Nonprofit news over the last year is telling a clear story: Collaboration between organizations is no longer optional or “nice to have.” It’s now a smart survival strategy. For example, in Central Oregon, funders are now requiring nonprofits to demonstrate collaboration in grant applications. In Nebraska and Iowa, two long-standing children's care organizations, Child Saving Institute and Children's Square, are unifying to both maintain operations and expand their service foo

Your organization has a clear mission. But do each of your employees have a clear purpose? 🤔 Ask a nonprofit employee why their organization exists, and they'll give you a compelling answer about the change they're creating in the world. But ask that same person to articulate the specific purpose of their role -- how their daily decisions and actions directly advance that mission -- and you'll likely get a fuzzier response. Most job descriptions list key tasks and responsibi

Image by Visual Thinkery “We know our onboarding needs work," the executive director of a synagogue told me during one of our early...

This past June, my wife Jen, daughter Romi (age 5), and I visited close friends in Burlington, Vermont, to be together and escape the...