My new post on the Mission Connected Blog, “Paying Attention to Turnover in the Nonprofit Sector“, takes a look at the prevalence of, causes of, and potential responses to the costly issue of employee turnover among nonprofit organizations.
I love it when a plan comes together!
During last month’s #socentchat on Twitter, a discussion started among some of us in the New York City area about the idea of getting together in person, to meet, share ideas about social enterprise and social change, and see what might come of it. Tyler Ahn of Ashoka Changemakers took the lead, kept us on track, and has made it a reality!
I hope that everyone in the area with an interest in social enterprise and social change will consider joining us this Thursday, May 6th, anytime after 6:30pm, at the Village Pourhouse (64 Third Avenue at East 11th Street in Manhattan). We’ve got the big back room at our disposal and drink specials until 8:00pm. I look forward to meeting many of you there!
Photo credit: Saucy Salad 
A big thank you to Jackson Wightman for inviting me to contribute a guest post to his blog Proper Propaganda.
My post, “Social? Me?“, details my journey into social media, including my first forays with Facebook, my steep learning curve with Twitter, and my belated blogging beginnings. I’ve included a few lessons learned, and my much bigger list of lessons yet to be learned.
Check it out and let me know what you think. While you’re there, check out Jackson’s, um, unique approach to PR.
I’m honored that my recent post “How to Be A Great Nonprofit Employer” was among the seven selected as the best nonprofit posts of the month in the April Nonprofit Blog Carnival, hosted by Jeff Brooks on his Future Fundraising Now blog.
Is nonprofit hiring starting to heat up in the New York City area? Two dozen positions in this week’s roundup of interesting nonprofit sector job openings in and around New York City from my Twitter stream, clients, network, and other sources.
Continue reading ‘NYC Nonprofit Jobs 5/1/10′
“Managers are commonly ill-equipped to understand the dynamics of their compensation costs, never mind monitor and control them.”
I was struck by this statement by Chuck Csizmar in a recent post on the Compensation Cafe blog. Chuck was making a case for companies to focus on the return on investment (ROI) for employee compensation, and he went on to discuss the reasons for and consequences of managers making poor compensation decisions.
I have to agree with Chuck about managers’ abilities in this area, as this phenomenon is at the heart of a challenge I have repeatedly faced when working with nonprofit organizations to overhaul and improve their compensation practices. But, rather than ruing the fact that managers lack these skills and looking for ways improve them, I suggest that there is no real need for the vast majority of managers to develop them in the first place.
Continue reading ‘The Buck Stops Where?’
Delighted that my recent post “Human Resources Maturity and the Three P’s” on the Mission Connected Blog was included in the 4/28 Carnival of HR, which “features recent posts from the best of the HR and management blogging community”!
My new post on the Mission Connected Blog, “A Look at Nonprofit IT Staffing“, considers current factors and trends in hiring information technology professionals, and offers advice for nonprofit employers as they address their IT staffing needs.
Here’s this week’s roundup of interesting nonprofit sector jobs in and around New York City from my Twitter stream, clients, network, and other sources:
Continue reading ‘NYC Nonprofit Jobs – 4/24/10′
Much conversation and debate in the nonprofit and philanthropic communities these days revolves around how to determine which organizations are the “best”. Fortunately, there seems to be a consensus away from basing such determinations on measures such as overhead ratio and administrative expenses and towards evaluation of impact — but that’s a topic for another day and post.
Employee opinions offer another perspective on a nonprofit’s quality.
Another perspective on a nonprofit’s quality can be found in the opinions of the organization’s employees. A recent study by the NonProfit Times and Best Companies Group used such opinions as the primary basis for identifying the “50 best nonprofits to work for in 2010″.
In the study, employee’s responses to a written survey accounted for 75% of each organization’s score. The remaining 25% was based on assessment of the organization’s benefit offerings and other practices, using a proprietary methodology.
Continue reading ‘How to Be a Great Nonprofit Employer’
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