“We don’t need to pay someone to flip charts…we can do that ourselves.”Those words rang in my mind as I thought about our need to conduct a fresh strategic planning process. They had been said to me in an Executive Committee meeting three years earlier.To give...
Back on the farm, dear old Granddad wasn’t easily impressed. He had high expectations for us kids, and often acknowledged our achievements with indifference…to “keep us humble,” he would say. (After he passed, we found the scrapbook where he kept notes, newspaper...
Originally published in 1996, The Millionaire Next Door is required reading for any nonprofit executive who has fund development as part of his or her job (and that would be everyone). After all, if you’re going to offer these people the opportunity to invest in your...
Oops. That title is mis-leading. What I should have said is “Why I thought I hated email templates…but why I love them now.” Back when I was running a nonprofit, I was perpetually drowning in email. Occasionally I would do an internet search or ask a mentor for...
Back in college, I was a member of a student group that was struggling to recruit new members. We found it difficult to convince new folks to join our group, and if they did join, we struggled to keep them engaged. It was frustrating, because we knew we were doing...
