“Non-profit organization” on The Daily Caller

Non-profit organizations such as the one formerly known as the YMCA are commonly advised to become more like for-profit businesses. Management experts and consultants view them as horribly inefficient due to the absence of the concentrating power of the profit motive. The negative reaction to the Y’s rebranding suggests that non-profit outfits are not all that good at emulating business even when they try. There has been barely any reciprocal pressure on for-profit firms to learn from the non-profits. Yet this is what Nancy Lublin, one of America’s most successful non-profit leaders, proposes in a new book, “Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business.” (more)

Corporations are getting creative in finding ways to receive millions of dollars in federal earmarks, but their creativity is not illegal, tax experts say. (more)

They are the city’s stewards of culture, overseeing intellectual pursuits from Mars to mollusks to Matisse. (more)