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The Folk Dance of Nonprofit Organizational Development

Fundraising Coach

The Folk Dance of Nonprofit Organizational Development. Most beginning nonprofits seem to expect this for their organizational development: the team that launches the organization will be the same team in 10 years. I find it easier to think of organizational development as a folk dance.

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Krysta Grangeno Joins The Charity CFO As Chief of Staff

The Charity CFO

Krysta is incredible at project management and organizational development. As if her experience wasn’t enough, she also has a Bachelor’s in Social Work from SLU and a Master’s in Nonprofit Management from Fontbonne.

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Overcoming Barriers to influence: Leading without Formal Authority

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Influence is especially crucial for individuals who may not have formal leadership roles but still need to accomplish their objectives through others, such as HR professionals, development professionals, project managers, and other stakeholders. Just like managing any other project, maintaining the relationships is an ongoing task.

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Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation

NonProfit Quarterly

Increasingly, we’re calling ourselves coaches—and not consultants—because we know that organizational development that fails to center people does not achieve durable impact. This is not to deny that importance of more conventional measures—such as “Is this organization well managed?”

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A Checklist To Determine If Your Organization Is “Grant Ready”

Bloomerang

Grants can be a wonderful vehicle to fund a new program or expand an existing one; however, if your organization is new to the “grant world,” you may be unfamiliar with the work involved with both applying and managing grants. In other words, let’s look at the readiness to apply for grants and readiness to manage grant projects.

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Managing nonprofit employees (and volunteers)

Fundraising Coach

A great session I went to was on managing development staff by Betsy Rigby, Director of Development with Partners HealthCare. How assumptions affect our managing. In the 1960’s, MIT researchers came up with two theories of management, ingloriously named, Theory X and Theory Y. Theory X and Theory Y.

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Press Release: Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership Announces New Executive Officer Tom L. Hayashi

Anedot

Brenna Schlagenhauf Manager Marketing & Communications 707.890.8876 bschlagenhauf@cvnl.org. Tom comes to CVNL with over 20 years of fundraising, senior management, and consulting experience which represents direct engagements with over 100 organizations on an array of capacity-building projects and programming. Hayashi, Ph.D.,