- What Will Capacity Building Look Like In This Decade?
Rather than waiting to see what the new developments will be, I want to ask my colleauges, clients, and fellow third sector participants for their input. I am curious what is on your minds - what do you want to know right now? If you run a nonprofit, what kind of information about your organization would be helpful for you to know more about? ...
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- Need-Based Planning in Nonprofit Organizations
For the past twenty years, we have experienced a period of huge economic growth. The effect of that economic growth on the nonprofit sector has been a parallel growth in “capacity building” projects, such as strategic planning. Foundations realized that the nonprofit sector was growing and needed to improve its organizational capacity to keep pace ...
- Tips for Managing in Hard Times
Many of my clients are looking at strategies for managing their nonprofits during this recession. The first wave of reactions was, in many cases, layoffs or furloughs. Now that the dust has settled from the emergency response, there is a need to adjust the management mentality to a recession economy in other ways as well. [...]
- Gross National Happiness in the Third Sector
As the economy profited in the last decade from mortgage backed securities and boundless Wall Street imagination, many nonprofits sought to put more business people (especially those with deep pockets) on their boards. During the same decade, foundation funders became intensely interested in nonprofits being able to document their effectiveness. ...
- What Are We Measuring?
In the past decade, there has been a focus on assessment and evaluation. Much of this focus has come from foundations, who want more justification of the effectiveness of nonprofit strategies. The result has been many nonprofits looking for data they can measure – how many people served, how many programs run, etc. I call [...]