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Board Engagement: The Most Unorthodox Development Committee Meeting Ever
"This will be the most unorthodox development committee meeting you have ever attended" promised Tom, the committee chair. Admittedly, I was skeptical, yet the energy in the room was palpable as more and more committee members stuffed themselves into the tiny,...
Nonprofit Strategic Planning: The Public Milestone Strategy
On May 23, we held a Free webinar on nonprofit strategic planning entitled The Public Milestone Strategy. Please click on the image or go here to view a recording and download the slides from this event. Please note, we ask folks to sign in. We will not send you...
Board Storytelling: An Activity to Help Your Board Find Their Voice
This video is a two-minute excerpt from our February 5th webinar on Helping Your Board Tell Your Story. In this section of the webinar, Carlo discusses the importance of safe environments for board storytelling. Here, he takes participants through a brief and easy...
Nonprofit Branding 2013: What has Changed?
Recently, the Nonprofit Quarterly and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management hosted an online discussion with me (Carlo), Kate Barr of Nonprofits Assistance Fund, Jeanne Bell of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Robin Katcher of Management Assistance Group, and our...
Beyond Fundraising: The Real Power of Storytelling
Today, I am leading a webinar entitled Helping Your Board Tell Your Story. For the last ten years, I have done many different iterations of this workshop for board members and staff, mainly because charities want to use stories to help them in their fundraising...
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...