Archive for the ‘Nonprofit Managment’ Category

Socially Responsible Growth & Strategy

. In the last 15-20 years the concept of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) has grown from an abstract investment concept to a mainstream practice.  According to the Social Investment Forum’s 2007 report on SRI Trends, over $2.71 trillion in total assets are being managed using one or more of the three ...Read More

Four Board Membership Conversations

. I have outlined board frameworks elsewhere and this blog is a more practical companion. . While there are literally dozens of books, websites and blogs devoted solely to the topic of nonprofit boards it is still a common phenomenon for nonprofits to struggle to identify the strategic composition and functioning ...Read More

Data Drives Everything

. In addition to facilitation and process the recurring themes of this blog also include discussions of performance, measurement and agency capacity, with a focus on the government and nonprofit sector. Recently I was in a conversation with a colleague where we were discussing the keys to sustainable nonprofit growth. ...Read More

Agency Capcity, Resource Development Planning & Fundraising

. A few years back, I directed a larger national training project that worked extensively with non-profits on fundraising, capacity building, and resource development planning.  One of the challenges of this work was that there was a surprising lack of  a common vocabulary describing the the differences between the three terms.  ...Read More