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    Rolling Up Our Sleeves to Get the Hard Work Done!
    I am so grateful to have the opportunity to work in the nonprofit sector.  I am even more thankful to have this chance to work with so many people from different fields and with diverse passions working as hard as they can to fight the toughest problems.  With the Standards for Excellence Institute, we work […]
    Keeping Your Work Ethical, Accountable, and Above Board
     Recent news about the bankruptcy filing at Baltimore Behavioral Health Center is a startling and disturbing example of what can go wrong when nonprofits don’t do all that they can to keep their work ethical, accountable, and above board. The story reads like a “how to get your name in the paper” manual: allegations like […]
    Is it time to consider telecommuting for your nonprofit? by Amanda Mummert
    With super storms crashing through the region, hurricane season just behind us, and winter looming ahead, it occurred to me how much productivity an organization could gain if their staff worked from home. What if employees were already telecommuting when a physical office closed due to snow or power outage? What if the groundwork was […]
    My Top 3 Reasons for Standards for Excellence
    My Top 3 Reasons for Standards for Excellence by Maria Carrasquillo, MJH Consulting Last month, I was one of many who have been certified as a Licensed Consultant with the Standards for Excellence Institute (SFX). The three-day training was informative, intriguing, and invigorating. For many, many years, my eyes have been following this program and, […]
    Encouraging Excellence
    By: Greg Cantori, President & CEO, Maryland Nonprofits and the Standards for Excellence Institute Last month I had the pleasure of welcoming the 2012 class of Licensed Consultants to Baltimore for three days of extensive training in how to work with organizations seeking to implement the Standards for Excellence® code.  Planning my remarks, I decided to tell […]
    Nonprofit Fundraising Expenses Under Scrutiny
    Cartoon Credit In July 2012, Sally Patterson then Interim President & CEO of the Standards for Excellence Institute and Maryland Nonprofits was interviewed by Joce Sterman of ABC2 News about nonprofit organizations that claim zero fundraising expenses. But in this Chronicle of Philanthropy article entitled, “Nonprofit Inquiry Thrusts Fundraising Costs into the Spotlight,” Suzanne Perry […]
    Gifts with Strings and Friends in Low Places
    Garth Brooks sings about his less-than-reputable buddies in his popular country song, “Friends in Low Places.” It is hard to determine whose reputation appeared more sullied in Mr. Brooks’ recent headlining activities – himself or the nonprofit hospital which he sued for apparently not following his wishes. Recently, a jury in Oklahoma ordered the Integris […]
    Celebrating and Deliberating over Right versus Right Decisions
    The ethics field lost a giant last week when Rushworth Kidder, President and Founder of the Institute for Global Ethics in Rockport, Maine passed way in Naples, Florida. While I am sorry to say that I never personally met Rush, I was an avid reader of his publications and works and I often cited a […]
    Public media, ethics and integrity
    I had a pang of sadness and nostalgia recently when I read that the Helena Rubinstein Foundation would soon be closing its doors and ceasing operations.  You see, growing up in the seventies in suburban New Jersey, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation was the one and only foundation that ever crossed my conscientious because Helen Rubinstein […]
    When is a brother not a family member?
    The Boston Globe (Khazei OK’d hiring brother at nonprofit, 8/22/2011) reported that Democratic primary Senate candidate Alan Khazei, former president and chief executive officer of the nonprofit, Be the Change, approved a consulting contract for his brother, Lance Khazei, a Hollywood writer, for his Be the Change work on media strategy.  According to the article, […]
      
     
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