No doubt there have been failures of non-profit management as egregious as what's been going on at the Milwaukee Public Museum, but none come readily to mind. The place was running huge operating deficits for several years and the chief financial officer papered it over by taking money out of the endowment, apparently without telling the board or the CEO. In only a couple of years the endowment was basically drained (it wasn't big to start with) with the place still tens of millions of dollars in debt.
Now the finance chief has been charged by the state's attorney with severe malfeasance (there's no allegation that he kept any of the money himself); he's looking at jail time. The board and CEO shouldn't be let off the hook though, they seem to have been basically uninterested in oversight of the museum's finances. Nobody over there has done the sector proud, for sure.
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
dot-org diversity in the flesh (sorry)
In the course of compiling some data about the Chicago non-profit arts scene I came across this interesting local museum devoted to "The compilation, preservation and maintenance of leather lifestyle and related lifestyles." The bouncing-cowboy-boot logo shows up great in Firefox guys, nicely done.
Having fallen into that rabbit hole we come next to the Great Lakes Leather Alliance, devoted to "building bridges between the Leather, BDSM, D/s, M/s, fetish, and alternative sexual lifestyle communities." (Hmm, in this context what would constitute an "alternative" sexual lifestyle?) They appear to mainly do gatherings, award ceremonies and the like (that's a really nice nice color photo of the newly crowned "Great Lakes Leather Sir/Leather Boy for 2007"). And proudly displayed is the big logo telling us that the organization's events are "ASL interpreted", that is, signed for hearing-impaired folks. Whoa...I have a couple of good friends who are fluent in sign and have performed that service at events, wonder what their fingers would have to do to describe something like the "Great Lakes Master/Slave 2006" competition?
Having fallen into that rabbit hole we come next to the Great Lakes Leather Alliance, devoted to "building bridges between the Leather, BDSM, D/s, M/s, fetish, and alternative sexual lifestyle communities." (Hmm, in this context what would constitute an "alternative" sexual lifestyle?) They appear to mainly do gatherings, award ceremonies and the like (that's a really nice nice color photo of the newly crowned "Great Lakes Leather Sir/Leather Boy for 2007"). And proudly displayed is the big logo telling us that the organization's events are "ASL interpreted", that is, signed for hearing-impaired folks. Whoa...I have a couple of good friends who are fluent in sign and have performed that service at events, wonder what their fingers would have to do to describe something like the "Great Lakes Master/Slave 2006" competition?
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