Tuesday night (this post is republished from May 2017), I started the board retreat with a reflective dialogue based on reading the children’s classic Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? I sent the book around the room, with a different board member reading each page. The reading took about five minutes. Then I asked this question: …
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Continue reading“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” The theme of the November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is abundance. Moving from scarcity to abundance means we need to reframe how we see and think about our communities. I worked at City Year many years ago. City Year’s founders embodied the abundance mindset. …
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Continue reading“You’re a strategic planning consultant? You must use Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions a lot.” Sinking feeling. As I stood by the grill with a beer in my hand at a recent summer party, I couldn’t come up with even one of his apparently essential strategic questions I mentioned some of the business thinkers we often …
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Continue readingI prepared this grant seeker’s wish list for a foundation that had recently spun off from its corporate parent. What is it that nonprofits want or need from grant makers? At the very top, I put: # 1: Flexible, unrestricted operating funds. According to the most recent data from The Foundation Center, only 23% of …
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Continue readingI prepared this grant seeker’s wish list for a foundation that had recently spun off from its corporate parent. What is it that nonprofits want or need from grant makers? At the very top, I put: # 1: Flexible, unrestricted operating funds. According to the most recent data from The Foundation Center, only 23% of …
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Continue readingI prepared this grant seeker’s wish list for a foundation that had recently spun off from its corporate parent. What is it that nonprofits want or need from grant makers? At the very top, I put: # 1: Flexible, unrestricted operating funds. According to the most recent data from The Foundation Center, only 23% of …
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Continue readingI prepared this grant seeker’s wish list for a foundation that had recently spun off from its corporate parent. What is it that nonprofits want or need from grant makers? At the very top, I put: # 1: Flexible, unrestricted operating funds. According to the most recent data from The Foundation Center, only 23% of …
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Continue readingI prepared this grant seeker’s wish list for a foundation that had recently spun off from its corporate parent. What is it that nonprofits want or need from grant makers? At the very top, I put: # 1: Flexible, unrestricted operating funds. According to the most recent data from The Foundation Center, only 23% of …
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Continue readingI prepared this grant seeker’s wish list for a foundation that had recently spun off from its corporate parent. What is it that nonprofits want or need from grant makers? At the very top, I put: # 1: Flexible, unrestricted operating funds. According to the most recent data from The Foundation Center, only 23% of …
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Continue readingI prepared this grant seeker’s wish list for a foundation that had recently spun off from its corporate parent. What is it that nonprofits want or need from grant makers? At the very top, I put: # 1: Flexible, unrestricted operating funds. According to the most recent data from The Foundation Center, only 23% of …
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