The HRC thanks Anne Farrow for serving as guest author for the following entry. Anne is the senior content editor for the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online, a project of the Connecticut Humanities Council. Formerly a career journalist, Anne co-authored Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. She is currently at work on a new book about slavery and memory. The glossy marble floors and columns of America's august history museums are...
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The HRC thanks Marcie Charest for serving as guest author for the following entry. Marcie has worked in the education field for fifteen years, including the past eight years in museum education. Marcie is currently Director of Interpretation at the Stanley-Whitman House and Manager of School & Family Programs at the Hill-Stead Museum, both in Farmington, CT. Previously she worked as a classroom teacher and as head of education programs at the Lutz Children's Museum....
This article is reprinted with permission from Blue Avocado, a practical and readable online magazine for nonprofits. Subscribe free by sending an email to editor@blueavocado.org or at www.blueavocado.org.Flexible hours and working from home are benefits that many nonprofits want to implement, but are not sure how to do it fairly and in a way that acknowledges the value of having people in the office together. Robin Erickson, Director of Finance and Administration for an environmental...
The HRC thanks Anne Farrow for serving as guest author for the following entry. Anne is the senior content editor for the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online, a project of the Connecticut Humanities Council. Formerly a career journalist, Anne co-authored Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. She is currently at work on a new book about slavery and memory. What do we talk about when we talk about history?When university...
Not out of date, even though it was published in 2003, The Best of the Board Cafe is a very useful, easy to use, practical advice book for board members and staff of non-profits.It is a compilation of tidbits from Board Cafe (check out http://www.compasspoint.org/boardcafe/index.phpt to see Board Cafe articles online), but what might be surprising in this web-based age is how useful it is to have an actual book to flip through (with an...
