Executive Issues

When leaders and teams feel seen and recognized with their pain and their strengths, organizations move forward.

Creating a nonprofit mission statement is an essential activity. It helps with the vision of the organization and in fundraising.

Who is driving your strategy right now? Your CEO or COO? Your program person or IT lead?

At Peer to Peer Advanced, Jennifer Lee will show how the National Multiple Sclerosis Society got ready for transformation.

At the Foundation Fighting Blindness, we were faced with the need to create a new website from scratch and more.

Rebranding is an opportunity for more articulate storytelling about your nonprofit’s mission and the work it does to achieve it.

The African proverb speaks to the need for nonprofit managers to be aware of how their actions affect those they manage.

Having interacted with all types of organizations over the years as donor, employee and consultant, I can say that many nonprofits encounter similar challenges to strategic planning, fundraising and board leadership. While it’s comforting to know that you’re not alone, you’re still left with the ultimate dilemma of how to address these issues. 

While universal “cost-to-raise-a-dollar” metrics can be debated, one thing that cannot be debated is how funds are used by nonprofits to benefit the communities they serve. What are the actual outcomes? Did the nonprofit improve lives through a variety of verifiable factors?

Redefining What Leadership Means to Today's Nonprofit