by Holly Delany Cole - A recent report by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Ph.D. and Cameron Smith, funded by the Philanthropic Collaborative, found that Foundations responded in “a targeted and timely manner”, with grants appropriately directed to recession relief to the hardest-hit parts of the country. Read more >>
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A blog for those interested in what effects, motivates and drives the New York City Nonprofit Sector — written by CRE’s crackerjack consulting team. We hope you use this space to share your thoughts, ask questions and engage in conversations about our city, social justice and the nonprofit sector.
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Evidence of Doing Good
by Louisa Hackett - For those of us trying to make the world a better place, figuring out a way to study, understand and assess the interventions we make is critical to improving the work we do. Read more >>
Is Your Agency (or Grantee) Starved for Data?
By Barbara Blumenthal - Funders dream about collecting data from agencies that will answer important questions about participant progress and agency performance. Read more >>
Paying the Piper or Capacity Costs
by Valyrie Laedlein - Today I feel compelled to use this forum as a soap box -- to express my dismay with what seems an incongruous set of assumptions that are embedded in a critically important program being launched by our Federal government – assumptions which should concern all nonprofits. Read more >>
Capacity Building for Advocacy
By Valyrie Laedlein As reported in a Stanford Social Innovation Review blog post, the National Committee of Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) recently published a report demonstrating the huge impact that foundations can make by investing in advocacy, community organizing and civic engagement. How to build the capacity of community organizations to engage in advocacy was the topic of an inquiry that Community Resource Exchange was asked to undertake by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Read more >>
Are You a T-Shaped Manager?
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 >>
The Importance of Community Within the Board Room
By Valyrie Laedlein - In any setting, what is it that compels hard work, extension of self, high performance, commitment of time? Read more >>
Does Competition Make Sense for Nonprofits?
by Louisa Hackett - In the for-profit sector, competition is touted as the means for creating efficient and effective organizations. Read more >>
Handling the Unexpected
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 >>
Tips on Strategic Alliances
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 >>
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