Workplace Culture: We Can Do Better
By Susan Kinney, Senior Consultant, Copley Raff Inc. Yesterday I had the privilege of attending a panel discussion addressing gender bias, sexual harassment, and bullying in the workplace. This session on “changing culture” was hosted and moderated by Jane Doe Inc. and featured Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung and workplace expert Lauren Stiller Rikleen, attorney and author of “The ...
Will Legacy Naming Recognition Become Too Fraught for Organizations?
The mess MIT and Harvard found themselves in by accepting gifts from Jeffery Epstein is a bellwether for things to come. These institutions had the audacity to accept a lot of money from Epstein, with the intent to remain anonymous, and despite this slight-of-hand, the rolling heads hitting the fan could be heard around the world. I would imagine if ...
A Letter to Nonprofit CEOs About Fundraising
Dear Nonprofit CEO, I know your plate is full. You manage your board and staff, have programs to monitor and design, staff vacancies to fill, budgeting and annual planning, and there are always fires to put out - this is the shortlist. It is probably a true statement that your work history that prepared you to lead your organization did ...
Hate-Speech “Sells” in Today’s Politics – Will it Work in Nonprofit Fundraising?
This is a difficult topic to address, but one that has fascinated me for a while. We are witnessing the phenomenon, last seen in the late 1960s during the George Wallace presidential campaign, of robust political fundraising on a messages of hate, divisiveness and demonizing of an entire classes of people. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being contributed during ...
When You Get to a Fork in the Road – Take It
One of Yogi Berra’s famous utterances – When you get to a fork in the road… take it – has always resonated with me because it characterizes the forced choices we have to regularly make in our advancement work. Whether we like it or not, or whether we know it or not, we are constantly faced with forks in the ...
Are You and Your Organization Prepared for the Next Economic Downturn?
I don’t want to throw cold water on your fine day, but it is reasonable to start thinking about the inevitable economic downturn that may be just over the horizon. Markets are cyclical and that means there are regular recessions every seven-ten years. Recent history includes downturns around the 1986 tax reform, the dotcom bust of the late 1990s, 9/11’s ...
