Posted by: Eric Streiff
This past weekend I was doing a lot of thinking on the long road from Saint Louis to Chicago – five full hours of blissful thinking time – and I was thinking back to a previous blog post regarding how nonprofits need to focus more on the changed lives and the impact they are making in the world and less on the financials.
More precisely, I was lamenting how many people in the nonprofit field don’t “measure” the success ...
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The simple fact is that most people tend to support winners. Organizations that handle the funds they receive in the most effective, honest, and efficient way seem to perform better then those that don’t. You can’t overlook this fact.
People will always turn towards the tried and true organizations they can trust – organizations that use funds well (fiscally responsible organizations that spend money well), make an impact in the community they serve (change lives/make a positive impact), and do so ...
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Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal the other day - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122963299671419401.html
This article jumped off the page for me. I raised the issue in a blog post awhile back in May of 2008 -
see…. http://oculusdirect.com/blog/2008/05/
To see this article raise this issue means a great deal to me and should to you as well. The nonprofit sector can no longer be complacent – especially, regarding how we are measured not just by ourselves but our donors and ...
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I am sure you are just as appalled as I am with regard to the Madoff scandal, Ponzi Scheme, swindle or whatever you want to call it. But no matter what you call it there seems to be change in the wind – not just on Wall Street but also in how we live our lives and what we should consider important.
How can we see so much wealth, or presumed wealth, evaporate into thin air. Where did it go? Were ...
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