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You don’t have to be great at everything!

Concord Leadership

In a recent coach certification class discussion, we were talking about the benefits of helping our clients explore their hardwiring.

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The surprising three levels of hardwiring

Concord Leadership

While we start Quadrant 3 Leadership coaching wherever the client is, a common place to start is with the “Hardwiring” circle. As a leader, you’ve likely heard a lot about “hardwiring.” Too often, hardwiring assessments result in labeling ourselves and others and then […].

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Crossing the Chasm: Nonprofit Fundraising Strategies and Systems are All Wrong for This New World

NonProfit Hub

Are we just hardwired to give 2%? They’ve come to expect a level of access, professionalism, and convenience. And they expect the exact same level of convenience from the causes they support. Nonprofit giving in America has been stuck at 2% of GDP for 45 years. What is causing this? Is it the tax code? It’s keeping us stuck.

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Why Nonprofit Stories are the Secret to Success

NonProfit Hub

In the USA, the number of registered 501(c)(3)s jumped from around one million in the mid-1990s to over 1.5 That is the equivalent of 801 new 501(c)(3)s being created each week…for more than a decade! And “501(c)(3)” is only one classification of nonprofits. Personally, I am excited for this new level of accountability.

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Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Standing in the future, we can look back and see that one of the things we had to collectively affirm is that we are done with calling people out. Calling out leads to cancel culture; cancel culture is ineffective and divides us further. We’ve all experienced this resistance. Yes, we really mean no matter what.

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Why fundraisers must understand the 6 common elements of every donor’s hero story

iMarketSmart

Humans are hardwired to communicate by story. So, too, we are hardwired to think in terms of the hero story. As fundraisers, what exactly do we have to offer donors? Their gift goes away. Even if we call it an “investment,” it doesn’t give them any financial benefits. (Or Or at least none worth the cost of the gift.). The heroic donor.

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Uprooting Oppressive Values in Social Change Work through Emotional Intelligence

NonProfit Quarterly

To lead change at all of these levels in a way that is effective and sustainable, and in a way that allows us to be well in the process, we must do our own internal work and support others to do the same. Below the surface there is a whole root system where the fuel of the plant lives.

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