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New Year's Development Goals for Leaders
For next year, let’s break that failed resolution cycle! Let’s set our yearly leadership development goals and put some best practices in place to help us achieve those goals.
Police Chief Sanchez Declares We Can't Wipe Out Homelessness in Santa Barbara
Our extremely successful, yet compassionate, Chief of Police, Camerino Sanchez, adamantly declares that we will never be successful in completely eradicating homelessness. But we must be faithful every day in trying to save all we can.
Ways Your Nonprofit Can Engage Millennials as Donors, and Volunteers
Ever wonder how your nonprofit can attract and keep Millennials as donors and volunteers? This article will provide guidelines for enticing, engaging, and keeping Millennial donors and volunteers for your nonprofit.
Ways Your Nonprofit Can Engage Millennials as Employees
The future is here—don’t get left behind. Your nonprofit likely wants to attract donors, retain employees, and recruit volunteers. Right? That means you need a clear plan for enticing, engaging, and keeping Millennials.
Using A Financial Dashboard Helps Your Nonprofit Board Focus On The Essentials
Financial oversight is one of the most critical responsibilities of a nonprofit board of directors, yet many boards fall short of optimum performance in this area. Read this article to learn about the power of financial dashboards.
A Different Look at Succession Planning
With sustainability as the focus, nonprofit staff and boards can and should consider a whole range of circumstances related to transitions of leadership that create risks to the mission.
How To Create A Culture Of Disciplined Innovation In Your Nonprofit
Ever wonder why some organizations seem to always come up with clever ideas for achieving their mission? Do you find yourself wishing you had one of those “creative types” on your staff so your nonprofit could find ways to work smarter not harder? Would you be surprised to know that encouraging this type of innovation in your group merely takes discipline?
A Systems View of Your Nonprofit Programs Helps Measure the So What? Factor
Funders want proof of program effectiveness. Donors want it. Volunteers want it. Even the government wants it. For many nonprofits, especially human services and the arts, measuring outcomes is a relatively new concept. Looking at your organization’s programs as a system makes measurement easier.
Four Tips to Help Boards Spot Financial Red Flags
How often have we heard of nonprofits hitting a financial brick wall and then teetering on the edge of solvency? It happens too frequently. When we hear these stories we often wonder where the board was and why they did not steer the organization around the financial white water. Read this article for ways of spotting financial red flags while they are still yellow.
5 Steps to Ensuring Success for Your Nonprofit's New Executive Director
What are we doing to set the new executives up for success? Following a solid onboarding procedure can be just as important as your search process.