Why Making Other People Feel Good Should Be Part of Your Job
In his blog today, The Only Thing That Really Matters, Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything, highlights a...
[ read more ]For Smart Nonprofits, Summer Means. . .
As the weather is starting to suggest here in Boston, summer is around the corner. This is the time in New England that we long for all year, when...
[ read more ]A Quick Test for All Fundraising Events
Events are a popular and fun way to raise funds for an organization. The truth is that they can be an expensive way to do so. Before you commit...
[ read more ]Transformation Isn’t For the Faint of Heart
This article originally appeared on eJewishPhilanthropy.com on January 19, 2011 and can be viewed at http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/transformation-isn%E2%80%99t-for-the-faint-of-heart/ The combining forces of the great recession, the proliferation of nonprofit organizations over...
[ read more ]Jewish Social Entrepreneurship
Tonight is the CJP/PresenTense Boston Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship launch. (You can watch it live at http://presentense.org/live). An email I received today about tonight’s launch party at City Year said,...
[ read more ]Communication During Change
Communities are groups of people and as such are emotional beings like the people who comprise them. When organizational leaders are seeking to make significant changes, they need to...
[ read more ]Invest in Developing Your Leader
Most boards know that they are responsible for hiring and firing the professional leader of their organization. Equally important, some committee, whether executive or personnel, should take seriously a...
[ read more ]Take Off Your Rose Colored Glasses To Embrace Change
To effectuate change, boards and management have to be able to take off their rose colored glasses and admit to themselves the truths that they often don’t want to...
[ read more ]Hats Off to My MIL
I just said goodbye to my husband’s mother after a week-long visit. A firiend and I were talking and they can’t believe how well we get along and how...
[ read more ]Stale Boards
I saw an article the other day about how to refresh stale bread. If only refreshing a stale board was as easy as finding a brown paper bag, adding...
[ read more ]Too often people are asked to lead a board without a guidebook or a mentor. Holding the Gavel lays out the job, what is expected and how to best contribute.
