Performance improvement is a critical nonprofit management competency to master. The rapidly changing times demand that nonprofit organizations focus myopically on developing the highest level of organizational functioning and still reach higher…
I was cleaning my office the other day and came across a hand-sketched overhead transparency that I used as the basis for a keynote address to a conference of youth mentoring nonprofits that I delivered some seven or eight years ago. The conference theme was nonprofit sustainability and in the presentation I referenced five “Environmental Threats” facing nonprofit organizations. The list of threats predated the last economic earthquake (and ongoing aftershocks) and it scary to see how relevant and magnified these threats continue to be…
At the heart of the work that I do with nonprofits, philanthropy and government is to help organizations find the connection between facilitation and process. Most often that connection is at the point of strategy. Strategy is the critical element for, among other things: a) strengthening the core of social sector agencies, b) thinking creatively [...]
When working with nonprofit agencies on strategy, I often find myself making four principle statements — Be authentic, be intentional, be large, and be radical. I find myself repeating these principles because in this continuing anemic economic climate, many nonprofits are still operating out of a conservative posture. Strategy is often focused on preserving core [...]
Most nonprofit board members have a passion and mission affiliation of the organization where they serve and skills and motivations that can support the growth the agency. The task of leadership is to recognize the contributions of each board member and to weave the individuals into a board that becomes more than the sum of its parts. Offered in this post are germinal ideas that can be used to help nonprofit boards in that weaving process.
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