Category: Leadership
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The Leadership + Plan + Team formula
One of the lessons I took away from the last few years is what I’ve come to think of as the Leadership + Plan + Team formula. Organizations lacking any…
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Don’t drop the glass balls
In managing yourself and staff, think of your tasks as balls juggling and focus on making sure you don’t drop the glass ones.
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes 2024
Welcome to the 3rd not-quite annual edition of Scary Nonprofit Quotes. I authored the original edition in 2021 as Halloween approached and a follow-up in 2022. After a one-year hiatus,…
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Why volunteers before how volunteers
Advocacy, Board Development, Human Resources, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Uncategorized, VolunteersWith a few exceptions, the vast majority of nonprofits with which I’ve worked have viewed volunteers as both an important resource and strategy. Almost always, they immediately get to the…
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Building and Sustaining Effective Coalitions
Do you want to start a coalition? Here are tips regarding how to launch and sustain a coalition.
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Nonprofit dashboards 101
Have you heard about nonprofit dashboards? If not, here’s a quick overview of what they are, why they’re valuable, and how you might create one.
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On the value of one-on-ones
Rather than being inefficient, one-on-one meetings are a necessity to build personal relationships and to ask organizational supporters to take on real leadership, whether via fundraising or otherwise.
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Theories of change – a primer
Theories of change are a powerful tool. How might you benefit from a theory of change? How do you set out to develop one?
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How to relentlessly focus on relationships
It’s one thing to understand why relationships matter for nonprofits. But how can you be deliberate in creating, strengthening, and activating those relationships?
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Musings on Theories of Change
I was recently talking to a potential client when it became apparent to me that they really could use a theory of change. Yet, their Executive Director was unfamiliar with…