Executive Issues

You cannot generate a consistent flow of dollars without an experienced and dynamic resource development staff. Unfortunately, for many of us in the profession, keeping qualified and trained development officers is easier said than done.

These are uniquely challenging times for nonprofits, but organizations can look internally to maximize potential and remain operational. For nonprofit leaders navigating this difficult season, here are three tips to get started today.

Nonprofits need money to make social good happen. We just need to spend all our money on our mission and can’t give it to shareholders. Nonprofits must consider themselves businesses first before they layer on their unique, social-good-generating challenges.

Nonprofits tend to make do until a clear, and feasible, alternative presents itself. This and other unique challenges can hinder our efforts when we are working to build a more equitable workplace.

Escape the traditional nonprofit trap: the let’s-find-the-fly-in-the-ointment approach to growth. It’s a favored practice among nonprofit leaders and boards — innocent on its face, but with the potential to suck the life out of an organization. Here are five ways to keep an enterprising startup spirit alive.

Lack of alignment can happen at any level because subordinate employees do not have the tools to see if their work aligns with the strategic plan. They may know their nonprofit needs to raise $14 million, but not the organizational goal of retaining more event participants and transitioning them to sustaining donors.

Many of us choose to have a career in the nonprofit sector. In addition to changing nonprofit jobs and focus areas over time, we aspire to be nonprofit leaders over time. If you aspire to be a nonprofit leader, you need a strong behavioral tool kit to thrive.

It’s easy to dismiss the idea that leadership doesn’t matter. Someway, somehow, things will just turn out the way they’re supposed to happen. However, leadership — particularly high-quality leadership — matters now more than ever for the nonprofit sector. Therefore, it's vital for nonprofit leaders also to have these five competencies.

One of the most admirable aspects of nonprofits is how dedicated they are to their core mission. But sometimes, this devotion leads nonprofits to develop a blind spot: their own organizational health.

Nonprofit leadership across the country should be chomping at the bit to attract motivated, purpose-driven candidates among the millions searching to hit the reset button on their careers in search of a more meaningful path. Here are the three steps nonprofits must take advantage of during the Great Resignation...