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An Expert Shows You How to Build YOUR Culture of Philanthropy
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.
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How to Thank Your Board Members So They Engage More
Solve The Challenge of Thanking Your Board in Meaningful Ways As a nonprofit CEO, you face two distinct kinds of challenges: 1. Ones that need big sweeping solutions and 2. Issues that require small, practical, and constant actions. Thanking your board is a way that encourages them to engage more is the latter. Of course,[…]
How to Ace Your CEO Performance Review
Karen’s January 2021 CEO Conversation January 27, 2022, at 1 p.m. Eastern With Special Guest: Judith Lisi, General Director, Opera Tampa; President and CEO, Straz Center In the last year, have you had a performance appraisal? Even before the pandemic, many, if not most, more nonprofit CEOs and executive directors had not. (45 percent, Daring[…]
How to Find Younger Nonprofit Board Members
Have you ever had a moment of insight, like Joyce? Joyce glances across the ballroom and watches as the last of their donors and volunteers take their seats for the annual meeting. Joyce’s heart goes out to them. They are the best, she thinks. They are the ones who make the sacrificial donations, faithfully trim[…]
3 Board Recruitment Mistakes to Avoid
As you recruit nonprofit board members, avoid three common mistakes. Why? Your job satisfaction as a nonprofit CEO or executive director depends significantly on your relationship with the board. Board relationships often make the difference between that executive staying or resigning. In one study, it was the top job-specific reason CEOs resigned. (The other top[…]
How to Hire a Nonprofit DEI Consultant with Simma Lieberman
Are you considering investing in a diversity consultant? How can you choose among the plethora of options? After all, “Diversity is a big industry—about 8 billion per year gets spent on diversity trainings in America….” according to The New York Times. In this five-minute video, Karen interviews inclusion expert Simma Lieberman. Simma answers your DEI[…]
Debunking the 3 Employment Myths that Spark High Turnover
You seek to attract, keep, and reengage talented nonprofit employees. What’s one thing that gets in your way? Nonprofit employment myths, such as: the work is easy, everyone is nice, and that internal operations, therefore, are perfect. But that’s not all. Besides employment myths, you might also bump up against nonprofit money myths and nonprofit development[…]