First and foremost, I need to introduce myself. My name is Lee Ann Collins, managing partner of an accounting and advising firm in Dallas called Lane Gorman Trubitt, LLC (LGT), and this job is...
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As nonprofits increasingly take on thorny problems that call for large-scale social change (for example, global warming, economic development or education), some are turning to a relatively new...