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- Oooh thanks! I used to work on a political campaign, and we had tons of volunteers that seemed to manage themselves... so it was very weird to move to the non-profit sector and find my employers don't even use volunteers, because they're considered uBy
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(cash & equivs * 365) / (total expenses - depreciation expense)
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’ve been a part of many national committees aimed at improving leadership in the sector. First there was the Nonprofit Congress’s Leadership Working Group. As a committee we worked with a consultant to develop a booklet titled Work with Me: Intergenerational Conversations in Nonprofit Leadership. Unfortunately the committee dissolved along with the Nonprofit Congress. Then [...]
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 [...]
During the Independent Sector Conference the NGen fellows reported that we (the next generation of nonprofit leaders) have trouble identifying under 40 leaders that are creating social change in the sector. The fellows encouraged us to rethink how we view leaders and leadership. There are many different ways of viewing leadership and how people create [...]
Often people are thrown into supervisory roles without realizing how much work and interpersonal skills are really needed to manage people! Most employees want a boss who will be responsive, understand different working styles, and provide feedback on a regular basis (e.g. tell employees how they are doing and how they should improve). Employees also [...]
From the Independent Sector: The new American Express NGen Fellows Program will offer 12 under-40 professionals from Independent Sector member organizations a rare opportunity to magnify their impact and accelerate their careers. Based on the recognition that the leaders we need tomorrow are poised to contribute today, this program will build the capacity of emerging [...]
This months nonprofit blog carnival focuses on nonprofit leadership. With nonprofit leaders struggling to make the right decisions for their organizations, (e.g. budget cuts, mergers, close dissalution, or alternative funding sources) this month’s carnival submissions provide key insights and solutions for leading nonprofits during these tough times and ways to look to the future for [...]
From the Independent Sector: Are you an accomplished young professional already serving as a nonprofit leader? Are you ready to magnify your impact through dynamic collaboration with your peers? Recognizing that the leaders we need tomorrow are poised to contribute today, Independent Sector is pleased to introduce the American Express NGen Fellows Program. This exciting [...]
My statistics professor recently discovered word clouds as a way to present qualitative research data. Some of the techies in the class showed him examples of how word clouds are used all over the net. In fact, I discovered the website Wordle where you can create your own word cloud from any website or any [...]
I was on a conference call for the Next Generation Leadership Forum, a coalition of many US nonprofit infrastructure organizations (Idealist, CompassPoint, NCN, BoardSource, GVSU, YNPN and more) all passionate about nonprofit leadership resources and research in the sector. One person on the call mentioned: Have you seen the most recent Nonprofit Quarterly where David [...]
Sadly, Darian Rodriguez Heyman Executive Director of the Craigslist Foundation is moving on. For those of you that don’t know about the Craigslist Foundation–it is an amazing organization that “creates community in the nonprofit arena by ‘helping people help’, regardless of cause or sector.” Craigslist Foundation serves many people entering the sector by “educating and [...]
