There is little doubt that technology, particularly Web and mobile, are pushing the message of the nonprofit sector to all corners of the globe. (Can a globe really have corners?) But incredibly, there are still a few bold-faced managers in the sector who can’t open and respond to an email. The sector is changing faster than Lady Gaga makes a costume flip during her latest concert tour. Many of the people in the seats of the Monsters tour are texting dollars to their favorite
charity while taking video of that night’s rendition of Bad Romance on their mobile devices.
Whether it’s cloud computing for program management or email for giving,
nonprofit technology leaders are driving how organizations collect and
interpret information. And that information is turned over to some of the most innovative entrepreneurs in the nation. That’s why leaders in technology and social entrepreneurs heavily weight this year’s NPT Power & Influence Top 50, the annual listing of the 50 most influential executives in the sector for the previous 12 months.
Selecting those included in the NPT Power & Influence Top 50 is not scientific. It’s based on nominations from editorial staff of The NonProfit Times, its contributing editors, suggestions from former nominees and a few selected, plugged-in people.
It’s also intended to ensure that most disciplines within the sector have a representative. For example, this year the selections were weighted toward the technology, social entrepreneurs and public service trends. There were more than 250 nominees this year, which is routinely the case.Washington, D.C. and the surrounding Virginia and Maryland suburbs have their usual dominant number of
honorees, though New York, California, Texas and Georgia also have strong
showings this year.
In this “lucky” 13th annual NPT Power & Influence Top 50,we celebrate some of
the sector’s top executives and thinkers.These executives were selected for the
impact they have now and for the innovative plans they are putting in place to evolve the charitable sector.We also offer a roll call of the executives who have shaped this listing and the sector in the Hall of Fame section.
The P&I honorees will be feted for their work at The NPT Power & Influence Top 50 Gala next month at the National Press Club in Washington,D.C. It will be a night of high-level exchange between executives who can and have moved a nation.
Here is The NPT Power & Influence Top 50, Class of 2010. NPT The 13th annual
celebration of some of the sector’s top executives and thinkers.
Diana Aviv
President & CEO
Independent Sector
Washington, D.C.
A tactical thought-leader in the nonprofit community, Aviv plays a
huge part in every major sector development out of Washington,
D.C. If she stays away from something, it’s for good reason.
Her political instincts are prescient and precise.
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Gary D. Bass
Founder & Executive Director
OMB Watch
Washington, D.C.
A member of the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame,
Bass has fought to advance open government policies and priorities.
Whether it’s the president’s assault on the charitable deduction,
loopholes in the DISCLOSE Act or just plain fiscal responsibility in
the federal budget, he’s on it.
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Elizabeth Boris
Director
Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Urban Institute
Washington, D.C.
The sector’s official scorekeeper with objective data,she was founding
director of Urban’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and
founding director of the Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector Research
Fund.All the way back in 1999 she was raising concerns about
collaboration and conflict between government and the sector.
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