Yes, It’s Political
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“What can technologists do to fix the problems facing the nonprofit world?” The question hung in the air for a while. The setting was a recent “hackathon,” an on-line, national…
Read More Phony and Corrupt
There is so much that is good about the charitable world. But simply calling something “charitable” does not make it worthy. Which brings me to two troubling and destabilizing trends:…
Read More Partial Score
The late comedian George Carlin had a shtick back in the 1970s where he played a television sports anchor. With mock seriousness, he’d stare at the camera and say, “Here’s…
Read More Friends Don’t Let Friends Start Nonprofits
I’m often approached by people asking for advice on creating a new nonprofit. My response, inevitably: Don’t do it! I say this not because I question the power of nonprofits…
Read More Fidelity Charitable Reveals Its Arrogance, But Not Its Salaries
[Note: This post was published in the December 1, 2015 on-line edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy.] It’s common knowledge that transparency rules the day for disclosure of the salaries…
Read More Getting Paid — Part III (The Final Chapter… For Now)
[Note: Raising the issue of excessive CEO salaries prompted a lot of comments from readers, most off-line, and additional posts from me. But here are my final words on the…
Read More Getting Something for Nothing
Sometimes relatively insignificant measures can assume an absurdly disproportionate importance. For decades U.S. News and World Reports has been ranking the country’s top universities and colleges. These rankings have taken…
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