Are ethics and public relations mutually exclusive, like ethical embezzlement? Popular conceptions of public relations range from the relatively benign, as in ginning up publicity, to the more nefarious, as in sowing doubt and spreading misinformation. In that view, on a good day, public relations is frivolous; on a bad day, evil. A long line of social critics, philosophers, and ordinary citizens see more bad days than good. In fact, a recent survey shows most Americans consider PR practitioners “smart, friendly liars.” That’s the issue we will address as we examine public relations from the happy hokum of a P.T. Barnum to the hollow bombast of a Donald Trump and points in between. Along the way, we’ll examine the practice through the intellects of great thinkers from Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Mill to John Rawls, Alasdair Macintyre, and Carol Gilligan. PR doesn’t have to be the shortest four-letter word in the dictionary.

Immersive Worlds: Science, Narrative, and the Arts is a full-day, conference and exhibit held in the Baruch Performing Arts Center which explores the impact of immersive technologies across multiple disciplines including advertising, data, arts, education, science, and journalism.

Immersive Worlds: Science, Narrative, and the Arts is a full-day, conference and exhibit held in the Baruch Performing Arts Center which explores the impact of immersive technologies across multiple disciplines including advertising, data, arts, education, science, and journalism.

Immersive Worlds: Science, Narrative, and the Arts is a full-day, conference and exhibit held in the Baruch Performing Arts Center which explores the impact of immersive technologies across multiple disciplines including advertising, data, arts, education, science, and journalism.

Form 990 is one of the most public and transparent of all returns. Unless allowed to file a simpler 990-EZ or 990-N, Form 990 must be filed completely and accurately each year by every exempt organizations or they can lose tax their exemption. This workshop will cover some of the more complex areas of the form and provide tips to avoid misreporting or being audited by the IRS. It also cover how to get your tax exemption restated after revocation.

Floyd Norris gives the keynote at the 10th Annual Audit Conference.

The governments of Russia and China are actively promoting the expansion of their nonprofit sectors as partners in service delivery and civic participation. But both are also seeking to put limits on nonprofit operations. This seminar will explore current dynamics by addressing the history and evolution of the nonprofit sectors in Russia and China, opportunities and restrictions for US nonprofits seeking to operate there, and government oversight of nonprofits.

This nonprofit seminar is presented by David Rivel, Chief Executive

Officer of The Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services. It focuses on considerations

for large organizations getting even larger, planning for growth in programs

and administration, factors affecting transfer of government contracts to new

sponsoring organizations and more. Gail B. Nayowith,

Principal, 1digit LLC moderates the event.  

The winner and finalists from this year’s Brooke W. Mahoney Award for Outstanding Board Leadership sit down with Dean David Birdsell of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs and Chair of VCG Governance Matters for a frank conversation about what makes their Boards–and their organizations–successful. Organizations represented include Transportation Alternatives, Global Kids, The New York Bar Foundation, Queens Community House, and Reach the World.