We remember the 1950s through the eyes of the Beave and “Father Knows Best,” and maybe we have a sense of the anxieties that formed that time from the Depression-era reminiscences of our grandparents, or our great-grandparents. But what will we look like to our grandkids after we emerge from the current economic quagmire?
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Friday, March 13th, 2009Nonprofits – Ports in the Storm
Friday, January 9th, 2009Hidden inside the Business section of last Sunday’s New York Times was an interesting item that should cheer up any nonprofit employee.
If you have been coveting the speedboat that your friend who works at the big hedge fund bought with his last bonus, or if you are tired of having your stories about camping in the Adirondacks trumped by his wife’s PowerPoint presentation of their Parisian vacation, take heart: at least you still have a job.
The turmoil in the financial markets has been turning bankers into beggars, and workers in the mortgage industry now want to know if you would like fries with that order. But according to numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hospitals, institutions of higher learning and other not-for-profit entities have been showing some stability in these wobbly times. Read on….