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December 16, 2003

Volume 1/Number 1

Welcome to the first issue of Enhance, a quarterly newsletter brought to you by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management as a benefit of membership.  We hope it will help you "Enhance" your practice!

In This Issue

FEATURED STORY

Beyond Numbers and Compliance: Valuing Cultural Diversity in National Nonprofit Capacity-Building Organizations

Catalina Vallejos Bartlett

The nonprofit sector and society as a whole are debating affirmative action, finding ways to address diversity in the workplace, exploring definitions and approaches for cultural competency in capacity building. Legal and political realities steer most organizations in the direction of avoiding overt discrimination and even proclaiming the value of cultural diversity.  Read More >>

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

VAsakuraVicki Asakura, Director, Nonprofit Assistance Center

Fresh out of college, Vicki Asakura was still immersed in community organizing when the bottom fell out for many of Seattle's Japanese American and other Asian refugee and immigrant families.  Many had relied on work in large manufacturing operations such as Boeing's to be self-sufficient.  As a wave of layoffs came, they found for the first time a major need for services.  Read More>>

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

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Brian Fraser, Founder/Imagineer/Provocateur, Jazzthink Consulting

Brian Fraser brings to his consulting and coaching business 30 years of experience as an executive educator and organizational historian, with a focus on cultural leadership and change. Much of his work has been with the nonprofit organization Peter Drucker calls the most effective nonprofit in Western history the church.  Read More >>

NUTS & BOLTS

PRICING FOR NONPROFIT CONSULTANTS

Brigette Rouson

How do consultants translate what they offer clients in the form of prices? For a snapshot, Enhance took a closer look at how 12 leading Alliance member-practitioners approach the process, and selected resources.   Read More >>

TOUCH OF HUMOR

On the lighter side... 

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GUEST COLUMN

Ethics - A Judgment Call

Marty Taylor
Institute for Global Ethics

Some decisions are straightforward and clear; others are more subtle and not so easy.  Ethical dilemmas usually fall into the second category.  They occur in all shapes and sizes, at any time and in any place.  The challenge is to determine what is fair to all concerned and meets the standards of honesty, integrity, and the best interest or the greater good.  Occasionally, a difficult decision between two competing choices is challenged.   Read More >>

EXTRA!

Creating a New Capacity-Building Partnership

More than 60 funders, nonprofits and capacity builders from five Western and Central New York communities have worked cooperatively since May of 2002 to lay the groundwork for a "Capacity-Building Network" that will link and serve those working in and on behalf of the nonprofit sector throughout the region.  Read More >>

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