America SCORES LA, full disclosure they’re a client, participates in a great program that brings musicians and songwriters into elementary and middle school classrooms in inner city public schools. Students work with artists to write, compose and produce original songs. The ASCAP program is a great adjunct to the poetry writing that is a large [...]

Loved this commercial made by the Best Friends Animal Society, a non-profit animal welfare organization based in Utah. While the ASPCA ad with Melissa Etheridge singing, or the one with Willie Nelson singing are effective because they are so heartbreaking, this one takes a positive approach and I think it’s brilliant. http://www.bestfriends.org/homefortheholidays/

This post is a small brag.  In August, I worked with a team of senior staff at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) on a grant application for $10 million in health information technology to create a medical home model for patients with schizophrenia. Last month HHC found out they will receive [...]

“Lawmakers seeking cuts look at nonprofit salaries” How much should nonprofit CEO’s be paid? It’s a question that comes up when the Chronicle of Philanthropy publishes its annual salary information, and occasionally when Congressmen want to appear to “crack down” on organizations that provide services to the public. Most recently, it was covered in the [...]