Board Development, Communicate, Grow, Lead, Organizational Culture, Retreats, Social Impact Architects, Storytelling
Summer has officially started and with it comes vacations, cookouts and baseball games – and your nonprofit’s retreat. Retreats have become commonplace in the sector, but sometimes CEOs and board chairs find orchestrating a productive retreat for their organization...
Organizational Assessments
Dave Barry said it best: “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’” Yet, meetings (and now virtual meetings and calls) remain an effective tool to...
Business Planning, Grow, Organizational Assessments, Organizational Culture, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning
Summer brings us blockbuster movies, and this summer is no different. I for one cannot wait. One recent movie that I really enjoyed was “Air,” which tells the story of the rise of Nike and how its basketball division landed Michael Jordan as its ambassador. (It’s now...
Grow, Growth/Scaling Plans, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning
I have been traveling the country speaking about nonprofit megatrends and one thing is clear: the pace of change is leaving everyone overwhelmed and a bit disconnected. We talk a lot about change, but not enough about the other side of the coin: transformation. Change...
Business Planning, Evaluation Planning, Grow, Growth/Scaling Plans, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning
While there are numerous books and websites on strategic planning, the process of developing a plan can seem prescriptive. But it shouldn’t be that way. Strategy for any organization can be tailored to set forth the ways in which an organization will negotiate its...