I consult to not-for-profits (NFPs) for a living. Three times out of four, when I speak with their leaders, I discover that they have lots of good ideas about where they want their organizations to go. However, they are challenged to tell me about the specific impact those ideas will...

I read with pleasure yesterday that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of our city's cultural treasures, will be getting a spectacular new plaza design. When completed, the landscaping will run all the way from 80th to 84th Streets on Fifth Avenue and will include more trees, new fountains, and...

The current plight of the New York City Opera is an unfortunate case history in not-for-profit mismanagement. In the latest of a decade of missteps, the Opera's leadership decided to resolve a labor dispute by proposing a 90 percent pay cut for its employees and instituting a lockout. This gasoline...

Childhood obesity is much in the news these days, thanks partially to the First Lady. So I was thrilled to hear recently about a highly successful Stanford Hospital program to help children at risk of obesity learn healthy eating and exercise habits. Almost as exciting for...

Imagine my excitement when I learned that Jennifer Siebel Newsom's new documentary, Miss Representation, was to air on television for the first time on October 20. I fervently wish that this scathing documentary about the American media's treatment of women's bodies had been around when I was a teenager. Without...