How to Hire a Consultant
Reposted from my guest blog on Rooflines. Did you ever feel like you need a consultant to help you figure out what you need your consultant to do? Believe me, you are not alone. As a recovering...
View ArticleThe Complexification of the Nonprofit Sector
This post also available on Rooflines. “Substrate” by Jared Tarbell Intuitively, just from being around the nonprofit sector for a stretch, it’s easy to tell that things have gotten more, well,...
View ArticleDisaster and Recovery – Part II
The Great Wave off Kanagawa: Katsushika Hokusai Shortly after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast, I was dispatched to New Orleans by the corporate foundation that I worked for to figure out...
View ArticleThe (In)Efficiencies of Scale
When scale goes wrong. Catsonholiday / Instagram ArtsBlog (the blog of Americans for the Arts) recently hosted a forum called: “So, Does Size Matter?” The short answer is hell yes it does, but I...
View ArticleLet’s Turn this Old Barn into a Theater! (Part I of III)
Scrappy, but lovable: the irrepressible arts. Dear Reader, About a year ago the Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCD) working group asked your Man About Town to write a nice, juicy case study...
View ArticleLet’s Turn this Old Barn into a Theater! (Part III of III)
Big Car in Indianapolis, IN is a former auto service center. Dear Reader, About a year ago the Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCD) working group asked your Man About Town to write a nice,...
View ArticleAre You TED Talk Ready? The Importance of Conceptual Capital
It used to just take two. Those days are over. In the callow youth of the nonprofit sector, you needed two kinds of capital: (1) financial capital, because money does, after all, grease the wheels of...
View Article#OMG: Why the #NPO sector is #tech averse
I’d be lion if I said I wasn’t surprised. So I was talking to a friend of mine at a very large nonprofit organization – as in over $100 million in annual revenues. They serve thousands of clients...
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