5 Good Reasons To Build A Career In Non-Profits
The dawn of a new golden age of nonprofits came at the turn of the 21 st Century. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation came into being and Warren Buffett soon joined as the third trustee and billionaire/funder. The terms philanthrocapitalism and venture philanthropy were suddenly in vogue. With coffers swelled by the largess of “social entrepreneurs” who had done extremely well in the for-profit world and had confidence in their ability to solve social problems with their business-honed abilities, new nonprofit organizations sprang up to implement visions of a better world. Before long, of course, Forbes created a list of the top names among them – the Impact 30, unveiled in 2011. Your Move to a Nonprofit May Be Perfectly Timed More than a decade into this bright and shining movement, some of the original luster has dimmed. Solving intractable problems in world health or education is not as easy as some hoped and believed. But at the same time, the value of execut...