Spring 2010 – Digital Issue

Renewal

Spring 2010: Volume 17, Issue 1

Features

• Welcome
  
  
• The Nonprofit Ethicist
  An employee questions her organization’s fuzzy math. by Woods Bowman
  
  
• When a Donor Becomes Tainted
  When a donor becomes embroiled in scandal, how should a nonprofit respond? by Paul Dunn, Ph.D.
  
  
• Visual Rhetoric: The Powerful Design of Nonprofit Campaigns— An Interview with Peleg Top and Jonathan Cleveland
  How can powerful marketing strengthen an organization’s impact? by the editors
  
  
• The Four Horsemen of the Nonprofit Financial Apocalypse
  What “preexisting conditions” may have weakened your organization going into the recession, and what to do about it now? by Clara Miller
  
  
• The Problem of Solo Civic Engagement: An Interview with Doug McAdam
  Does Teach for America produce more civic engagement from its graduates? by Cynthia Gibson, Ph.D.
  
  
• The State of the States
  The states are still neck deep in economic crisis, and the federal stimulus money will soon run out. by Rick Cohen
  
  
• The Way We Write Is All Wrong: Fixing the Broken Discourse of Fundraising
  Fundraising tactics suffer from a serious disconnect between theory and practice. by Frank C. Dickerson, Ph.D.

Special Supplement

• NPQ’s 2010 National Nonprofit Management Education Directory

Departments

• Dr. Conflict
  Dr. Conflict guides an employee on a major human-resources mess. by Mark Light
  
  
• Nonprofits and Metaphors: Using Language to Create Better Outcomes
  Our use of certain metaphors to understand the financial crisis may doom already-weak nonprofits. by Scott Anderson

Satire

• Fifteen Questions to Certify That You Are a Social Innovator
  How high do you rank as a social innovator? Take this fun quiz to find out. by Phil Anthrop