Updates from Tom
"Chef Jackie Shen | Chef 2 Chef http://t.co/qza8NCwo via @Chef2Chef - She's visiting my class on creativity & business @ IIT tonight!""Tim Brown on creativity and play http://t.co/ECKLPwZf #TED - Discover rules of play to help generate ideas...""Theater for the 99% Blistering, enchanting "Ameriville" @ #VictoryGardens - http://t.co/PB7JOPRj - Music, stories, images & movement!""Introduction to Week 5 of "Public Policy Advocacy": http://t.co/7XGSHALP - Teaching classes on social change & civic engagement @ UIC.""I'll be @ IIT's Feb 17 Friday Fusion - Wishnick Hall, Rm 115 @ 2pm - "CEO's Say Creativity #1 Requirement for New Managers""
Category Archives: Nonprofit Education & Policy
Nonprofits Have Failed America – Solution? Political Action
Tom gave this ten minute talk at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute forum on the future of nonprofits. Bottom line – nonprofits have failed us. Solution? Click here.
Jane Addams Was Tough, Played Politics – America’s Nonprofits, Take Note
With the demise of Hull House one of the issues that lingers over the disaster is how nonprofit leaders have strayed so far from Jane Addams fighting spirit. From The Chicago Tribune: “Chicagoans know Addams as a leader of the … Continue reading
Good Bye, Jane. Shame On Chicago. What Now?
So Hull House closed on Friday without a whimper. No one put up a fight. So maybe it deserved to die. Over 635 people have signed the online petition to save Hull House by the time of this writing but … Continue reading
Save Hull House!
I just learned of this terrible news. How did it happen? We can’t let Hull House, founded by social justice pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams, go out of business. Sign the online petition to SAVE HULL HOUSE! … Continue reading
Tom’s Talk About Future of Nonprofits
Tom was one of the presenters at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Great Cities Institute forum marking the 10th anniversary of their Professional Education Program’s Certificate in Nonprofit Management. He claimed that the nonprofit sector has failed America and … Continue reading
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