Your organization delivers solutions to our most difficult challenges. You improve lives. You solve challenges. You offer hope and optimism in a world of gloomy headlines. Despite your high value, achieving results isn’t easy. To create these impacts, you align your board, staff, donors, and others to advance toward your vision.
You do good work. You help the illiterate read. You place paintbrushes in frail seniors’ hands. You organize programs to solve pressing public problems. You do a myriad of things to make lives better. Despite its joys, not-for-profit work is hard, and it’s not for wimps.
Whether it’s a seminar, workshop, or keynote, Karen helps you to create events that exceed your guest’s expectations. Karen delivers customized, interactive, and practical presentations leaving your guests energized and ready to implement what they’ve learned.
Everyone has a role in bringing revenue and resources to your organization. Let’s Raise Nonprofit Millions Together offers you a framework to inspire your board members, staff, and others who champion your not-for-profit to discover they can fundraise and actually enjoy it. Rally your team to raise remarkable revenue together.
Karen delivers customized, interactive, and practical presentations leaving your guests energized and ready to implement what they’ve learned. Here’s a behind the scenes look at a recent session, Stop Leaving Sponsorship Dollars on the Table with the St Petersburg Art Alliance.
The session was designed to help leaders bump up their sponsorship revenue. Listen to John Collins, Executive Director, as he talks about this sell-out event. Board member Susie Betzer called it, an “excellent presentation.” She was “amazed at the value of the fast-paced brainstorming groups.”
Your board wants to help. Yet, they’re unsure what fundraising means. Or worse, your board assumes you’re asking them to “beg for money.” It’s not your fault. Your board of directors arrived on your doorstep with a limited or even faulty understanding of how philanthropy, development, and fundraising improve lives. You can conquer this challenge.[…]
On Feb. 25 at 11 a.m., Eastern, Karen’s hosting an intimate 45 minute, pro-bono Zoom conversation for CEOs and executive directors (best for those with revenues greater than $700k) about effective nonprofit boards. It’s a rare interactive opportunity to explore high-level thinking with other nonprofit executives about your board. If you would like to join[…]
Perhaps you, like millions of other people, saw the Oscar-winning movie Frozen. Frozen tells the story of two sisters, Anna and Elsa. Elsa is an unusual child: she can freeze things. When Elsa creates snow slides, both sisters have a blast. When Elsa accidentally freezes Anna, trouble ensues. Some boards are like Elsa. They inadvertently[…]
Why is effective strategic planning critical to nonprofit executives? Because of what happens to the board. Bold processes move boards toward greater engagement, understanding of their role, and effectiveness. Plus, they set the board’s efforts in the right direction–working on the strategy. Let me give you an example . . . We were[…]
