Mining the Mission | Nonprofits Making a ‘Fortune’
Fortune magazine’s annual list of best companies to work for is out, and, happily, several nonprofits appear on it. These include a number of health-care organizations (the Methodist Hospital System, OhioHealth, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Griffin Hospital, Vision Service Plan, Scripps Health, the Mayo Clinic, King’s Daughters Medical Center, Southern Ohio Medical Center, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, and Baptist Health South Florida), the research firm MITRE, and Navy Federal Credit Union. It’s terrific to see as commercially focused a publication as Fortune acknowledge that the benefits of working for nonprofits — focus on mission, diversity of employees, child-care perks, and such — can be as attractive as the number that appears on one’s paycheck. Congratulations to all of the nonprofits cited.
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I wonder why there aren’t more ‘purely public charities’ other than health care orgs on the list. Where is Red Cross? United Way? Habitat for Humanity?
I wonder if it has to do with the notion that so many non-profits fear running their companies like a for profit. Maybe that stifles creativity, spirit?