Anyone who has been involved in a board conversation or a management discussion within a nonprofit has faced the following question: Do we do what is best for the cause or best […]
A Challenge Facing Nonprofit Strategy – Caring Too Much
How to Get the BEST Out of Your Nonprofit Board
I was speaking with a close associate of mine the other day about boards of directors. He is considered by many to be an expert in the area of philanthropy and he […]
Five Ways to Use Yelp! to Grow Your Volunteers
In my recent research interviewing over 50 executive directors of nonprofit organizations, the overwhelming majority of organizations were not fully utilizing volunteers as a resource for growing their organization. There were some larger […]
Donors Should Fund Marketing
Last week I was asked to be a part of a panel discussion on social entrepreneurship and I think I might have been the Simon Cowell of the panel. One particular discussion centered […]
Fundraising Declines Are a Symptom That Something Else is Wrong
I was having lunch this past week with two intelligent and highly-educated women who also shared my passion for nonprofit strategy. They were working on building a series of workshops designed to […]
Three Things Every Non-profit Board Member Should Do One Of
I was speaking with a close associate of mine the other day about board of directors. He is considered by many to be an expert in the area of philanthropy and he […]
Three Ways To Be a Great Nonprofit Board Chair – Help Me Help You
Having sat on a number of boards for nonprofits, I encountered different types of board chairs. I’ve experienced chairs from one end of the spectrum to another. There are those board chairs who […]
Connections Versus Relationships – Donor Cultivation 101
I was in a meeting a few weeks ago with some colleagues that run a somewhat small nonprofit. They were quite excited because they had just purchased an email list of a few thousand high […]
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