Volunteer Management.(Brief Article)

Non-profit Times, The, July, 2001 by Ellis, Susan J.

It really isn't rocket science

Dennis Tito is back on earth. He's the billionaire who paid the Russian space agency a reputed $20 million to realize his dream of travelling into space, causing no end of indignant outrage from NASA.

While this story may seem, literally, light years away from nonprofit management issues, the way Tito was treated is actually quite instructive as a role model for avoiding common mistakes in volunteer/employee relations.

An opinion piece in The New York Times on May 3, 2001 said that NASA contends that the presence of Mr. Tito, a rank amateur, may endanger the safety of the astronauts who are still putting together and testing the fledgling station...." On May 7, The New York Times further noted: [NASA] has...

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