September 2011

September 18, 2011

The Mission is the Music

With HI-USA in the midst of reinventing itself, a recent gathering of some of its most important stakeholders – our hostel managers – took on special meaning.   And so did a YouTube video of a “guy starting a dance party” at a 2009 music festival. HI-USA annually convenes its National Operators Meeting, where managers nationwide, - Read More -

September 1, 2011

Major League Answers for Nonprofits

It must have been on mind last weekend entering Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers.  I was back in my home state of Wisconsin with college friends to see the surging Brewers play the Chicago Cubs.  “It” was something called the Triple Bottom Line, the subject of an office discussion several days earlier. The - Read More -