A local economist whose views I respect wrote an article for today’s Sunday paper saying that there need not be so much gloom over the “giant sucking sound” of jobs being offshored from America. He says that the US also imports jobs; foreign companies—most notably the Japanese auto companies—have built plants here and created a lot of good jobs. He ...

More Americans volunteered in 2003 than in 2002, in part because of a rise in teen volunteers, a new report says. Nearly 29 percent of the U.S. population volunteered between September 2002 and September 2003, up from 27.4 percent the prior year, says the report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. For more…

An article from onPhilanthropy that urges nonprofits to get out front and develop new technology or apply it in ways that are unique to nonprofits. (Right on!) It’s time to stop lagging behind and imitating the for-profit world. There are 10 interesting ideas about how to do this.

Brief article summarizing donor stewardship with 5 principles that seem like CRM to me. Know your audience Be timely Be genuine Be specific and report results Capture the imagination and engage your audience in future projects ps: also a piece on branding.