Brad Rourke

Brad Rourke’s Blog

  • How To Evaluate Online Obligations

    We seem constantly pulled away from reality to tend to online business. For many, this can be vexing. For volunteers intent on helping those around them, it can be even more of a dilemma.

  • I Don't Want Your Email Address Unless We're Friends

      This was sort of odd. I met someone recently, and he gave me his card.  I later sat down to start entering the info in my contact files.   Usually, in such a situation, I would shoot them an email about how nice it was to meet them, etc. As I was processing the…

  • Concerns About Health Care Cut Through

    Today I’m in Dayton to meet with some folks at the Kettering Foundation and the National Issues Forums Institute. One of the things we’ll be talking about is an online version of an issue guide about how we can pay for health care in America. Last weekend I led a candidate training program run by…

  • Free Advice To Candidates

    Last weekend I led a candidate training program run by the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. I’ve been doing this for a while now. At the end of it, I was reminded of a post I wrote for Rockville Central some time ago, which I have spruced up a bit and am…

  • What's On Your "Stop Do" List?

    Rip Rapson, president of the Kresge Foundation, recently spoke to gathered YMCA’s and gave a chilling overview of the nonprofit sector: Early on in the crisis, we argued about whether the problem would be short- or long-term, about whether we could simply limp through to a resumption of what we’ve come to understand as normalcy.…

  • Are There Projects You Should Let Go?

    How many projects are you working on that are off-mission or off-topic for you? Why don’t you kill them? Are there clients you should fire, foundations you should let go? Do it! Make room for something better.