Nonprofit

For someone who’s leading one of the most imaginative and innovative construction efforts in the state, Kate Stalker has seized on an unusual keynote, taken from a Walt Kelly comic strip character who preceded her ambitious project by a full 70 years. Full Story 

Throughout the decades, anti-crime efforts have often swung wildly between carrot and stick approaches – or what people of differing political stripes might characterize as either squishy liberal coddling or hard-nosed, hang-‘em-high discipline. A new approach being tested by the city of Madison perhaps bridges the gap between these extremes. More importantly, however, it’s an approach that’s been shown to succeed in an arena where solutions have often been in short supply. Full Story 

There’s a stark – even cruel – irony that anyone involved in the nonprofit sector must come to understand sooner or later: Namely, when times are tough, contributions to nonprofits tend to ebb, just as the rising tide of need begins to overwhelm them. Full Story 

Michael Johnson knows he’s a lucky man. After all, as CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, he’s doing his dream job. But long before he could even think about inspiring young lives, he had to salvage his own – and luck had very little to do with that. Full Story