by Funding For Good | Jan 19, 2023 | Nonprofit Leadership Development, Strategic Planning
If you’re an organizational leader, you’ve likely heard the quote: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” But what happens when culture doesn’t exist in the traditional sense—between people gathering together—but rather across bits of data transmitted from laptops and...
by Funding For Good | Dec 22, 2022 | Nonprofit Leadership Development, Strategic Planning
The workplace is changing. There’s remote work, hybrid work, and now four-day workweeks. As a nonprofit leader it can be challenging to weigh the changing needs of employees against an organization’s own goals. Which is why we want to talk about how to focus on...
by Funding For Good | Dec 16, 2022 | Nonprofit Leadership Development, Strategic Planning
If you’re starting a strategic planning process, you might be pondering how deeply to engage your staff. You’ll certainly bring in your leadership team and department heads. But what about middle managers and non-management staff? Are there benefits to engaging staff...
by Funding For Good | Dec 15, 2022 | Leadership Development, Nonprofit Leadership Development, Strategic Planning
We recently read an article about “mind control” parasites affecting wolf pack behavior in Yellowstone National Park. Which sounds like a horror movie come to life. But here at Funding for Good, it also reminded us of a problem that many organizations face at some...
by Funding For Good | Dec 13, 2022 | Nonprofit Leadership Development, Strategic Planning
There are no shortcuts when it comes to creating a strategic decision making framework for your nonprofit. But luckily there are best practices we can all apply. At Funding for Good we talk quite a bit about strategic decision making—which we define as a decision...
by Funding For Good | Dec 8, 2022 | Nonprofit Leadership Development, Strategic Planning
Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone seems to agree to a strategy or new direction a little too quickly? Maybe people just want the meeting to end (so they can get on with meeting their abundant deadlines). Or perhaps everyone decided today was the day to...