
Executive Issues

Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Tyler Cashman, Fundraiser of the Year. For most fundraisers, conceptualizing, implementing and coordinating a new program, especially one dependent upon volunteers, is a difficult task. But Tyler Cashman is no ordinary fundraiser. He’s a seventh grader...
Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Alex Goldsmith, Board Member of the Year. As head of strategy for Macquarie Investment Management, a global fund management company, Alex Goldsmith knows a thing or two about business. o it’s no surprise that, as a board member for The HOPE Program, he provided essential leadership and business expertise...
Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Rebecca Bond, Executive of the Year. The gun debate in America is a contentious one. For the most part, the pro and anti crowds are locked in a stalemate, neither side willing to concede ground to the other. Compromise is rare. Rebecca Bond wants to change all that...
Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Jo Ann Remender, Lifetime Achievement. How do you distill a lifetime of unparalleled accomplishments into 350 words? It’s not easy, and it’s even harder when you’re working with a resume like that of Jo Ann Remender. Let’s start with the numbers...
Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Alison Silberman, Nonprofit Professional of the Year. When Alison Silberman took over as director of field engagement for Ovarian Cancer Research Fund in 2012, tasked with overseeing the STS program, it was a big deal for the health-care nonprofit, and for Silberman. The program’s future was in her hands...
Girl Scouts of the USA has appointed Sylvia Acevedo as interim CEO following Anna Maria Chavez’s departure. Chavez, who has been in her role since 2011, will depart June 30 to return to public service...
Like your donors, you want as much of your nonprofit's funds to go directly to the cause it supports. However, you also know that there are a lot of administrative and operational costs involved in your organization, and those can add up. So how do the most successful nonprofit organizations manage to keep their overhead to a minimum without…
The beloved and I were meeting recently over dinner with Robert, (not his real name) a fundraising executive with one of the top 20 health care nonprofits. Robert had been in this particular position for only four months, and was telling me about the challenges he is facing navigating the organizational chart to get things done...
How is it good in the context of nonprofit fundraising, marketing and management? How do you know you’re changing in the right direction? And at the right time? I'm a firm believer in challenging the status quo, as long as that does not ipso facto mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater...
Charitable giving topped $373 billion in 2015, a 4 percent increase over 2014, according to "Giving USA 2016," the annual report published by Giving USA Foundation and produced by Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The giving totals are the highest ever recorded for a single year. Don't have time to dig into the full report? No worries. We've compiled some of the highlights...