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A couple of weeks ago, I received a press release about the new Palindrome Advisors group with the subject line, “Redefining the Nonprofit Model.” Doubtless you’re all familiar with the genre: A group of business people get together and decide that the nonprofit sector hasn’t cured cancer or ended poverty because people in the nonprofit [...]
Archive for the ‘NonProfits’ Category
April 18th, 2011
I’m glad that Mike thinks that civilization has returned to the Bay Area. It’s about time. Here in Los Angeles, we have had a superb classical station, an excellent jazz station, two terrific news and general-interest programming stations, and a sort of mix-and-match music-news etc. station for a while. I couldn’t really expect such diversity [...]
April 17th, 2011
Many years ago, the typical public radio station played classical music and some jazz all day, news like Morning Edition and All Things Considered at drive time, some public affairs or newsy features in the early evening, and more music at night. About the time I moved to Berkeley in 1991, public stations started doing [...]
November 19th, 2010
Category: NonProfits
Working together, NY’s government and nonprofits can help maintain the state’s primacy as innovator, incubator and magnet for investment. Here’s how.
August 28th, 2010
The Financial Reform Act surprisingly includes the long-awaited requirement for natural resource companies to publish what they pay to kleptocrats.
January 4th, 2008
Category: NonProfits
You have to feel someone saddled with the name “Holden Karnofsky,” but his conduct ought to (won’t, but ought to) put paid to the notion that the non-profit world ought to be automatically grateful for the attention of refugees from the for-profit world.
October 7th, 2007
Category: NonProfits
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Todd Zywicki points to an article suggesting some “common sense” reforms to the governance of non-profits. Some are indeed “common sense,” but others are not. The one that jumps out at me is: “greater separation of governance from fundraising so that board members are appointed for their expertise and engagement [...]
