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Nonprofit Leadership: Where does your power come from?
About 14 years ago, I was invited to participate in a nonprofit leadership retreat on the grounds of an animal preserve. In fact, they told us not to go out walking after dark because you could end up face to face with an animal you might not want to be face to face...
Board Engagement — How to Enhance It
---- Additional Resource: Engage Your Board in the Fundraising Effort ---- A few years ago, I was working with Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners on their strategic plan and I learned a very important lesson about board engagement. During one of our...
Winter/Spring Free Webinar Schedule
The following is our listing of our free nonprofit capacity building webinars starting February 7.
Strategic Planning — Excerpt from The Public Milestone Strategy Webinar
This excerpt is from our recent webinar, The Public Milestone Strategy. It covers a strategic planning approach for nonprofit organizations. Please join us for our next webinar, Building a Strategic Board on January 15, 2013.
Board Leadership – From Dark Night of the Soul to the Edge of Possibility
Six months into my job as executive director of the Playwrights Center, I took my board President out to breakfast. I needed more help. We were overwhelmed as an organization, facing significant financial issues and I did not feel that she and many others on the board...
Board Development – Excerpt from Helping Your Board Tell Your Story – Webinar
This video is a brief excerpt from our Helping Your Board Tell Your Story webinar to assist you in your board development efforts. In this webinar we covered how to shape a compelling story and help your board members find their voice. In this excerpt, I go over the...
Nonprofit Branding – “Gilda’s Club” is More Than a Name
Nonprofit branding is more than a name or a slick tag line. In the November 29, 2012 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy there was an article about how a chapter of Gilda's Club changed its name to the Cancer Support Community Southwest Wisconsin. The executive...
On-Demand Webinar: Branding Your Nonprofit Collaboratively
Here is an essential resource for anyone embarking on nonprofit branding. This brief (6:30 mins.) on-demand webinar covers three steps to effectively brand your nonprofit collaboratively. Steps include: Step One - Assembling your stakeholder taskforce Step Two...
Every Board Member Has a Story
When I do my storytelling workshops with a board of directors, many members for the first time discover that they have something to say on the organization's behalf. There is no magic wand I wave, I just help them collect their thoughts rather than memorize a message....
How to Get Your Board Working on Your Non Profit Brand
At some point during a board meeting, a member says... "we need an elevator speech" or "we need to do a better job communicating who we are" or better yet "what is our brand?" Our response might be to write something down for them or report on our marketing plan....
Great Nonprofit Branding Example: I AM A STAR
Last Monday night I was guest lecturing for a class at the University of Minnesota about nonprofit branding and was completely (and happily) upstaged by the guest who followed me from the American Refugee Committee. She shared their remarkable I AM A STAR FOR SOMALIA...
Webinar Recording: Building a Strategic Board
The following video is an excerpt of our recent webinar -- Building a Strategic Board -- presented by Creation In Common's lead consultant Carlo Cuesta. We will be doing this webinar again on January 15, 2013. Go here for more information. Please don't miss, Creation...