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and Cash Flow to Total Debt =
(net income + depreciation expense) / total liabilities
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Heather is an experienced Nonprofit Manager, Researcher, Trainer, and Blogger. She teaches and presents on a variety of topics in the nonprofit sector and she participates on a variety of national nonprofit committees including the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition and Independent Sector's NGen Advisory Committee.
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Nonprofit Leadership 601
In this blog I write about nonprofit leadership, nonprofit careers, the nonprofit workforce, nonprofit technology, and nonprofit management education.
I recently noticed a trend in many nonprofit organizations. The Executive Director/CEO travels around the country and speaks at nonprofit conferences. This is good in theory because it promotes the organization but…what is going on back at the office while the CEO is away? There should be a COO (Chief Operating Officer) or Operations Director [...]
The White House Forum on Nonprofit Leadership is going on today. In attendance at this invitation only event is the who’s who in the nonprofit sector. What’s being said at the Forum is nothing new, we’ve heard it many times by many different speakers at many different conferences, and in many different reports (e.g Daring [...]
X organization is a membership organization, it recently hired a new Executive Director, and also had been contemplating a name change for several years. Many members had voiced their frustrations over the high membership dues and had suggested that the organization improve its member relations efforts. Many members felt they were not getting back what [...]
I love working in the nonprofit sector!! There are many well paid jobs and career opportunities in nonprofit organizations. However…there are certain realities of working in nonprofit organizations that employees must understand in order to sustain a career in the nonprofit sector. The reality is the majority of nonprofits operate with budgets less than $500k; [...]
After taking an action research course this summer from renowned scholar Bill Torbert where we learned to strive for mutuality in our relationships, I was struck by Philantopic’s most recent blog post titled “Women are bright spot Amid Economic Gloom” which spoke of the mutuality embodied by women’s philanthropy. The post stated: The report holds [...]
It is fitting that while pursuing my PhD in Leadership, I am also working for a nonprofit that trains high school women in the San Diego community. On March 1st over 500 young women from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds throughout San Diego County will gather for our Young Women’s Spirit of Leadership Conference. This Conference features [...]
