Nonprofit leaders are busy acting on what they believe to be the best investment of their time, and theory about stages of growth doesn’t always
If you are trying to achieve greater impact or pivot your focus, your are in the midst of organization development. You need an architect! As
5 lessons of growth and learning in the nonprofit sector
Making the organization assessment data work for your nonprofit’s strategic planning process and beyond. Nonprofits need assessment data for many reasons in an organization. For
Your organization’s structure is one key part of building your capacity for impact. The right organizational structure at both the board and staff team levels
John Kotter, Harvard Professor Emeritus, is considered a thought leader on change management. Kotter notes that 70% of organization change attempts fail. We’ve all been there. How do we as leaders become the 30% who create change that sticks? Real change requires a shift in organization culture and cultural change doesn’t happen without a lot repetition and providing rationales for the change so that core beliefs and values change too. That means not letting up.
In the non-profit sector, managing through objectives brings us to the world of logic models and theories of change. Those are the tools we use most often to create the measurable objectives we deem most likely to drive our mission forward. Embedded in any logic model are a number of priorities that must be managed.
