I love listening to public radio. Today, I caught the tail end of a history program called “Walter Edgar’s Journal.” The guest, Jack Warren, was talking about the amazing defeat of the British Navy at Sullivan’s Island in the summer of 1776,...
In our coaching work, we’ve received another wave of nonprofit leaders wanting the “next big gift.” It’s perfectly reasonable to expect results from the major gift officer or a development director you just hired. But one client had her...
Today is the second to last #FollowUpFriday of 2015! And for many of us, it’s the last Follow Up Friday landing on a work day. So today, why not make one of your follow up actions today was reviewing the year, looking for: what went right, what you’d like...
Last week, executive coach John Fulwider gave a class for The Nonprofit Academy called Better Together. Based on his book with the same title, he was teaching how to build strong relationships between board chairs and nonprofit CEO’s. In the class, he said the...
A post on our sister blog FundraisingCoach.com saying fundraising problems being leadership problems really hit a nerve. And it’s no wonder. We all know charities are facing increasing external pressures from the economy, government regulation, and the changing...