Posted in Activism, Board of Directors, Capacity-building, Communication, Foundations, Grantmakers, Leadership, Management, Outcome Measurement, Technology on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Nonprofit Good Practice Guide, a free online resource, captures and organizes good practices for nonprofits and foundations.
There are thousands of effectiveness-building tips and resources on topics including:
Accountability and Evaluation;
Advocacy;
Communications and Marketing;
Foundations and Grantmaking;
Fundraising and Financial Sustainability;
Governance;
Management and Leadership;
Staff Development and Organizational Capacity;
Technology; and
Volunteer Management.
Source: National Council of Nonprofits
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Today’s Washington Post, listed the top 10 Kennedy Quotations (i.e., John, Robert, Ted, John, Jr.). As we send healing and hope to Senator Ted Kennedy while he recovers form recent brain surgery, let’s remember the true leadership of this U.S. dynasty. The quotes are here.
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One of my all-time favorite management gurus is W. Edwards Deming. In my opinion, Deming along with Peter Drucker were the most important management minds of the 20th century. Here, on a cold, rain sunday night is a wonderful taste of his wisdom:
The prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born [...]
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Greatness lives among us. Nick Anderson, a teenage from Conway, Mass. approached Oxfam about going to Darfur after co-founding a successful national high school challenge to raise awareness and funds for Darfur by using the social networking site, Facebook.
As the co-founder of a highly successful fundraising initiative, Nick helped to raise more [...]
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Posted in Leadership on September 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My September 14, 2007 post was on nonprofit board performance . An important context for the article was the book Good Enough . . . Isn’t Enough by Alan Weiss, PhD. Dr. Weiss kindly commented on my post. This drove me to review his website. What I found was a treasure [...]
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The Salvation Army is rightfully considered one of the most effective, best-managed nonprofit organizations in America.
In five brief paragraphs, they summarize their value-based operating guidelines.
Keep first things first. To put it another way, the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. It requires a constant reminder to everyone in the [...]
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I’m an enormous fan of Margaret “Meg” Wheatley. She writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for leading in chaotic times. Meg draws many of her ideas from new science and life’s ability to organize in self-organizing, systemic, and cooperative modes.
Listen, let in, what she says about leadership.
“There is a [...]
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On June 29, 2005, Spain became the fourth nation in the world to offer legal marriage to same-sex couples. The law states: “Matrimony shall have the same requirements and effects regardless of whether the persons involved are of the same or different sex.”
Before Parliament voted to approve this bill, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero [...]
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As the nonprofit sector grows, it faces perhaps its greatest challenge in its long history of service to America – an acute leadership shortage. According to a study by the Bridgespan Group, nonprofit organizations will need 640,000 new senior leaders over the next 10 years. That’s 2.4 times today’s number. And the [...]
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig was rejected by 121 agents, editors, and publishers (the author kept track). In 1974, a single editor at Morrow felt that the book may have some market appeal. Persig was paid an advance of $3,000 and his editor informed him that it was highly unlikely [...]
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