Articles by our Contributors
Is It Time to Recalculate the Costs of Philanthropy?
Against the backdrop of COVID-19, depression level unemployment, and a reenergized movement to address systemic racial and gender inequality, there has been a...
Sisyphus Looks Inward: Nonprofit Short and Long-Term Decision Making Starts with Honest Self-Assessment
This article is the second installment in a series produced for the JMT Consulting Blog. Click the following link to read the first article in the series, "Sisyphus...
Sisyphus Had It Easy: The Case for Nonprofits to Prioritize Long-Term Solutions Even When Short-Term Challenges Abound
Philosophers would contend that Sisyphus had it rough, rolling his rock up a hill only to see it roll back before he reached the top – then doing it all again, over...
The Sustainable Nonprofit Business Model Depends on Mission Independence
The Business Roundtable, an association made up of CEOs from major for-profit corporations, recently announced that their companies plan to invest more attention and...
Nonprofit CFOs Shape their Legacy by Defining and Communicating the Big Picture
You are the CFO of a nonprofit that’s focused on long-term mission fulfillment, financial sustainability, and organizational independence. How do you guarantee that...
The Nonprofit Auditor and Mission-Infused CFO: Building a Strategic Partnership for Success
The role of the nonprofit auditor needs to evolve to become more holistic and mission-integrated if nonprofits are going to succeed in today’s competitive environment.
Meeting in the Mission: the Dynamic Duo of Nonprofit Finance & Development
Imagine a social service organization not yet in dire financial straits but in definite need of a financial course correction to meet its mission and financial goals....
Three Roles of the Mission-Infused Nonprofit CFO that Lead to Organizational Success
As the leader of an organization’s finance function, the nonprofit CFO makes a critical contribution to overall mission success. While this has always been an...
An Unsurprising Revelation—The Nonprofit Business Office is Closely Linked to Mission Success
Why are nonprofit organizations in business? It is to achieve their societal missions. To do that, nonprofits must define their programmatic, financial, fundraising,...
How An Enlightened Finance Team Creates A Culture Of Mission Investment
The enlightened nonprofit finance team is critical to building a nonprofit organizational culture of investment in today’s fast moving, complicated, and competitive...
The Mission-Infused Nonprofit CFO: Aligning Mission & Finance For Success
The nonprofit financial world is changing quickly, and the isolated CFO has been rendered obsolete. The future nonprofit CFO is a mission-infused, proactive leader who...
Financial Donor Transparency: What Inexactly are we Talking About?
While we may understand the political ramifications of nonprofit donor transparency, how does transparency relate to efficiently and effectively running organizations...
Fashion, Beauty, and Status: One Year on the Frontlines of China’s Apparel and Luxury
This article originally appeared in the December 2011 edition of FFR (Focus On Fashion Retail) Magazine. Picture Americans seeking to acquire the latest jeans by Juicy...
Outsourcing the Strategic Financial Function
In an increasingly competitive nonprofit world vying for fewer resources, an organization’s survival and sustainability is largely dependent on its capacity for short...
The Evolution of Human Resources Directors’ Responsibilities
The current economic downturn and subsequent intense organizational financial scrutiny has brought the role of the human resources (HR) director front and center. To...
A Countrywide Non-Profit Call To Action
The current difficult economic times present a unique challenge and opportunity to the once growing non-profit industry in Columbia County. Non-profit organizations...
Nonprofit CFOs: Visionary Protectors of the Bottom Line, or Myopic Bean Counters?
The advent of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) era in nonprofit governance is often interpreted to mean a phalanx of bookkeepers accurately accounting for every organizational...
As Fake Products Spread, ‘Fashion Victim’ Gets New Meaning
The fashion industry takes the lead in thwarting international counterfeiting Imagine that you have created a fashionable handbag out of cutting-edge technical fabric....
Overcoming Frustration In Nonprofit Work
Re: ''A Path Paved in Dreams, Not in Gold'' (Executive Life, July 14), which described how and why for-profit corporate executives sometimes switch to the nonprofit...
When Charity Gets Complicated
To the Editor: Re ''Gifts to Rescuers Divide Survivors'' (front page, Dec. 2): Your description of the difficulties arising from distributing charitable gifts to...
The Arts Needs Its Own Version of Merger Mania
Put two corporate chief executives together at a cocktail party and speculation flies that a merger or acquisition is in the works. Put the heads of two major arts...
The Role Mergers and Acquisitions Can Play In Enabling Nonprofit Arts Organizations and Museums to Survive, Grow, and Prosper
I have been asked to speak to you about the role mergers and acquisitions can play in enabling nonprofit arts organizations—museums, in particular, to survive, grow,...
Nonprofit Sector Needs Professionals
To the Editor: Re: "Woeful '95 Leads U.S. Charities to Introspection" (news article, Dec. 10): I was astounded to read that nonprofit organization leaders are...
Business Schools and Non-Profit Training
To the Editor: In response to Mr. Henry Goldstein's article questioning John C. Whitehead's gift of $10-million to Harvard Business School to study non-profit...
To Save Baseball, Make It Non-Profit
My life took on meaning when the Baltimore Orioles swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1996 World Series. Since that epiphany, the fate of the Orioles, and baseball...
