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How are low cost concerts and museums funded? Are donors sufficient? Is it the low cost of living and resulting reduction in staff costs? Is it sustainable in t

• moron4hire 12y ago
  Successive years of excellent portfolio management. Assets are purchased with donor money to create an endowment that makes the entire ship self-sustaining. Or in the case of some places (e.g. Harvard), becoming an economic juggernaut within the community. Actually, "excellent" is the wrong adjective. "Competent" is all that is necessary. However, the non-profit world is often beset with incompetent employees at all levels, from your average worker all the way up to the top directors (well, usually B begets A). There is a problem in the field of people interpreting "we are a non-profit" as "we are a charity in all aspects, including hiring". There is definitely a feeling that only "heartless" (i.e. for-profit) companies worry about productivity. Let's put it this way: if'n you ever had the notion to lie on your resume to get a job, look first to the non-profit world[1]. I've seen several instances at several locations of people with long-standing careers where they STILL aren't competent at the skills they lied about having on their resume when they got hired. [1] that should be read as an indictment of the field, not a recommendation for lying on your resume.