Creating more strategic, financially savvy, and confident nonprofit leaders and organizations.
I am in love with a new (for me) TV show. I’m sure you’ve heard of it since I’m late to the game — “Ted Lasso” is about a lovable American leader of a troubled English soccer team. But really the show provides an example of how to go through life as a force of […]
Do you struggle (as so many nonprofit leaders do) to raise money for: a top-notch fundraiser, solid technology and systems, fantastic marketing expertise, and other elusive (but oh so necessary) things that will make your work so much easier? Then this month’s free training, Embrace Capacity Capital, is for you! You’ve been taught for so […]
I know how scared you sometimes get. I see you tossing and turning in the middle of the night, terrified about how you will make payroll. Or worried that you will never attract truly helpful board members. Or working 80 hour weeks because you fear no one else will help. Or anxious to check your […]
The most amazing thing happened for one of my clients the other day — she shifted her fear into $500,000. I was in a session with one of my Strategic Advising clients (let’s call her Beth) who was anxious about an upcoming meeting with a long-time funder. It was time to approach this program officer […]
There was a really interesting article in Inside Philanthropy last week arguing that nonprofit leaders desperately need sabbaticals, therefore more funders should fund them. I completely agree with the first part, but strongly disagree with the second. Nonprofit leaders, like any human being, need large chunks of time away to rest, recharge, find inspiration again, […]
Now that I’m back from my summer sojourn taking my little Airstream camper all around the Western United States, I’m excited to reconvene our Free Training Series. This month’s training is Stop Resisting Money. If you struggle to attract enough, sustainable money to realize your social change goals, then this training is for you. Because […]
A key step in opening your organization to receive all the abundance — of money, people, influence, and power — you need to achieve your mission is fully embracing what is not working. Wait, what?? My guess is that you don’t like something about yourself as a leader and/or your organization. You might be the […]
My guess is that if you are leading a social change effort, you have likely been denying your own needs, and thus your own power, for far too long. I have found that the people attracted to the social change sector tend to be so concerned about their fellow humans that they more often than […]
I have said many times before that the social change system is broken. Because of deep historical, normative, and structural limits placed on social change leaders for decades, an overwhelming feeling of scarcity pervades the social change sector. Nonprofit leaders and funders alike believe that there simply is “never enough.” There is never enough money, […]
Note: I was asked by the Council on Foundations to blog about their “Leading Together Conference” last week. My post that follows originally appeared on their website here. I came away from the second day of the Council on Foundations’ Leading Together 2021 conference with an enormous amount of hope. Hope in humanity and in […]
