Winter 2010 – Digital Issue

Capacity Building for What?

Winter 2010: Volume 17, Issue 4

Departments

• Welcome
• The Nonprofit Ethicist
  An inebriated executive director takes things too far with a staff member, and more. by Woods Bowman
• Nonprofit Capacity Building for What?
  Are the capacity-building needs of nonprofit organizations changing? A discussion with 60 consultants indicates some shifts. by Ruth McCambridge
• Driving Social Change
  How do societies enact lasting change and protect social change from the inevitable backlash? by Paul C. Light, Ph.D.
• IT Workers: Shedding the City-upon-the-Hill Model
  If IT departments want to remain relevant, they have to open their doors to new tactics and ways of working. by Holly Ross
• A Community Fights Back: A Merger in Humboldt County
  A recent flap with Easter Seals unearths some enduring issues of disenfranchisement and constituency neglect in rural areas. by Rick Cohen
• Finding a New Tune: How Arts Organizations Balance Creativity and Operations
  Arts organizations are struggling to tread water operationally without sapping creative energy. by Corbett Barklie
• You Don’t Need an Empire to Build Strength for Change
  Four organizations illustrate that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. by Deborah Linnell
• WikiLeaks: A Small NGO on a Global Stage
  Is WikiLeaks a renegade nonprofit in search of truth or an irresponsible group of “hackers” that has exploited the Web? by the editors
• Evolution—Not Revolution— Is the Course of Online Giving
  The Web has become a key feature of the modern-philanthropy equation. by Steve Boland
• Reframing Governance
  Most substantive decisions aren’t made in nonprofit boardrooms, but governance models haven’t caught up with this reality. by David O. Renz, Ph.D.
• Dr. Conflict
  A staff member is caught between the belief in doing what is right and a stubborn board. by Mark Light