What could your organization do if you just had the money? Something big, ambitious, and grand? Glennda Testone busts some myths and provides indispensable tips for a lucrative campaign.
Read MoreResource: Succession Planning: A Downloadable Guide
Leadership transitions are a time of vulnerability and anxiety for staff, board members, donors, and volunteers. What if it didn’t have to be? Conduct your next transition with ease and confidence.
Read MoreMasterclass: Strategic Visioning the Practical Way
Exciting, energizing, engaging… Would you guess this describes strategy work? Learn how to get you, your board, and your staff aligned about what matters most: Your organization’s future.
Read MoreStephanie Paul: Creating a Roadmap for Your Organization’s Future
Just 5 weeks before the start of the global pandemic, Stephanie Paul took on a new role as the Executive Director of myFace — and she was immediately faced with a major challenge. The org needed to reinvent itself to better serve its clients. Stephanie was able to achieve this vision in just 20 short months thanks to her strategic framework for setting and tracking goals. In this expert seminar session, she walks you through it and shows you how to create a roadmap that will help you lead your org to its desired future.
Read MoreResource: Crisis Management Matrix
In an effort to get you as a nonprofit leaders to face “worst case scenarios,” here’s a template you can use to think through challenges that could befall your organization.
Template: People, Narrative
Read MoreQuick Win: Basic Program Evaluation and Easy Outcomes Tracking
This Quick Win is designed to help you introduce a basic program evaluation into your nonprofit.
Quick Win: Programs
Read MoreMasterclass: Goals, Strategies, Tactics… Oh My!
The members of the Village have been asking for me to help to clarify the distinctions between these things for some time.
Course: Strategy
Read MoreQuick Win: Not Your Grandma’s SWOT Analysis
Analyze your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Ask these questions and then dig on the answers that are unclear, too vague, or aren’t really getting to the heart of the matter.
Quick Win: People
Read MoreMasterclass: How to Create a Theory of Change
In this masterclass, Kathleen Kelly Janus shares her “theory-of-change” playbook for nonprofit organizations based on an amazing five-year research project interviewing hundreds of top performing social innovators.
Course: Strategy
Read MoreMasterclass: Using Logic Models
In this Masterclass, Lindsay Hoffman teaches us how (and why) to create and use a Logic Model diagram for a program.
Course: Programs, Strategy
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