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Client Spotlight: Nonprofit Strategy in the Office and the Board Room
In preparation for Creation In Common's upcoming webinar -- Building a Strategic Board (October 18), I have been thinking about how nonprofit strategy means different things to different people within the organization. The last few months, I have spent just as much...
Defining the Nonprofit Brand Webinar
I want to thank everyone who attended the October 3, 2012 webinar -- Defining the Nonprofit Brand. Please follow this link to the slides. Also, if you are interested in learning more about our free Nonprofit Branding Needs Assessment, please go here. If you were...
Lessons from a Board’s Failure or Campus Coup Squelched
What I like about blogging is that you can write a post and the folks at the Nonprofit Quarterly take notice and want to publish it on their site. So you go ahead and rewrite it. Voila! New version of your post, written better with a much better title. Still focused...
University of Virginia: A case study in the power of the public will
Last June, the University of Virginia's governing body, called the "Board of Visitors," made an unexpected move. They asked University President Teresa Sullivan to step down. By the end of the month, the Board stunningly reversed its decision. What happened in between...
Idea for Next Board Retreat – Help Your Board Find Their Voice
You want to help your board members to engage around building influence and inspiring commitment for your organization? At your next board retreat, focus the conversation around these three key elements: The shared passion the everyone on the board holds for the...
A Collaborative Approach to Nonprofit Branding
Creation In Common's approach to nonprofit branding is based on one-on-one brand assessments we have conducted with over 250 organizations as well as several client engagements across multiple fields within the sector. If you are interested in learning more about our...
Building a Mission-Delivery Engine on the Web: Nonprofit Website Best Practice
For the Nonprofit Quarterly's Winter 2012 edition, Creation In Common's Carlo Cuesta writes: When the web emerged, in the 1990s, it was a seminal moment for the nonprofit community. The possibilities of enabling communication, interaction, and transaction around...
Client Spotlight: Scholarship America
This video features Scholarship America's CEO Lauren Segal discussing the organization's vision for the future. Creation In Common worked with this national organization to set its strategic agenda in 2011 and continues to help senior leadership evaluate its progress...
Your Promise Is Your Brand
This article originally appeared in the Nonprofit Quarterly in 2005. "We will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.”This declaration by President Kennedy is considered one of the most effective national promises ever made. Not because we were fascinated by...
Is 5:30 pm the best time for a board meeting? Really?
I was sitting in a board meeting this evening asking myself this question and at the same time my brain went click. Off it went. I just nodded my head for the rest of the meeting wondering if I had drool coming out of the side of my mouth. I know there is no such...
Defining Your Mission Statement
Here are three key ingredients to create an effective mission statement.
Overcoming a Disconnect with the Mission
Several year’s ago I was facilitating a meeting when the president of the organization said… “We are not who we are.” That odd statement codified what everyone was feeling in the room—lost. Somewhere along the organization’s journey it got detoured and ended up in a...