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CultureFlash: The Plights of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee (9/6/16)

Written by Fractured Atlas | September 7, 2016

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The Plights of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee.

These responses expose a gap between the values that many nonprofits hold and the way they treat their own staffs. There’s no doubt that nonprofits today face serious financial difficulties and constraints, but do they have no choice but to demand long, unpaid hours of their employees?

Grantee Inclusion: A Step Towards Mutual Accountability?

Grantee inclusion […] is a small solution for a larger problem of unbalanced accountability between the two parties. Authentic inclusion deepens relationships and enriches foundation strategy; I am a witness. However, strong, effective relationships are generally rooted in mutual accountability.

Using Data to Strengthen Your Connections to Customers.

There is a way to use customer insight data to strengthen, rather than weaken, connections to customers. We’ve observed businesses make big improvements when they strike a balance between the creativity of their people and the science of sales.

Activists Protest Swizz Beatz’s Art Fair in the Bronx.

Rapper and record producer Kasseem ‘Swizz Beatz’ Dean […] staged an art fair in the Bronx. According to Remezcla, the event, titled No Commission […] Dean’s plans, however were mired in controversy […] only about a third of the participants had significant connections to the borough, and no Latino artists were included.