Volunteers and Non-Profit organization members are a rare commodity. They are hard to find, difficult to screen, expensive to replace/retain and then vanish without warning.

Volunteers and Non-Profit organization members are a rare commodity. They are hard to find, difficult to screen, expensive to replace/retain and then vanish without warning.

As a result of a private research project I am engaged in, I wonder what exactly is the definition of a volunteer, non-profit or a member of a non-profit. There are a few other blogs I wanted to write concerning these things but I kept on coming back to the question, but what exactly is a ….?
Continue readingI recall sitting in a board meeting for a non-profit I was involved with years ago and the budget process came up. Specifically the word ‘budget’ meant to different things to different board members.

In a previous blog, Co-Opetition at 20-Something, I gave myself a memory jog for the book of the same name. One of the reasons I was re-reading this book was to know what the concept has to say about Co-Opetition and Non-Profits [1].
Continue readingIn my ongoing effort to remember what I have read, some notes (aka memory jogs) on the book “Co-Opetition”, by Adam M. Brandenburger, Barry J. Nalebuff [1]. First published in the mid-1990’s, this is not a new book. But, with increasing global competition and the rise of the virtual business place due to COVID, perhaps one that should be revisited.
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