Leadership and Management
Enhance your nonprofit leadership skills with practical advice and expert insights on a wide range of leadership and management topics.
From strategic planning and decision-making to team building and organizational development, discover the resources you need to inspire and empower your team.
The Secret to Continuous Innovation
Everyone wants to innovate, but few of us have the time and energy. But what if there was a way to add value despite limited resources?
None of Us is Getting Out Alive: A Guide to Executive Succession Planning
The work you do now to plan for executive succession could mean the difference between whether your organization withers or thrives later.
Reproducing Reproducers: Creating a Legacy of Leadership Succession
If you are not creating and investing in the right system, you are putting your nonprofit’s long-term sustainability at risk.
Smart Growth: How to Expand Your Nonprofit’s Programs While Resisting Temptations
Do what works best to advance the mission statement of your nonprofit. At the end of the day, the juice has to be worth the squeeze.
Setting Organizational Goals: Does your team know what to do?
In the day-to-day firefighting of the nonprofit world, quantitative goals can lessen the chance for misunderstandings.
Ensuring Dogs and Cats Get Equal Scratch in Decision-making
Every organization is made up of cat people and dog people. This framework can help with equity and inclusion in decision-making processes.
The Growth Paradox for Nonprofit Organizations
Often nonprofits can have unchecked appetites for growth, which combine with structural factors that make such growth haphazard.
How to Improve Nonprofit Culture Through Mission and Values Realignment
We hire new staff, we hold team-building events, we might even bring in a consultant to determine the causes. But there is one area that is often overlooked when trying to fix problems: the culture of the organization and its connection to mission and values.
Role of the Nonprofit CFO in Executive Management: The CFO-ED Relationship
The efforts you make to meet the ED’s needs and assert your needs will pay off for both the ED, the CFO and the community.
Why Social Movements Require Entrepreneurial Values
While more and more in our sector push for real systems change, here are three practices that could advance nonprofit justice work.