December 28, 2011

 Twitter for nonprofit jobs

Director For Development
Newark, NJ

Click Here To See Complete Description and To Apply

 

A dozen celebrities representing as many charities have one month to raise as much money as they can with an ultimate prize of winning $25,000. But the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, launched by Crowdrise and Mozilla, isn’t limited to the 12 celebrities.

Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the open source web browser Firefox, started each celebrity-charity team off with a $5,000 donation.

The team that raises the most money on Crowdrise.com by Jan. 12, 2012 will win the $25,000 prize for their charity.

As high-minded as workforce diversity is, it does come with its own problems, as highlighted by Martin N. Davidson in his book “The End of Diversity As We Know It.”

Davidson, who has served as diversity officer at the University of Virginia and has consulted with many companies on the issue, maintains that diversity is a good idea but that current approaches to it are failing.

Patient: “Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do that.”

Doctor: “So, don’t do that.”

Nonprofit leaders know what they have to do to prosper: They need to keep raising a lot of money.

And, they know what they have to do to keep raising money: What they have been doing, only better (that is, making more money), mostly by doing better (that is making more money) online.

A baseball team can do many things, but scoring a touchdown or getting an empty-net goal won’t be among them.

There are teams, and there are teams, and in his book “Collaborative Intelligence” J. Richard Hackman asserts there are various types of teams and anyone forming workplace teams should decide first the type of team it needs.