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Nonprofits need clear and inspiring strategic direction to motivate community, donors, staff, board, and decision makers. But what if that is not enough? What if clear outcomes, strategies, measures, and tactics move most of the team forward, but not everyone? Building a successful nonprofit initiative or program takes time, perseverance, optimism, and hustle. With success…

How building a logic model can help you create your “WHY statement.”

Your non-profit, no matter the size, runs on an important currency: information. Yet, interviews with staff and volunteers in almost every organization reveal a discontent with the way information is, or is not, shared. Even relatively open and transparent organizations have blind spots, secrets, hidden agendas, and personal biases that mean that not all information…

At the start of each year, personal finance experts remind us of some resolutions we can make for a sounder financial life: calculate your taxes early, reduce your debt, and build an emergency fund. It is important to have that emergency fund and to budget for those unexpected problems that modern life might throw at…

Is the direction of your work top-down, bottom-up, or…side-to-side? Bottom-up social impact spreads from the ideas, needs, wants, and often the organization of you and your neighbors. Perhaps you have banded together, or partnered with a community group. Your needs were clear, and highly motivating. Perhaps a local oil refinery’s toxic releases have led to…