a parent-subsidiary relationship.  In this kind of alliance, one organization assumes decision-making and fiduciary responsibilities for both organizations.  The other organization becomes a subsidiary of the other.    Read more >>

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

By Louisa Hackett - Every year CRE gets dozens of calls from people who want to start a non-profit.  And, every year we hear other people say, there are too many nonprofits already, why do we need another one starting-up? Isn’t there an organization that does that already? Why support a new, untested organization when so many exist already?  And, why establish a new organization now when the economy is so bad and so many existing nonprofits are having a hard time making it.   Read more >>

Thursday, February 11, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

by Richard A. Brown, Vice President, American Express Philanthropy - Today's emerging leaders are the best educated, the most diverse and the most technologically savvy generation in our nation's history. Generation Xers & Yers are committed to serving in the nonprofit sector, are passionate about the mission-driven organizations where they work, and many have been actively serving in the sector as community volunteers since a very young age.  Their commitment to "do something" is evident in the associations they have created to organize themselves, the organizations they have established to tackle intractable social issues, and the hard won achievements they have secured supporting established nonprofit organizations.    Read more >>

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Permalink