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Optimize Collaboration Between Your Board and Staff: Learn How to Foster an Effective Partnership An effective partnership between board and staff leaders is a tremendous asset. It is often the key to flexible and resilient organizational leadership – the kind...

Do You Feel Stressed? Discover How to Shrink Your Anxiety in Five Minutes a Day. Nonprofit executives are often under undue stress. Achieving goals, pleasing stakeholders, resolving disputes, hitting development targets, and dozens of other responsibilities can seem daunting. You...

Lead Better. Discover How Your Board Can Advance Needed Change. The nonprofit sector is coming to terms with the fact that boards must change the traditional ways they have worked in the face of systemic challenges and inequities. Is your...

Your Operations Report Can Increase Program Organization and Funding. Discover How to Collect and Represent the Information. Successful programs require guiding documents that describe who, what, where, when, and how. You need to compile information that details the key action...

Expand Your Resources and Impact With a Merger: Discover How to Unite With a Mission-Similar Nonprofit. As your nonprofit emerges from the pandemic, your resources are stretched, and demands are growing. Employees across nonprofits are quitting in record numbers, recruiting...

Is Your Organization Hiring the Best People? Adopt a Rigorous Search and Disciplined Selection Process. Hiring decisions are crucial for the success of your nonprofit. Top talent can make the difference between mediocre results and stellar outcomes. Every hiring decision...

How Effective Is Your Board? Learn How to Assess and Improve Board Performance A strong, vibrant board of directors is a clear indicator of a healthy organization. Yet even the best organizations need ongoing attention and check-ups to ensure that...

Build a Stronger Partnership With Your Board: Gain More Respect and Productivity Board members should be part of your organizational family instead of just once-a-month visitors. As an executive director, you need to treat board management as both a science...

Does Your Organization Have a Governance Committee? Change Your Approach to Create an Engaged Board. Nonprofits often have nominations committees responsible for putting forward nominees for board membership and officer positions. After the rush to find and enlist suitable candidates,...

Learn Excel to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Results. Unleash Your Data and Save Time. Nonprofit organizations use Excel to track volunteers, merge donor information from multiple online sources, and create budgets. By learning this powerful application, you can improve your organization’s...

Does Your Organization Have a Strong Culture? Discover Tactics to Define and Refine Your Organizational Culture. Understanding, strengthening, and communicating your organizational culture is critical for your nonprofit’s sustainability. It serves as a positive retention strategy and a litmus test...

Use Coaching to Drive Performance. Get Better Results From Your Team. Transitioning from old-fashioned management to modern coaching is essential in an environment of rapid change.  Effective coaching methods can make an enormous difference in team productivity and organizational capacity....

Donations Are Hiding in Your CRM. Unlock the Data to Improve Fundraising Results Your CRM: Keeps all the information about your funders in a central place Identifies untapped opportunities Provides insights into fundraising successes you can emulate You need to...

See How Easily You Can Get Donors’ Attention. Discover 10 Quick and Easy Ways to Attract Donors and Funds The number of nonprofits in the U.S. is increasing every year, now topping 1.5 million. When you’re a nonprofit leader, the...

No, Thanks. Learn When It is Necessary to Decline Gifts. There are circumstances under which your organization should decline a gift from a donor. Effective gift acceptance policies provide necessary guardrails for nonprofit boards and staff members. You need to...

Do Your Programs Fill Real Needs? Learn How to Measure Program Need. Effective program design and execution starts with verifying the need. Needs assessments are essential tools that aid organizations in ensuring the services they offer are necessary, welcome, and...

Does Your Workforce Embrace and Benefit from Racial Equity? Infuse Inclusion Throughout Your Team. For a nonprofit to truly embody racial equity, every member of your workforce needs to understand and embrace inclusion. They must not only denounce systemic racism...

Are You an Imposter? Build New Confidence to Feel Comfortable as a Leader. Does a closed session put you into a panic because you convince yourself you are being fired instead of getting a raise? Do you ever worry that...

How Is Cash Flow at Your Organization? Learn How to Calculate the Current Situation and Future Projections. Cash flow is essential for every nonprofit. While it is obvious that you need more funds coming in than going out, calculating this...

Does Your Board Champion Racial Equity? Learn How to Implement Inclusive Practices and Pursue Equity. Your nonprofit’s board sets the tone for racial equity. To ensure your entire organization embodies this essential goal, the leadership of directors is vital for...

New Programs at Your Organization. Discover Unsurpassed Implementation Strategies. New programs require thoughtful implementation to be successful. Throughout program design, you need to consider the specific steps. To improve outcomes, you can use effective strategies, such as a soft launch...

How Could New Laws Help Your Organization? Discover How to Achieve Success With Lobbying Only 3% of all charities actively lobby for their organizations and the causes they hold dear. You can make life better for the people and communities...

Strategy is Vital for Your Organization. Learn How to Make Yours Transformational. Strategic practices allow organizations to increase their capacities and achieve more. You need to step away from putting out daily fires to plan and prepare for the future....

Is Your Team Successful? Discover How to Increase Productivity and Decrease Turnover. Organizations are made up of teams of people. Understanding team dynamics and employee motivation can enable you to set up your teams for success. Effective teams lead to...