Would you consider the Nonprofit you work for, or financially support, excellent?  I don’t know too many people who would want to work for a mediocre organization or give money to an adequate agency. Do you?  Okay, let’s get real… Do you work or volunteer for an unexceptional Nonprofit? Are you a Funder of uninspired […]

There are many reasons to consider inviting an Outsider inside your organization. Most always, it involves a specific outcome or objective that you need or desire to achieve. Are your donations lagging? Do you need fresh messaging? Have you lost key employees? If you already possess what needs to be accomplished inside your organization, you […]

With hundreds of fundraising tactics to choose from, how great would you feel if you could walk in perfect assurance that you were making the right choices? There are so many choices to choose from, aren’t there? You could increase your Facebook advertising. You could create a new landing page. You could raise your major […]

With hundreds of Best Practices to choose from, it is incumbent on the Nonprofit leader to carefully consider which Best Practices to prioritize for their organization as some are more important than others.  In other words, depending on the situation, some Best Practices should be weighted higher in order of importance. In reality, by selecting […]

It’s the Leader’s Fault The best Nonprofit leaders understand that a good strategy and a healthy culture ultimately control the level of operational competence your organization will achieve. Strategy decides your flight plan for organizational effectiveness, impact and sustainability by intentionally mobilizing people, allocating resources and implementing systems to arrive at a predetermined destination. Culture, […]

Have you ever met a Nonprofit leader that intentionally manages below operational competence? Neither have I. The problem is that only 6% of managers actually perform above operational competence. (Source: HBR 2017) 94% of all managers mistakenly assume that are above average in operational competency. They are not.  Is it any wonder that most Nonprofits […]

At a recent quarterly meeting reviewing donor mailing, a prominent Nonprofit discovered that they and their Agency had been over-mailing almost 20,000 pieces many times a year for over 10 years. Yes, potentially millions of direct mail pieces that should never have been mailed.  What!? How does that even happen?     In this case, it was […]

Nonprofit leaders share a primal instinct to maintain the minimum standard of operational competency in their respective area of responsibility. In short, this is the common survival mechanism that allows our leaders to serve another day. When a drop in operational competency occurs anywhere within the Nonprofit, the leader responsible experiences an immediate, unpleasant response that […]

If your organization is lacking in any area of operational competency, best practices can help. Best practices are the commercial or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective within a given industry or discipline. In essence, best practices are the currently accepted industry standard but here’s the wrinkle. Depending […]