How To Organize Your Workweek

It’s the first week back from holidays and if you’re like me and many other workers, you spent much of the week trying to remember how to type and wondering why there were no more Christmas cookies in the office. If you’re a fan of New Years Resolutions, perhaps one is to be more productive at work.  A December, 2015 article published on New York Magazine’s Science of Us column references an email from Googler ...

Six Reasons To Add Millennials To Your Board

Six Reasons To Add Millennials To Your Board

What’s your board make-up?  If you’re like my organization, our board is composed of over 40 year-olds (the average age is probably around 65), higher level business executives, and white.  It mirrors the population that we attract and, despite the lack of diversity, is a really great, active board. We do have minorities on the board, however we have no member under 40 on the board.  In a November, 2014 post, Colleen Dilen highlighted Six Urgent Reasons ...

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Your Donation, Should You Choose To Accept It

The non-profit sector is getting more organized and sophisticated about fundraising and general solicitation of support through vehicles like Kickstarter and Giving Tuesday. At the same time, there has also been increased scrutiny of donations based on the character of the person or company making the donation or the conditions attached to the money. It becomes increasingly important for non-profit organizations to have a gift acceptance policy. Not just to insulate the organization from an ...