Running a business means you need your A team around you – both employees and volunteers. It doesn't matter how well-designed your programs are, how snazzy your marketing collateral is or even how much money you raise if your people are sub-par. People are your most valuable assets and leadership training and development is required [...]
Periodically, I run across an article that addresses a common question among nonprofit leaders really well. Haven't we all gotten tripped up by the consent agenda at one point? Or maybe we haven't even tried it because we're uncertain about the appropriate use of one. It's my pleasure to share these guidelines for using a [...]
Who are these people on your nonprofit board anyway? I've been getting asked about this a lot lately. Your state’s corporate code tells you that you need a certain number of officers on your nonprofit board. Most likely it’s a President, Treasurer and Secretary. So you make sure you have those folks in place every [...]
4 Questions To Answer And Charge Ahead To Get the Results You Want For Your Nonprofit I recently spoke to a room of executives who were there because they were “stuck” and frustrated with one hurdle or another in their nonprofit organization. To get at the heart of the matter, we zeroed in on some [...]
One thing that puzzles me is that while the many benefits of peer learning are proven, why is it not more pervasive in the nonprofit sector? These are the folks who are improving our communities through a myriad of marvelous missions and they need to carve out time for idea generation, collective problem solving, reflection and [...]
With the recent federal lawsuit against 4 “cancer charity scams,” it’s hard for Americans to know how to ensure that their donations actually go the desired cause. There are over 2 million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and over $300 billion dollars is donated to them every year! The vast majority of these nonprofits are [...]