Nearly every day I receive an e-newsletter or two that includes ideas for two “hot” nonprofit topics: “How to connect with younger donors” or “How to engage board members.” While these topics don’t naturally seem to intersect, a story recently shared at the AFP-WA Major Gifts Symposium got me thinking about how they might. Drawing on [...]
If we want to raise the bar for philanthropy here in the Northwest, I’m beginning to think that the place we must start with is a wholesale upgrade to the management skills of the leaders within our nonprofit organizations. I know too many executives who are simply resigned to the high turnover rates of their [...]
Do you remember the repeated calls for board diversity in the past few decades? The number of articles you read and the professional sessions you attended devoted to the topic? The strategic plans your boards created that included goals around this topic? The moment when foundations began to ask about board diversity as part of [...]
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