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Mapping NTEN

Over the next few days, I will be attending the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference, and with any luck, I’ll be blogging about the conference regularly over at With, my new Author's Network blog. As befits that blog and the essential nature of a conference, I’ll be focusing on the theme of connection. To kick that off, I sought the help of Richard Rogers of Govcom.org and the Issue Crawler tool and started Mapping NTEN. While this by no means represents the entire universe of NTEN’s organizational network, it’s a snapshop of the kinds of connections that are revealed from the online connections between NTEN members. Posted: 4/2/07; 1:21:02 PM #

Long Hours, Low Pay Turn Off Young Nonprofit Workers, Study Finds

Caroline Preston covers the recent Young Nonprofit Professionals Conference and reports on the groups recent study, which finds that Long Hours, Low Pay Turn Off Young Nonprofit Workers. More than 70 of young professionals surveyed say they never expect to serve as an executive director and more than half don't think their next job will be in the nonprofit sector. The most painful quote from the conference: "All I do is fund raise." Posted: 4/2/07; 12:32:59 PM #

Arundhati Roy on India's Growing Violence, Movements, NGOs
	I am a passionate fan of Arundhati Roy. I appreciate her recent insights on the connections between India's Growing Violence, Movements, and NGOs. Posted: 4/2/07; 12:28:04 PM #

How the Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel

I'm always on the search for those stories and analyses that show how deeply connected much of the disparate work of civil society organizations actually is. In How the Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel, Chip Ward, who just retired as the assistant director of the Salt Lake City Public Library System, paints a vivid portrait of how urban public libraries have become the daytime service centers for some of the neediest people in the country. Posted: 4/2/07; 12:26:03 PM #