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What Nonprofit Leaders Really Need

November 21, 2013 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

Earlier this month, there was a great post by Linda Wood from the Haas Fund bemoaning the fact that 73% of nonprofit leaders in a recent Center for Effective Philanthropy study said they lack resources to build their leadership skills. And the recent Meyer Foundation Executive Director Listening Project found that nonprofit leaders’ biggest challenges […]

How Nonprofits Can Face the Challenge of Change

February 22, 2013 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

There was a really interesting article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy recently about a Los Angeles nonprofit for aging Hollywood actors that was in danger of closing its doors but is now raising hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s a rags to riches story that demonstrates how nonprofit leaders who embrace change when change is […]

From Nonprofit Scarcity to Social Change Abundance

February 11, 2013 By Nell Edgington 11 Comments

Bill Shore, founder of Share Our Strength, a nonprofit aimed at ending childhood hunger in America, wrote a really interesting post recently. He argues that nonprofits must be more bold, that the risk aversion that defines the sector is itself holding nonprofits back from creating change. Shore encourages nonprofit leaders to figure out exactly what […]

Reader Question: How to Make Time for Strategy

February 7, 2013 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I announced last month that I was recommitting to the Reader Question Series on the blog. I received some really great questions, thanks to all of you who submitted a question. As I read through the questions, I thought it might make sense to combine two of my new year’s resolutions (the relaunched Reader Question […]

Overcoming the Loneliness of the Nonprofit Leader

January 30, 2013 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

Being the leader of a nonprofit can be incredibly lonely. You have a million demands on your time, countless people to keep happy, ambitious (if not impossible) goals to achieve, and few resources with which to achieve them. It can be an overwhelming place to be. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I […]

What Does Your Nonprofit Struggle With?

January 28, 2013 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I launched a Reader Questions series on the blog a little less than a year ago, but I have to admit I have been lazy about soliciting questions for it. The one time I asked for reader questions I got great ones and did a couple of blog posts responding to those questions here and […]

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