What’s the hottest new company in Silicon Valley right now? Answer: Zynga. Online gaming has taken off like crazy. The buzz is everywhere. I hear it among entrepreneurs, investors and even academia, but what about the social and public sectors? Once again, somehow we’re missing the party... (continue reading this blog post)
One of the biggest frustrations that young nonprofit professionals have is that there is no linear career path in the nonprofit sector. There is no clear journey to a promotion like there is in, say, the legal profession. You go to law school, you get a job at a firm, you work your ass off and you move up the ladder from junior attorney, senior attorney, then partner... (continue reading this blog post)
Grit, as defined by Webster’s Dictionary, is a “firmness of mind or spirit, unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger”. Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson or the movie The Red Balloon were the stories of my childhood that got to the essence of “grit”. Recent movies like Life Is Beautiful, Shawshank Redemption and Slumdog Millionaire are examples of modern stories that outline that grit is still popular… (continue reading this blog post)
Despite my many years of stridently stressing the importance of outcomes and assessment for nonprofits, I have grown increasingly worried that the vast majority of outcomes efforts will yield, at best, marginal benefit.
Granted, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and a few others have keenly focused on the challenge of social outcomes and have dealt with them well. Yet many other efforts may end up misdirecting, even wasting, precious time and financial resources… (continue reading this blog post)
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