![Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2024](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/4th-of-July-1.jpg)
Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2024
As we hit the midpoint of the year, a new trend for for-profit and nonprofit leaders is to review their strategic and operational goals and make New Half-Year’s resolutions, recommitting to old goals and resolving to achieve new ones. Summer is a great time for...
![Four Keys to Successful Nonprofit Strategy Execution from D-Day](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/D-Day-1.jpg)
Four Keys to Successful Nonprofit Strategy Execution from D-Day
Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day – the day when more than 160,000 Allied forces landed in Normandy, France, as part of the largest air, land and sea invasion ever executed. The goal of the mission was to liberate Nazi-occupied France, and more than 9,000 Allied...
![If You Can Write a Grant, You CAN Write a Nonprofit Business Plan](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Business-Plan-v-Grant-small.jpg)
If You Can Write a Grant, You CAN Write a Nonprofit Business Plan
One of my favorite management gurus was former CEO of GE Jack Welch. On my bookshelf is my well-worn copy of Winning. I bought this book before business school, and it gave me many gems that I used there and during my time at the American Heart Association. My...
![Building Trust through Radical Nonprofit Accountability](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Depositphotos_128070032_L-1080x675.jpg)
Building Trust through Radical Nonprofit Accountability
Like many of you, we were disheartened that according to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, trust was not only at an all-time low, but also nonprofits were no longer the most trusted institution in the United States. Business now holds that title. How did this happen...
![Navigating Nonprofit Megatrends: Strategies for a Shifting Landscape](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Nonprofit-Megatrends-Wave-1080x675.jpg)
Navigating Nonprofit Megatrends: Strategies for a Shifting Landscape
Change is all around us – political, social, technological and even generational. Many sociologists say we are at an 80-year shift. Similar to the monumental shift from horse and buggy to automobiles, the very way we live is changing and it is impacting every...
![15 Years and Counting: Making Social Impact the Bottom Line](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/15-Years-940x675.png)
15 Years and Counting: Making Social Impact the Bottom Line
Fifteen years ago, I started Social Impact Architects with one disruptive goal: to reimagine nonprofit consulting. As every social entrepreneur does, I started with the problem. Based on my experience and research, I identified key issues in the nonprofit-consultant...
![Managing Nonprofit Conflict Resolution by Inviting Dissent in Decision-Making](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Conflict-Resolution-1.jpg)
Managing Nonprofit Conflict Resolution by Inviting Dissent in Decision-Making
The media was abuzz last week with the "Wheel of Fortune" – "Pink Orchid" debate. It nearly broke the Internet with a million views in two days as people watched and rewatched Megan Carvale guess the puzzle with five blank letters: P_N_/_RC_ _D. Whether you hear “Pink...
![How Opportunity Assessments Can Help Nonprofits Size up New Opportunities](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Goldfish-Jumping-1080x675.jpg)
How Opportunity Assessments Can Help Nonprofits Size up New Opportunities
Because the social sector is in the business of changing the world, we often are inclined to see every need or idea as a call to action. The result of taking on too many opportunities comes in the form of mission creep, donor confusion or staff burnout. Research...
![Ideas to Impact: How Social Entrepreneurs Think About Social Change](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Social-Alchemy-butterfly-transformation-1.jpg)
Ideas to Impact: How Social Entrepreneurs Think About Social Change
My favorite graduation gift is the bestselling book, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. I share it with anyone I can because it speaks to all of us who want to find our own destiny. As one of the mentors tells the protagonist, Santiago, “When you really want something to...
![Tips for Combating Leadership Fatigue in the Social Sector](https://socialimpactarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Fatigue-1080x675.jpg)
Tips for Combating Leadership Fatigue in the Social Sector
I think I speak for all of us when I say that this year has gone by in a flash – how is it September already? This year has presented some unexpected challenges with the twists and turns of the economy, politics and extreme weather incidents. As dedicated social...