Going Public — This Week's Insights “At the end of several months of training and strategy, the staff came to a critical decision: everything that they did…would be put to a simple test. Did the activity lead to the training and developing of leaders? Or not? If it did, they would invest their time and...Continue reading
Month: August 2026
Going Public Book Club – Chapter 8: The Hard Edges of Effective Organizing
Going Public — This Week's Insights “This trend will continue–and more Americans will choose either to bowl alone or not bowl at all–until the leaders and organizers of our voluntary associations confront a few major failings.” - Mike Gecan, Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to to Citizen Action, page 131 “Leaders can confront the critical...Continue reading
Going Public Book Club – Chapter 7: Ambiguity, Reciprocity, Victory
Going Public — This Week's Insight “On issue after issue, in agency after agency, affecting scores of communities, our organized teams of leaders learned what it was like when a focused government actually wanted to respond to focused citizens.” - Mike Gecan, Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to to Citizen Action
H.S. & College Students: Learn About Stackable Credentials with QuickBooks Certification
TL;DR Intuit's QuickBooks ("Intuit/QB") is the dominant bookkeeping software for small to medium-sized businesses. Aspiring CPAs have a real interest in learning it — with one exception: if you're Big 4 focused, this may not be a priority (more on that in a separate post). If you are an aspiring CPA and want to explore...Continue reading