By Carlo Cuesta   When doing your next strategic plan, your team will face the urge to transform everything. Your team will want to use the planning process to better understand their place in the organization’s future. And, your team will want to use the planning process to get clear on what they need to […]

By Hal Cropp   For many years, I experienced what I’m sure is a phenomenon that many Executive Directors of small nonprofits have encountered – a lack of focus when it came time for the Board to address its responsibilities for fundraising. You know the symptoms – grab bags of ideas that may or may […]

Do your board and volunteers run and hide when you bring up fundraising? Do they get squeamish about asking for money? Or, do they want to help but don’t know how?   Raise Together can help!   Raise Together will transform your board and volunteers into an effective fundraising team. Raise Together is an assessment […]

What is the Virtual Insight Panel? The Virtual Insight Panel is bringing together a wide-ranging group of Minnesotans who will volunteer to shape and inform communications and programs for people with disabilities. The panel was created and is managed by Disability Hub MN in partnership with the Department of Human Services.   What are the […]

  By Anne Jin Soo Preston When I was serving on the board for Springboard for the Arts, the organization experienced exponential growth in budget and staff and, as a result, a significant increase in financial and governing oversight for the board. There was a lot of confusion between what the board should weigh in […]