Ask the Experts: Vendor/Client Relationships, Part II

You can always view a situation like this from two points of view: the charity’s and the vendor’s. Since I work with a vendor, let’s start there. Our company works exclusively for the nonprofit sector, and we work hard to be part of the nonprofit community. We know the nonprofit sector carefully shepherds its donors’ contributions, and we therefore work for our nonprofit clients on slim profit margins that most self-respecting commercial firms would consider embarrassing.