Leadership and Management
Dive deep into leadership development and successful nonprofit management. These articles center around subjects such as: team empowerment, strategic planning, and ways to best leverage your nonprofit’s resources.
Is Diversity as Good for Business as it is for Communities? New Study Says Yes
Advocates for nonprofits tout the importance of diverse communities and social safety nets. A new study suggests it’s also good for business.
In These Turbulent Times for Nonprofits
There is so much potential out there to dramatically move the needle on social issues and drive impact, no matter the external environment.
How To Be a Community-Powered Nonprofit
Kevin Davis explains how nonprofit journalism organizations are working to gain donors’ trust by being community-powered.
First-Person Nonprofit: Making the Case (Statement!)
Alice Rossignol puts her pen to paper about a big professional first. She decided to leap – or maybe she got pushed.
How Nonprofits Can Work With Their Bankers Amidst Change
How to help your banker to give your nonprofit organization as much credit as possible.
First Person: I Am A Young Social Entrepreneur
What does it take to be entrepreneurial? Anika Stephens talks about young leaders who have already made a positive social or economic impact.
Nonprofit Mergers Are Like Falling In Love
Ron Kratofil shares tips and resources for nonprofit mergers. Mergers are a lot like dating, relationships and marriage.
Robert Egger: “Our Sector Is About To Be Hit, And Hit Hard” A Blue Avocado Interview
Robert Egger on advice to young nonprofit leaders, how the sector has changed, and why it’s more important than ever that we take risks.
Gearing Up and (Teaming Up) for a Leadership Transition
Some of the hardest moments we face happen during nonprofit leadership transitions. Nothing is ever as neat as it looks on the surface.
If Your Board Looked Like Your Community
Moving board diversity from a ‘problem to solve’ to ‘something to practice.’ Staff and board talk common hurdles and how to overcome them.