Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.
The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to be used, so having a company that makes the chemistry kit that anybody can use can save time.
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.
Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U. S. Department of Commerce.
