February 18, 2010
After graduating from the Kennedy School in 2001, Kristin Ehrgood moved to Puerto Rico with her (now) husband, Vadim Nikitine, with the ambition to set up a Teach for America–like program. She had spent 10 years
Category: Civic Engagement
February 17, 2010
Two years ago, Mladen Jovanović, one of three founders of PROTECTA, a Serbian NGO, took my online executive program on strategic frameworks for NGO leaders. His analysis of the organization’s strategic challenges reflected the mission
February 16, 2010
Many university community involvement programs and outreach programs represent the problem I suggested in my first installment, in that they represent much more supply push than demand pull. The theme of this engagement has been at
February 15, 2010
In this series of blogs, I’m going to discuss the problem of the lack of balance in funding service-providing nonprofits and funding those that engage not only in some sort of advocacy, but actively organize constituencies to
February 2, 2010
Yesterday Clara Miller, president and CEO of the New York City-based Nonprofit Finance Fund, posted a lengthy comment on last Tuesday’s Intrepid Philanthropist post by Michael Edwards, and this morning Mr. Edwards posted a lengthy
February 2, 2010
The five-year anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are coming up this fall, and to mark the occasion more than 30 organization are gathering in New Orleans next month at a conference called Katrina @ 5: Partners