Non-profit advisor contemplates year ahead in non-profit world:
1. The Growing Disparity within the Nonprofit Sector
Similar to the growing disparity in family household incomes, there is and will continue to be a growing gap between the well-established large nonprofits and the smaller less stable mass. In terms of percentage growth, in terms of income growth, in terms of program growth, the larger organizations are thriving while the others are, in many cases, holding on...
2. The Acceleration of Transitions
More CEOs and top-level staff in agencies will retire or leave their posts in 2015. Thanks to the increased value in the stock market and overall economy, the various pension plans will now enable individuals to retire with reasonable promise of having enough funds to live on.
So the circulation of top executives will turn into a cascade, with the ensuing problem that there are insufficiently trained individuals to replace them in kind. Few nonprofits, especially the smaller ones, have any type of transition or succession policy or the funds to train or to have search firms find new leadership, so another crisis will be impending....
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