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Jeff Magee – Blueprint to Organizational and Personal Success
Building and sustaining organizational greatness is like building any great structure: it starts with a proven blueprint. Crafting personal achievement and sustained success also starts with a proven blueprint. My years of academic [...]
Samantha Steidle – Supercharge Online Fundraising
Nonprofit organizations are competing in a highly digital marketplace that often leaves them behind due to a lack of resources. Here are the top 10 ways that your nonprofit can revamp its online [...]
Hugh Ballou – Nonprofit Board Idea Generation
Utilizing the nonprofit board of directors properly is an uphill climb for most leaders, whether leading a religious institution, local charity, national nonprofit, or educational organization. We've been taught leadership wrong and we [...]
Brian Sooy – There Are No Chance Meetings
"There are no chance meetings. I was supposed to come to see you." Those were the first words I heard from my colleague. Whether guided by divine appointment or the intent of [...]
Betsy Westhafer – Are You in the Arena?
“Leadership is all about relationships and to be in relationship (with anyone) is to be vulnerable. Every single day, leaders are called to navigate uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure - the only [...]
Scott Koorndyk – Sticky Ideas from a Non-Stick Source
As the leader of a nonprofit organization focused on accelerating the transition of ideas from the research laboratory to the marketplace, I'm fascinated by great innovations. Those innovations contain great lessons for [...]
Terrance DeShaun Smith – Leveraging Storytelling into Story-Doing
To attract brand ambassadors, advocates, and donors, nonprofits must build a platform and a movement. This allows us to capture attention and communicate with our audience. We must build trust, create an [...]
Jonah Berger – Ideas That Spread
Social benefit and nonprofit organizations need to grow to be effective. They have an important message and are doing really good work, but they need to get their message out there. It's [...]
Stacy Wellborn – Hashtags Raise Stories above the Fray
With nearly two-thirds of American adults using social media networking, it is increasingly important that nonprofits use this communication tool to engage audiences and disseminate their message. With so many users and [...]
Tammy Harden – Encourage, Equip, and Empower: 3e Restoration
What if serving others were something that didn’t drain us, but a process that both aided the holistic growth of the individual and also contributed to the development of an organization? That [...]
