Transforming How the Nation Fights Crime
When he went to the nation’s capital, John A. Calhoun thought he would spend two or three years there, just long enough to do some work for President Jimmy Carter. He ended up spending nearly three decades in Washington. Now Mr. Calhoun, 64, is getting ready to leave his job as head of the National…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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More charities offer benefits to employees’ unmarried partners After 13 years, Anne Wright and Eric Segal had been together longer than many married couples. Despite their commitment, they had decided not to tie the knot in solidarity with their gay and lesbian friends, who have long been legally…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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Tips for Creating Livelier, More Productive Board and Staff Meetings
Let Becky Christianson count the ways in which well-intentioned nonprofit meetings can go so terribly wrong. For example, she says, “There’s having the wrong physical arrangement for a room. I mean, it’s hard to discuss something with the back of somebody else’s head.” Or not being given a chance…
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Career Activist Brings Civil-Rights Passion to Community Fund
For more than 20 years, Antonia Hernández has been fighting to protect the rights of Mexican- Americans. Now she is about to leave behind the day-to-day legal and advocacy battles she waged as head of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and become head of the California…
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Group’s New Head Aims to Expand Reach of Female Journalists
Lisa Woll’s day jobs have mostly been at big nonprofit groups that operate on a national or international scale, but she has devoted her free time in the past decade to building a small charity to help impoverished women in Washington. Her newest day job combines both worlds. As head of the…
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New CEO Dives Into Big Project to Clean Up World’s Oceans
Andrew Sharpless has always used the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina to mark important occasions in his life. He got married there, goes back on vacations, and recently took his children there in advance of another major transition, one that will force him to wade out a little further…
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A Guide to Resources for Seeking Jobs in Foreign Countries
JOB MARKET By Jeffrey Klineman In addition to Philanthropy Careers’ job listings, many other resources are available ALSO SEE:Tips for Building an International Career in Charities for the international nonprofit-job hunter. Job Listings Dev-Zone. This site, focused on international development and…
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Tips for Building an International Career in Charities
JOB MARKET By Jeffrey Klineman It’s an unsolvable puzzle: For job seekers to get hired by a nonprofit organization abroad, ALSO SEE:A Guide to Resources for Seeking Jobs in Foreign Countries they’ve got to have overseas experience. But where do they get that experience? By working overseas. It can…
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New Zoo Chief Hopes to Lure More Humans to See the Animals
When Willie B., Zoo Atlanta’s world-famous 41-year-old gorilla, died three years ago, he was so beloved that his obituary made the local newspaper’s front page. The gorilla had come a long way: from Cameroon to a small cage in the city’s old Municipal Zoo, and then finally, in the 1980s, he was…
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Nonprofit Leaders Suggest the Best Ways to Help Colleagues Succeed
IN THE TRENCHES By Jeffrey Klineman It was a bittersweet phone call for Jan Masaoka. As the executive director of CompassPoint, a nonprofit management consulting group in San Francisco, Ms. Masaoka had recently finished working with a local nonprofit organization. Now someone from the group called…
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