Not Just a Placard for Your Wall: How to Use Your Vision Every Day
Your vision. You struggle writing it word by word. When you finally get it right, you display it on your website, grants, and brochures. You refer to it when you work with your staff and board.
Vision is the fuel of your nonprofit engine. It’s your destination. It’s why you continue when the odds are against you. (See How to Write a Vision Statement.)
You already incorporate your vision into your work. How might you harness even more of …
What is the Best Way to Do Strategic Planning in Your Nonprofit?
You need a nonprofit strategy to guide your efforts to grow your revenue and supporters and to accomplish more mission. What is the best process to use? One that engages your board and gathers all of your potential nonprofit strategies under one umbrella for you to evaluate.
How to Write a Great Not-for-Profit Mission Statement
Are you struggling to find the right words to convey your mission? This video will help you to craft a unique mission statement for your not-for-profit organization. How should you start? How might you organize your words to share your important work? This short video will get you underway to writing a super not-for-profit mission statement.
Is Your Greatest Income Challenge What You Think It Is?
Answer honestly. During the past week have you said or thought one of the following?
I’m so busy.
Things are hectic.
There’s too much to do.
You’re not alone. Time management is the number one challenge nonprofit leaders face. You wear many hats besides the one attached to your title. No matter your role, you support the mission and income growth. You charm and engage board members, donors, customers, volunteers, and newcomers.
Here’s the reason time management so critical. You …
You’d like to work with a non-profit coach to build your career and your organization’s capacity. How can a coach help you to make a dramatic improvement in your nonprofit? What skills should you seek in a nonprofit coach? How will your non-profit coaching experience standout? This quick video gives you a flavor of the non-profit coaching experience and more.
Most planned gifts are bequests. Bequests from will average $70,000. You’d like more planned gifts for your nonprofit. How do you get them? Start a legacy society but first do this…
Waiting Well and Nonprofit Leadership: Make Delay Your Best Friend Forever
In another life, Elaine and Justin, a favorite couple of mine, gave me this sound advice: Do all the things you want while you’re still single. When you’re married, things get more complicated. My friends taught me how to wait well.
You also wait. You pursue more money, resources, donors, customers, and supporters. You know they’re coming, but they aren’t here, yet. How can you wait well? Set up your systems and process that will make your organization a success …
What’s the difference between a nonprofit vision vs. mission? You may be completely clear about the difference, but many nonprofit board and staff members get confused by these two concepts. Listen and share this video grow clarity in your nonprofit about these two essential and related ideas.
Operating Your Nonprofit in the Dark and Fog | How to Succeed Without Light
In the fog, the cove was pitch black. I couldn’t see the radio tower across the bay, a star, or the shore. Earlier that afternoon, the tide caught us when we’d anchored too close to shore. Now at 10:30 p.m. the tide was rising.
We needed to move the boat or stay stuck until the following day.
It should have been easy. We just needed to putter 100 feet-the length of two semi-trailers or 40 steps. I’d seen the open …
What’s the Secret to Boards that Take Smart Risks?
This brilliant advice comes from one of the interviews I did for my new book, Let’s Raise Millions Together. Implement it to create healthier boards that take calculated risks to launch your nonprofit upward and onward.
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Your vision. You struggle writing it word by word. When you finally get it right, you display it on your website, grants, and brochures. You refer to it when you work with your staff and board.
Answer honestly. During the past week have you said or thought one of the following?
