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Join Our Team: Research Internship
Creation In Common, a 16-year old strategic services consulting firm working with regional and national nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies, is seeking a bright, highly-motivated, self-starter who wishes to advance their knowledge and expertise in the...
Strength Over Power: Framing Healthy Board Engagement in Fundraising
By Carlo M. Cuesta Most board members and volunteers have an unhealthy relationship to fundraising. They often place it within the context of having or not having enough power (personal wealth, connections, and influence). “Do I know enough wealthy people?”...
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Does Your Plan Execute?: 5 Principles to Follow as You Engage in Strategic Planning
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...
Client Spotlight: Commonweal Theatre Raises Together!
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...
Raise Together
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...
Join the Disability Hub MN Virtual Insight Panel (VIP)!
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...
SUPERHERO SPOTLIGHT: EMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Our clients are doing important, amazing, transformational work! This month, we're highlighting the work of our friends at EMERGE Community Development. What makes the EMERGE team a group of superheroes? EMERGE’s team is passionate about addressing the...
The Takeaway: The Fundraising Job Description for Board Members
At our March 16 webinar, The Board Member Fundraising Orientation, a question was asked regarding expectations and responsibilities of board members in the fundraising process. We shared the following: While each board member brings their own unique...
SUPERHERO SPOTLIGHT: EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY
We love to highlight the work of our clients! For this month’s Superhero Spotlight we talked to Peter Rachleff of the East Side Freedom Library. He is the co-founder along with Beth Cleary. Here’s what he had to say: What makes their team superheroes? The...