Today, I received an email asking me to take a survey on the nonprofit sector and encountered a number of obstacles in getting to the survey. Here is my assessment and tips for improving the process.
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I attended the Organizational Health and Nonprofit Lifecycle seminar, held by Don Crocker and John Brother at the Support Center for Nonprofit Management. Understanding the life cycle is essential to any nonprofit’s continued success, no matter what stage it’s in (Idea/Startup, Growth/Maturity, Turnaround/Terminal Phases). They first discussed criteria for board development and gave specific advice […]
This reader comment on a New York Times article about electric cars caught my attention: “Just get NASCAR to change its rules to only allow electric powered cars to race and see how quickly the technology becomes not only affordable, but mainstream as well…†WAKE-UP CALL: The thought highlights the need for nonprofits to think beyond their […]
In their book, Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather MacLeod Grant describe the key practices they uncovered in studying a cross section of nonprofits that achieve large-scale results. Their key findings:
Why don’t nonprofits value intellectual capital, particularly marketing expertise, when it can prove crucial to the success of their cause? I encountered that question when I learned about a nonprofit organization that was planning a campaign to raise $300,000 for food pantries and safety net social services, as well as to engage the community in […]
The opening session of the National Nonpofit Congress held in June in Washington, DC, kicked off three days of conference sessions bringing together the best ideas to promote the public sector. Karrie Galloway, the Director of Friends of Guest House, shares the joys and challenges of helping recovering addicts to acclimate to society. Former heroine […]