Big Thinkers: S.F. nonprofit CEO prepared for downturn
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San Francisco Chronicle

by Justin Berton

 

At a time when CEOs of nonprofits are bracing for severe funding cuts, Anita Friedman, executive director of the Jewish Family and Children’s Services, managed to collect $600,000 in private donations at an annual fund-raiser last weekend.

“We’ve been preparing for this moment for 30 years,” said Friedman inside her San Francisco office before the event. “A social service agency in the 21st century needs to be more entrepreneurial. It needs to operate in a more business-like way, and it needs to generate earned income, in order to support its social goals and to survive.”

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Posted by Admin on March 16, 2009