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Four Self-Care Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Every year, nonprofits and government agencies use this month to fight stigma, educate the public about the support available and advocate for policies that advance mental health and well-being. However, it is equally important...
Addressing Nonprofit Challenges to Avoid Organizational Decline or Failure
Every nonprofit right now is feeling a bit unsteady. We have gone through a collective earthquake – with the initial shock and many aftershocks of the pandemic, which now include inflation and an economic downturn. It is natural to feel a bit “wobbly” in the face of...
Improve Your Nonprofit Financial Management with our Financial Sustainability Check-up
Tax Day was Tuesday, and, like it or not, it gets everyone, including social sector organizations, thinking deeply about finances. With the economic downturn and inflation, I spoke with one of our long-term partners, John Gillespie of Charles River CFO, about these...
How to Land the Big Fish: Try a Nonprofit Prospectus
We got a great email from a reader that we thought we’d share: “Dear Suzanne, we are working with a ‘big-fish’ entrepreneur and instead of a grant, she is asking us for a prospectus. We have researched this term and don’t see how to apply it to our nonprofit. Can you...
How Faith-Based Organizations and Nonprofits Are Working Together to Solve Social Issues
With various religious holidays this month, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate the roles faith-based organizations in the U.S. play in serving our communities. Some of the country’s largest and oldest nonprofit organizations have their roots in faith traditions,...
How Nonprofit Conflict Management Can Create Better Results
With spring here, communities across the United States are experiencing severe weather. Our hearts go out to communities in Mississippi that were hit hard last week by an EF-4 tornado. I take heart though, knowing that immediately after these storms, nonprofits and...
How to Review Nonprofit CEO Performance
Governance expert John Carver was famous for saying “organizational performance is synonymous with chief executive performance.” In other words, if an organization is performing well, the CEO must be good. And if an organization is performing poorly, it is the CEO’s...
How Nonprofits Can Get the Best Talent
This week, we embrace wishes for good luck as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Those of us who work in the nonprofit sector feel lucky beyond St. Patrick’s Day because of the many intangible rewards that come with our line of work. But, we also know, as the Roman...
The True Obstacle to Hybrid Work: Productivity Paranoia
Many folks ask how I decide on blogs – the truth is ideas for topics come from many sources, but every once in a while I have a blog in mind and someone just writes it for me. That is the case with this article by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky and longtime colleague Agnes...
Why Corporate Social Responsibility Is Good for Business
In my Social Entrepreneurship class, I share with my students a continuum that places for-profit companies on the left and charitable organizations on the right. In recent years, for-profit companies and nonprofit companies have been moving toward the middle of the...
