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Three Nonprofit Hiring Mistakes to Avoid

Friends who are playing golf will sometimes allow each other to “take a mulligan.” For the non-golfers out there, this means that when a player makes an especially horrible shot, they can try again and not suffer the consequences on the scorecard.

Shake Up Your Board Meeting

Boring nonprofit board meetings are deadly. Here are some ideas and resources to help make things interesting.

Strategic planning and your ecosystem

Nonprofits and funders in our sector need to operate with a clear picture of the key players, relationships, and track records involved in our issue areas.

Strategic planning to do more with less

In this political climate, many will have to do more with less. This means doing more with others. How do you do strategic planning for greater partnerships?

A strategic plan to measure impact

How can nonprofits document the effect of their programs? Here's one idea for our sector to tackle this critical issue.

Should your strategy always plan for growth?

Nonprofit leaders can face pressure from funders, board members, clients, and yes, even themselves, to grow. How healthy is this?

How does a nonprofit find the right consultant? (part one)

You've never hired a consultant before but it's clear you need some outside help. How do you figure out which consultant is going to make for a good fit?

How does a nonprofit find the right consultant? (part two)

You've never hired a consultant before but it's clear you need some outside help. How do you figure out which consultant is going to make for a good fit?

How do you find talent?

Finding and recruiting the right staff members is one of the key arts of leadership.

What do you look for in a potential board member? (part one)

Executive directors, especially new ones, need to pay close attention to this question from the beginning.

Superheroes for a world in crisis

During this crisis, our firm has especially focused our efforts on supporting key leaders in our sector. This support includes existing CEOs/Executive Directors who are receiving our coaching, strategic counsel, and facilitation of retreats for their teams.

Our focus also encompasses future leaders. Their growth is being accelerated during this crisis. A primary context for this work is Silicon Valley Next, a leadership program we developed for 12 of the most promising leaders of our sector.

In the most recent retreat, we led the Fellows through our "Superhero" exercise. Read more here about how the time revealed encouraging signs for our common future.

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