Management
THE ART OF EFFECTIVE HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS
"Donating is not as easy as cleaning out the closet. We’re trying to help in a global world now, across languages, cultures, and backgrounds—so you need to work very carefully based on a sensitive regional understanding and cultural awareness."
BEST PRACTICES, PART I: SUCCESS IS IN THE DETAILS
"Best practices have become a major force in all sectors and industries, with managers and clients alike assuming that proper application of behaviors and processes deemed “best practices” will automatically lead to desired results. The reality is more complex and nuanced. "
SUSTAINABILITY, COMMITMENT, AND THE VOLUNTEER SPIRIT
"The marketplace in business requires that you have to be financially sustainable. This factor is why corporations tend to be much sharper in the way they are managed. What CELA stands for now, in terms of the broader human aspect, is no different than it was when it was started."
ENVISIONING ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
"The future of countries, organizations, and individuals will not happen in a “vacuum”—that is, their futures will not be determined solely by a narrow set of parameters isolated from developments in the larger world around them. Nor will their destinies be simply of their own making or a result of navigating their immediate economic, political, or social ecosystem."
VOLUNTOURISM: THE NGO PERSPECTIVE
"In the end, there is a lot more all of us can do in the development sector to be more accountable, more informed, and more nuanced. Volunteers need to be more critical of organizations, and to fundamentally alter their discourse and attitudes about volunteering abroad."
ENDOWMENT MANAGEMENT: WHAT YOU’RE EXPECTED TO KNOW
"Forming an effective investment committee, however, is just one piece of the endowment management puzzle. Using the considerable experience of our principles—who have spent time on both sides of the committee table—PASS will construct a process for search, due diligence, selection, negotiation, and ongoing monitoring of your institution’s endowment management committee."
