Are all your fundraising systems in line?
Interestingly enough, I met with a wonderful and highly intelligent gentleman this past week. As we were eating lunch, we started talking about systems thinking. It reminded me of a mentor who once said that we needed to be reading people like…
The importance of the agenda to good governance
Good governance doesn't end at creating a Governance Committee of the board or even of establishing processes for governance such as policies and procedures, or even developing new committee structures.
Governance has only begun. It continues…
Governance, follow the leader?
So, who leads the governance process? Is it the Board? Is it the staff?
I wondered to what role does the staff or Board play in shifting a culture that is not longer useful? In fact, sometimes a management culture can be downright disruptive…
Love me or lose me – How donor communications can do both.
We often talk about banning jargon when we speak to others about our organization. And, that is so needed. But, I would like to take it one step further, and say that we are not here to "educate" our donors about what we do.
They don't…
