When I was a child, I lived in a neighborhood with a lot of other kids around my age. Being from working class families, we had to earn our extra spending money (the candy and comic books didn’t pay for themselves!) so we were always looking for ways to earn some cash.

When you bandy about the word nonprofit, many people think of foundations or charities. For some reason, even in our own profession of nonprofit management, there are people who think associations are different from nonprofits.

There is an old joke in the Association management profession that after decades doing our jobs, we are still explaining to our family what we do for a living. While I love this joke it also gives me pause.