Published: 5/28/2024 Reading Time: 5 minutes I met my first suicidal student while serving as a 23-year-old instructor at a local community college. The student was calm and matter-of-fact. She saw no alternatives other than taking her life. What was her dilemma? She had just found out that Stanford had offered her a full scholarship….
As is often the case when I have the privilege of performing my pro bono volunteer work for the NYC Family Court, one of my recent consultations involved a father embroiled in a custody dispute with his ex-wife. You don’t need to know the details to imagine a father’s pain at the thought of losing…
It’s budget season, and the spreadsheet chaos has begun. But you want to make this year different. You want to document your process to save yourself valuable time next budget season. You want to be able to easily report on budgets in a variety of accurate, clear ways without too much fuss, and know what…
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) The New York Times reported that Justice Sam Alito had an upside down flag flying at his house at the same time the act became a ubiquitous symbol of insurrectionist sympathies. Stinging from being scooped in their own hometown, the Washington Post used the holiday weekend to point out that…
Prospect researchers are up to their ears in data—and usually with requests. Responding to individual needs probably occupies most of your day but reacting to requests is not the best way to spend your time. To have the biggest impact on your organization, you’ve got to turn the tables and start proactively researching so you…
Accounts payable (AP) is one of the most task-heavy parts of your finance team’s workload. According to the AFP’s 2022 Payments Cost Benefit Survey, most finance professionals spend at least one hour a week on each of these tasks: reconciling payments, processing ACH payments, and processing checks. That’s more than 150 hours—almost 19 business days—each…
SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on May 28, 2024 at 10:42 am The court agreed to take up in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday. (Katie Barlow) The justices agreed to take up a Clean Water Act case brought by San Francisco against the Environmental Protection Agency in a…
Digital therapeutics developer Click Therapeutics is building up its prospects in cardiometabolic disorders by acquiring the assets of Better Therapeutics, a company whose technology platform yielded one FDA-authorized product and could serve as a springboard for a range of drug and digital treatment pairings. Better’s FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutic, named AspyreRx, is a type 2…
California‘s cannabis industry suffers from a seemingly unending list of problems: high taxes, prohibitionist cities, a related lack of retail licenses and oversupply of non-retail licenses, a monster illegal market with no end in sight, burdensome and often senseless regulations, and so on. Unfortunately, rescheduling won’t solve most of these problems–at least not directly. Today…
The role of the nonprofit CFO has undergone a profound evolution. No longer confined to the more traditional, narrow lane of strictly managing an organization’s revenue and expense sheets, today’s nonprofit CFOs are increasingly asked to design a multifaceted approach that encompasses strategic vision, collaboration, and innovation. This transformation is not only a response to…