Business Planning, Business Planning, Evaluation Planning, Grow, Growth/Scaling Plans, Impact, Organizational Assessments, Social Enterprise, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning, System Change
“Back to the Future” is coming to Broadway in New York this weekend. (My husband and I had a blast watching it in London last year.) With all the discussions about AI and Chat GPT, we thought we’d contemplate the future of the social sector along with some of the...
Business Planning, Organizational Assessments, Program Development, Social Impact Architects
When I visited South Africa, Kruger National Park had an exploding elephant population. They had to move many of elephants to a nearby wildlife refuge, but they only had equipment to move the smaller ones – the females and the young. They couldn’t move the adult males...
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...
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...