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Writing a not for profit vision statement is an exercise of the head and heart. You need a compelling, exciting, and realistic picture of your future. Listen to this video to get some quick tips to get you started to write an inspiring vision statement for your nonprofit organization.
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A quick look at a nonprofit income stream that can provide you with new revenue. What is earn non-mission revenue? What are its benefits? Challenges? Your peers earn this revenue, do you?
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What is mission drift? How can you avoid drifting away from what’s most critical to your organization? Watch this video to learn the most important questions to ask to avoid mission drift.
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It was a dark and clear night.
We were ending a Bahamas cruise in a 40-foot motor sailor. The captain sat at the wheel. I stood at the navigation station, desperately searching. My job was to find one flashing every-three-seconds green light at the harbor entrance.
The problem? After dark, Ft. Lauderdale’s ablaze with lights. The consequence of failure? Run aground or be run down by a cruise ship.
Ahead hundreds of lights flashed. Car brakes. Street signs. Tankers, like …
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I was pinned under a 200-pound guy, and he had scissors. The volunteer assignment was simple: help a young man with developmental disabilities to learn a new skill, one-on-one. We were working on learning scissor use.
How did I end up flailing on the floor needing assistance?
I had a clear goal for my college volunteering experience: Explore different ways to help people reach excellence.
What I didn’t anticipate were my physical limits. I am what fashion designers call petite …
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Visions matter. Visions are the DNA of success, of monumental change, of dreams–coming true.
Visions inform the world. They energize labor and recruit resources. Moreover, like a tunnel leading to your grand entrance, visions align friends and supporters and their energies in one direction.
However, and you knew this was coming . . .
How is it possible that your vision, universally perceived as good, might destroy good works? Visions when …
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I listened to 50 promises. It was the end of a three-day event about earned revenue opportunities. During it, participants heard dozens of inspirational success stories. They learned about the infrastructure behind success. They’d completed plans for their nonprofits. Now with my prompt, they publicly committed to use them.
When it …
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The other day, after a struggle, I developed a new strategy. A friend commented how excited I was—and the lightness in my being as compared to the days before when I was struggling to find one that would work.
Why is strategy–knowing the best path to your vision now—so energizing?
It empowers you to know that your can achieve your goal.
It works like this:
The right strategy
allows you to
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Create a plan
that allows you to
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Martin Luther King. Abraham Lincoln. George Washington. In winter, we remember the birthdays of American leaders. Considering the underside of our history, we have much for which to be thankful. Things might have all turned out much worse.
Washington was the only founding father who freed his slaves. This was no passing gesture. He meant what he said. For more, read Henry Wiencek’s An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. During the civil war, …
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Finding The Best Strategy to Bridge The Gap
Are you energized by an exciting wonderful vision for your nonprofit? How can you close the gap between where you are now and move to your vision as effectively and as efficiently as possible? With effective strategy, of course.
This Visual, Strategy Options “Hurricane Tracks” gives you a picture of a nonprofit engaged is examining several strategies and the possible impacts of their choices. It is helpful because:
