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 ]Expertise Every Board Needs
Most nominating committees recognize the need for those with financial and legal expertise to sit on their boards. Here are some additional fields from which boards should be looking...
[ read more ]Perpetual Beta
Many organizations in the nonprofit world are seeking to redefine and reinvent themselves. It is important for the leaders of these organizations seeking to make themselves relevant to a...
[ read more ]Toxicity
You only have to spend a short period of time in an organization to get a feeling for the environment. Is it formal or informal? Are the people who...
[ read more ]Planning for Your Community’s Future
Below is an article that I wrote that was published by eJewishPhilanthropy.com Planning for Your Community’s Future December 31, 2009 by eJP by Nanette Fridman As we embark upon...
[ read more ]Where's the Passion?
One of the most memorable lines from my childhood was the Wendy’s commercial in which Clara Peller asks “Where’s the beef?” I find myself today asking, “Where’s the passion?”...
[ read more ]Rethinking "Young Leadership"
A lot of organizations have young leadership groups or membership categories. The purpose of these is to educate people and engage folks about the organization when they are starting...
[ read more ]Nonprofit Re-Branding
How valuable is your brand? How does a potential donor react when she hears your organization’s name? Does your name, logo and tag line help people understand your mission,...
[ read more ]Leverage the Usual Suspects
I asked a friend the other day about an event that she went to and she replied that the usual suspects were there. She didn’t need to say another...
[ read more ]Fairfield 2009
Some friends in Fairfield, CT told me about an incident last Sunday at their local menorah lighting. Three masked men showed up holding Nazi flags and yelled anti-Jewish remarks...
[ 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.
