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The Benefits of a Stronger Nonprofit Organization

March 25, 2014 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’ve written before about how hard it sometimes is for nonprofit leaders to ask for help. Donors, board members, regulators, and others put enormous pressure on nonprofit leaders to do it all with little (if any) help. So in an effort to help nonprofit leaders convince those around them about the benefits of getting help, […]

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 Coaching Can Transform a Nonprofit

May 20, 2013 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

There was a really interesting interview last week in the Nonprofit Quarterly with Bill Ryan, author of Governance as Leadership, who recently led a study on coaching in the nonprofit sector. Coaching is a form of management consulting where a leader is given one-on-one strategic guidance. An executive director can be coached to grow an […]

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 […]

Coaching a Nonprofit Leader to Success

November 28, 2012 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’ve been talking about strategic planning a lot lately (here and here) because I think it is so critically important to the success of a nonprofit organization. But it’s not enough to create a great strategic plan on paper, you have to implement and monitor it. This is why I insist that the strategic plans […]

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