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When nonprofits dive into strategic planning, the resulting brainstorming sessions often brim with creativity and enthusiasm. Program expansions, fundraising approaches, collaborations, events—all sound increasingly achievable as they become baked by...
Many nonprofits find themselves trapped on a content-creation hamster wheel, churning out a load of material that often lacks the impact and memorability needed to engage their audience.This relentless focus on quantity over quality exhausts resources and...
In the often hectic world of nonprofit management, it's easy to overlook one aspect crucial to organizational success: board development.While staff roles often evolve to meet rapidly changing needs of the communities they serve, boards tend to move at a...
In recent workshops we facilitated for nonprofit leaders, we noted that many organizations lack a fundamental communications calendar aligned with strategic fundraising.That means they have no preplanned, well-thought-out approach for soliciting...
Strategic planning is often viewed by nonprofits as a necessary yet expensive and impractical exercise, encouraging at best only incremental rather than meaningful growth.
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats—SWOT, more familiarly. One would think that if an organization really fleshed out these four crucial business pillars using a SWOT analysis, nothing could escape improvement or growth. However, while the...