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FOURTH FUTURE: RENEWAL
October 2, 2009 My fourth scenario focused on a long-overdue renewal. There is nothing like a crisis to focus attention on needed improvement. Mergers and acquisitions can be a sign of desperation or a way to strengthen performance, while downsizing can be a last gasp or a first step toward higher productivity.…
THIRD FUTURE: WINNOWING OF THE SECTOR
October 1, 2009 My third scenario centered on a winnowing of the sector. At one point last fall, I predicted that as many as 100,000 mostly smaller nonprofits would disappear during the recession. This number was based on a simple extrapolation of small-business failure rates during the past two recessions. During the relatively…
SECOND FUTURE: A STEADY WITHERING
September 30, 2009 My second scenario focused on a steady withering of the sector’s general capacity to meet its mission. Virtually every data point from the sector shows this scenario is coming true. It is not clear just how many nonprofit employees are now out of work, but surely the sector accounts for some…
FIRST FUTURE: THE MIRACULOUS RESCUE
September 29, 2009 As the recession deepened following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, I outlined four scenarios facing the sector. There is now enough anecdotal evidence to assign tentative probabilities to each one. My first scenario involved a miraculous rescue of some kind. Perhaps government would step up with an…
ANECDOTES ≠ DATA. AND YET . . .
September 28, 2009 The deepest economic recession of the century may be technically over, at least according to Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, but the jobless recovery it has produced continues take its toll on the nonprofit sector. The good news is that there appears to be less damage thus…
WELCOME . . .
September 15, 2009 Welcome to the new website of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society. And welcome, too, to our new blog, the Intrepid Philanthropist. We’re inviting luminaries from the field—and from outside the field—to guest-blog for us for one week apiece: post five brief essays on a theme or themes…
GLEANINGS
September 15, 2009 Using Joel Fleishman’s book The Foundation: A Great American Secret as his jumping-off point, Mario Morino of Venture Philanthropy Partners writes provocatively about how foundations and nonprofits face a new imperative to become more transparent. Raj Patel, Eric Holt-Gimenez, and Annie Shattuck examine the Gates Foundation’s effort to end hunger in Africa…
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