Roundtable: Nonprofit Strategic Plans that Deliver Results

There is nothing permanent except change. The dynamic organization, in order to survive and thrive, must envision the future and reform itself to meet it, thereby shaping its own destiny. To remain static – to resist change – spells disaster. It is better to be active in shaping those changes

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Roundtable: 6 Steps to Make Your Board More Involved and Effective at Fundraising

The release this week of Giving USA 2018: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2017 contained both encouraging trends as well as signs of potential concern that nonprofit board members should be thinking about as they plan their fundraising efforts. As expected, charitable contributions increased significantly in 2017,

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Budget Planning: 5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Fail Financially & How To Avoid Them

This is the time of the year when many nonprofit organizations are focused on preparing their budgets for the new fiscal year that will begin in July. As you complete your budget checklist, it’s important to look beyond just the next year’s finances, and think about the long-term sustainability of

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Roundtable: Succession Planning for Nonprofits – Managing Leadership Transition

Developing leadership at all levels – and retaining high-performance employees in a competitive talent market – is one of the most important things a nonprofit organization can do to ensure its sustainability and success. This means building and cultivating a pipeline of high performers and leaders, and taking steps to

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Roundtable: Time to Get Serious About Social Enterprise

With diminishing charitable donations and public funding becoming a major issue for many nonprofit organizations, today’s nonprofit leaders are looking to social enterprise as a way to generate potentially significant sources of unrestricted cash that will reduce their nonprofit’s reliance on traditional funding to support its mission and achieve its

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Business Planning

Roundtable: The Nonprofit Business Plan – A Tool for Organizational Success & Increased Funding

In a world of diminishing resources and ever increasing demands for improved service delivery, the pressure on nonprofit organizations to do more with less grows each day. The nonprofits that will survive are the ones who can critically self-assess their organization and best communicate their value to funders. Foundations – like everyone

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Roundtable: Managing Your Nonprofit Under the Proposed Trump Budget

Many nonprofits are understandably worried about the additional financial pressures that may be created by the new Trump administration’s budget priorities. The preliminary budget proposal released in March raises concerns in two major ways: Sharp reductions in federal funding support for nonprofits, particularly in social services and in arts and

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Roundtable: Organizational Assessments: A Solution to the Questions That Keep Some Nonprofit Leaders Awake At Night

“What keeps you awake at night?” To this, many nonprofit leaders respond that they wonder whether their organization is structured to maximize potential. For example: Do I have the right people in the right place doing the right things at the right time? Are there organizational weaknesses that could pose

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Roundtable: Should My Nonprofit Collaborate?

Why Collaborate? True collaboration is a mutually beneficial and well-defined relationship, in which two or more organizations work together to realize shared goals. With 1.4 million charities in the U.S., and growing, there continues to be talk and pressure for collaboration.  Why?  Here are just a few reasons: Duplication of

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Roundtable: Tips for Finding the Right Nonprofit Executive Director

Hiring the right executive director is perhaps the most important decision that a nonprofit Board can make.  The search process behind this decision can be long and unruly; or it can be thorough and productive. By breaking down the process into tasks and conducting them with integrity, search time can

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