Re: [gep-ed] The Oxfam scandal shows that, yes, nonprofits can behave badly. So why aren’t they overseen like for-profits? (fwd)

2018-02-19 Thread Kathleen McAfee
Thanks for that important point and question, Tim. On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Forsyth,TJ wrote: > Dear Aseem and colleagues > Congratulations on your excellent article in the WP. But please can I > suggest that we all pause before fixing this narrative of the Oxfam crisis? > > I am not for

Re: [gep-ed] The Oxfam scandal shows that, yes, nonprofits can behave badly. So why aren’t they overseen like for-profits? (fwd)

2018-02-19 Thread Forsyth,TJ
Dear Aseem and colleagues Congratulations on your excellent article in the WP. But please can I suggest that we all pause before fixing this narrative of the Oxfam crisis? I am not for one second condoning the behaviour of the staff in Haiti, nor Oxfam’s economy of the truth in reporting it. But

Re: [gep-ed] RE: Working with advisory committees

2018-02-19 Thread Allison M. Chatrchyan
Hi Michelle, Land grant institutions (Colorado State) Extension programs all need to be driven by needs identified by stakeholders, advisory committees and boards. I would contact your Cooperative Extension administration for their directors of their Environment or Agriculture Program and ask t

[gep-ed] RE: Working with advisory committees

2018-02-19 Thread Betsill,Michele
Hi, I had Ash’s address wrong in the original email. If you have any advice on working with advisory boards research projects, please send it to enric...@colostate.edu. Thanks, M - Michele M. Betsill, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Political Scienc

[gep-ed] The Oxfam scandal shows that, yes, nonprofits can behave badly. So why aren’t they overseen like for-profits? (fwd)

2018-02-19 Thread aseem
Colleagues: Several scholars on this list study nonprofits/NGOs and have written on governance failures. The article we published on the Oxfam scandal in the Washington Post/Monkey Cage Today might interest them: The Oxfam scandal shows that, yes, nonprofits can behave badly. So why aren’t t