By Leonard Glickman
Chief Executive Officer
FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds
For those of you who read blogs about philanthropy and charity (you’re reading this, aren’t you?), maybe, like me, you’ve been struck by a few of the articles about altruism and giving and human biology. Since we are deep in the middle of the “Giving Season,” I decided to look further into this subject and see whether giving is indeed a unique human trait.
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By Leonard Glickman
Chief Executive Officer
FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be” is a well-known early seventeenth century sound bite (from Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Polonius’ advice to his son, Laertes). Yet sound bites or one-sentence quotes found in cute management books are no way to manage a twenty-first century organization.
Financial management of nonprofits has grown into a complex field requiring sophisticated expertise and, if one will excuse another borrowed idea from Hamlet, certain methods to what may well seem like madness. After all, nonprofit organizations are expected to be run as well as any successful for-profit enterprise.
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