Articles Related to Leadership
Be a Change Agent
Aug 27 2014Related to: Advocacy, Related to: Fund Development, Related to: Leadership
Are you working with a nonprofit to make the community better? Would you like to learn what you can do today to make your nonprofit a powerful force for change?
Join us on September 24 as Kim Klein demonstrates how nonprofits can work together to create change.
More people volunteer than vote. If... Read Article
MBA or MPA: What is the Difference?
Aug 7 2014Related to: Leadership
Often, nonprofit professionals are faced with the decision to pursue either a Master of Public Administration (MPA) or a Master of Business Administration (MBA). The differences between these two degrees are important, yet little understood. MPA@UNC, the online mpa program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently published an infographic to... Read Article
National Recognition for Enlace Comunitario's Promotora Program
Jun 17 2014Related to: Evaluation, Related to: Leadership
After a national search, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation chose Enlace Comunitario as one of the eight most promising domestic violence prevention programs in the country working with immigrant communities. Thanks to their grant, we spent three soul-searching years evaluating our Promotora program and what works. We are happy to share... Read Article
What Happens at a Major Donor Visit?
Jun 4 2014Related to: Board Development, Related to: Collaboration, Related to: Communications & Marketing, Related to: Evaluation, Related to: Fund Development, Related to: Leadership, Related to: Technology
1. Welcome and Hello
-Chit chat with donor
2. Review the agenda and check how long you have
3. Tell your story
-How and why did... Read Article
Six Pitfalls To Avoid in Developing Your Theory of Change
Jun 6 2012Related to: Leadership
Over the past decade, more and more nonprofits have developed theories of change— that is, an articulation of the results an organization must achieve to be successful and how it, working alone or with others, will achieve them. Organizations do this either of their own volition or because funders, board members, or other parties ask them to do so. In fact,... Read Article
Frances Hesselbein’s Seven Tips for Nonprofit Leaders
Nov 10 2011Related to: Leadership
With a career that spans seventy years in the nonprofit sector and includes positions as a troop leader, state leader, and, ultimately, CEO of the Girl Scouts and CEO of the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management), which she still holds at 96, it is no surprise that Frances Hesselbein has some clear... Read Article