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...perky Food Network host's empire includes a magazine, a talk show and a nonprofit group. Her latest book, Yum-O! The Family Cookbook, comes out April 29. Rachael Ray will now take your questions...
...host of Harvard professors, Kennedy School fellows, and nonprofit leaders gathered yesterday in the Hauser Center to discuss the difficulties of managing a nonprofit organization. The event, entitled “Tensions and Trade-Offs for Nonprofit Leaders,” was led by visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy Alnoor S. Ebrahim. Ebrahim, a professor at Virginia Tech, explored the relationship between external accountability—the obligation nonprofits feel to report data to their funders—and internal learning—the usefulness of data within the organization. Ebrahim, who drew on his recent research in Washington...
...resources into child protective services. In 2006, following several headline-grabbing stories of deaths of children in abusive environments, the legislature approved additional funds for investigative caseworkers, but critics say it has not been enough. Additional conservatorship caseworkers are needed, according to Rebecca Lightsey, director of Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit social justice organization. The nationwide average is 25 children per caseworker, the Texas ratio is 43 to every one caseworker, Lightsey says, and more foster care is needed. To that end, TDFPS has set up a web page that lists all the ways the public and volunteer groups can help...
...animals of peace. They live communally, enjoy gender equality and, when disputes occur, resolve their differences through sex--straight sex, gay sex and sometimes, when different bonobo troops cross paths, group sex. "Their basic disposition is compassionate," says Sally Coxe, president and a co-founder of the Washington-based nonprofit group Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI), who is guiding our trip...
...their heart and minds and hopefully some of their dollars.” McGovern, a professor of management practice, was selected from a pool of 170 possible candidates, 20 of whom received interviews. McGovern will be replacing Mary S. Elcano, the acting president. Elcano took the helm of the nonprofit after the previous president, Mark W. Everson, resigned after his affair with a subordinate was brought to the board’s attention. Previously, McGovern has played leading roles in large companies, including AT&T and Fidelity Investments. McGovern joined Fidelity Investments in 1999, rising through the ranks to become...