Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mistakes as an Executive Director One of the things I am most passionate about in this world is nonprofit leadership development. Though we were able to solve the challenges, it was an unnecessarily stressful time. Trying to grow too quickly My first Executive Director job was in the first month of the financial crisis of 2008.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This lack of financial security can have a complicating ripple effect throughout an organization, making it hard for leadership to make decisions, address crises, and forecast future opportunities. “An At the end of 2023, Kendeda will be “sunsetting”— winding down three decades and nearly $1.2

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Concord Leadership

MARCH 25, 2020

To say we’re in a time of unprecedented change and stress doesn’t do it justice. The post Leading through Crisis: Your approach to stress and what to do with it appeared first on The Concord Leadership Group, LLC. This Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is causing seismic shifts around the world.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MAY 22, 2023

What was initially considered a challenge has now become a workforce crisis in need of rapid remedy and long-term commitment to overcoming pre-existing problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some stress can be relieved or prevented by rethinking routine ways of operating.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. Without good leadership, everything falls apart. Without leadership, a small nonprofit may never reach its full potential.

Nonprofit Leadership 119

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Baking is a therapeutic, multisensory activity that mitigates anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Her curiosity led to research, and she found that baking is a therapeutic, multisensory activity that mitigates anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Today, it supplies over 50 stores in the region with its products.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

The challenges of the pandemic created even more stress and strife, and led to even more unrealistic expectations, sidestepping important decisions, and being yoked to inadequate and now irrelevant programming and communications tactics. We refer to this spectrum as CALM not BUSY. Silver Linings of the Pandemic. They experienced.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I recently spoke with Carla Minet, a journalist and executive director of the Center for Investigative Journalism in Puerto Rico, about what life is like on the island now and the key role of information in disaster response. Minet points out that Puerto Rico has had five major disasters in the last six years.

Governance 132

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Fundraising Leadership

MAY 5, 2023

Nor is one “mental health day” on a calendar of hundreds of stress-filled workdays going to make it all better. “ #Work may be the cause of stress and #mentalhealth concerns, but it is not a place where women feel comfortable talking about it, with only 25% saying they are comfortable talking about in 2023, according to @Deloitte. ”

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 5, 2020

Scandal ’s badass and fictional White House Communications Director Olivia Pope could solve a nuclear level crisis…IN AN HOUR. In the real world of fast-moving news stories, you need a little more time and preparation for crisis communications. How do you handle crisis communications WHEN THE WORLD IS IN CRISIS?

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Institutions, hierarchies, and forms of leadership rooted in Western colonial ideology are failing, being renegotiated, and getting deconstructed—even in the face of intense backlash. Our leadership, needed now more than ever, is being tested like never before. We are tasked with fighting for short- and long-term goals in tandem.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In Rochester, a nine-year-old girl suffering from a mental health crisis who verbalized suicidal thoughts was pepper sprayed by the police officers that responded to her family’s call to 911 for support. Youth Incarceration and the Criminalization of Mental Illness .

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Candid

JUNE 15, 2022

Please note that 1 and 2 were only green-lighted last month, due to our planned leadership transition in October 2021. And, despite enormous personal and professional stress, they continued to deliver data, resources, insights, and training to our colleagues across the sector, supporting their work at a crucial time.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

As anyone who has witnessed Founder’s Syndrome can tell you, the first leader is often abruptly shown the door, maybe under a cloud, leaving the organization in crisis. But for those toiling away in young nonprofits, it is often grueling and sometimes even cruel. Not all survive. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle.

Children 85

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In the past, survival literally depended on building connections with others to overcome threats and stresses, and humans thus have an evolutionary need to belong. In the past, survival literally depended on building connections with others to overcome threats and stresses, and humans thus have an evolutionary need to belong.

Psychology 103

Psychology Technology Leadership Management 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But there is a growing existential crisis amidst numerous converging and intersecting trends affecting every aspect of our daily lives, including the world of philanthropy. ” Carnegie saw that surplus and unequal wealth was an undeniable outcome of capitalism. ” Through this message, modern-day philanthropy was born.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Stress soared. Within “Leadership” criteria (“I understand the long-term strategy of this organization,” and “The leaders of this organization care about their employees’ well being”), positive responses peaked at 93% in 2021 (90% this year) among the top 50 and 82% in 2021 (76% this year) among the rest.

Associations 52

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Nonprofit Megaphone

JANUARY 11, 2024

Integral to this balance is the support and collaboration from the school’s leadership, the Board of Trustees, volunteers, and a dedicated Advancement team, highlighting how strong partnerships complement and enhance the impact of technology and personal relationships. However, the danger lies in resistance to change.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

If everything feels last minute and staff are constantly dropping things in your lap after the deadlines, that’s a cultural problem that will take time and leadership to change — and odds are that leadership will need to come from YOU. You don’t know what’s going to happen in the future.

Public and Nonprofit Management 46

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Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 15, 2023

Do the negative news stories, content and information we consume affect who we are, our state of mind, and how we work and move in the world? Emma Varvaloucas, executive director of The Progress Network, believes that is the case. ” “It seems everyone is hooked up to negative headlines in the U.S.

Culture 52

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The current water crisis puts communities and utilities at odds with one another. The US Water Alliance —a national nonprofit that aligns various stakeholders to solve this current water crisis—is tackling this issue head on. Image Credit: CDC on unsplash.com. One lasting economic shock is the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic.

Public and Social Policy 124

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 2, 2021

We have website designs, leadership tips, how Google works, what to post on social media and more. Lars Lofgren compiled a list of the Best Leadership Courses. And for more on leadership, Eric Peterson says Leaders Know the Condition of Their People. Are Awareness and Thought Leadership Legit Nonprofit Marketing Goals?

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Fundraising Leadership

JUNE 23, 2023

” Her claim of honesty about yourself aligns perfectly with the Leadership Intentioning Tool #1 of 9 created by Gloria Feldt, author of Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good , and co-founder and president of Take The Lead, “Uncover Yourself.” . “

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By Laura Calderon de la Barca , Katherine Milligan & John Kania As Brazilian author Paolo Coehlo writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

Public and Social Policy 137

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 23, 2023

million people, according to Meals on Wheels America, the leadership organization that supports local branches. Image Credit: Savahnah Pierre via Community Cooperative This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News. She called Suzanne Washington, who runs the local chapter of Meals on Wheels. Could you get to a cooling center?

Food 97

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 18, 2012

The director of our Young Leadership Division wrote an article on youngish adult leaders mentoring young leaders. Sherry Kirschenbaum. After the 10 Changes to Make in 2012 webinar, I received an email from Sherry Kirschenbaum about how her organization uses an editorial calendar to organize ideas for their newsletter and media pitches.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Like a lot of the stresses and fears we have, especially around fundraising, have really become magnified over the past year or so. Like a lot of the stresses and fears we have, especially around fundraising, have really become magnified over the past year or so. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. And I got two o’clock Eastern.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Like a lot of the stresses and fears we have, especially around fundraising, have really become magnified over the past year or so. Like a lot of the stresses and fears we have, especially around fundraising, have really become magnified over the past year or so. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. And I got two o’clock Eastern.

Fundraising 69

Fundraising Fundraising Activism Management 69

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this webinar, and we will be sending out the recording and the slides later on this afternoon. . So just be on the lookout for an email from me with all those goodies. . We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. You can even send us a tweet, I’ll keep an eye on those.

Nonprofit governance and management 93

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

In response, I returned to school to study fundraising and nonprofit sector leadership and their relationship to normative ethics. Do lead naming gifts actually stimulate high-level philanthropy from other donors and is that what motivates HNWIs to make such charitable contributions? This idea may not be as exaggerated as it sounds.

Ethics 111

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Image credit: Antares Vargas on istock.com Don’t call it a comeback: the labor movement has been in a state of steady resurgence and shows no signs of slowing down. Union organizers said this summer of strikes was a “hot labor summer” on national news. Let’s think about the conditions, demands, and strategy animating strikes in 2023. percent rise.

Healthcare 97

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Image Credit: Prince Akachi on unsplash.com The US is experiencing unprecedented rates of stress and mental illness. Even the American Psychological Association acknowledges the country is “facing a national mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social consequences for years to come.”

Health 102

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

People in leadership are finding their roles untenable, claiming it is “impossible” to execute campaigns or saying they are in organizations that are “stuck.”. We promote leadership and courage by individuals, but media exposure, social media fame, and access to resources compromise activists. Roots of the Crisis.

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