7 Key Components to Creating or Supercharging Your Ambassadorship Program
Does your organization want more customers or members? Putting in place an ambassadorship program is a relatively inexpensive and an effective way to create buzz and increase your number...
[ read more ]Finding Our Ball in the Pool
Having just returned from the vacation, I was struck by how effortlessly my kids always seem to strike up a game of catch in the pool with any and...
[ read more ]Volunteer Engagement Today: Committee Volunteers, Task Force Members and Volunteer Task Rabbit
My dear friend Simi Kaplin Baer texted me yesterday to ask an important question. Why doesn’t the nonprofit organization which she is deeply involved with as a volunteer understand that she is happy to...
[ read more ]Creating a Board Book
In my new book, On Board: What Current and Aspiring Board Members Must Know About Nonprofits & Board Service, I recommend making a board book for each member of...
[ read more ]Play with Your Philanthropy
My husband proudly shared with our family over dinner the other night that his team for the food collection drive at the office had executed a secret strategy he...
[ read more ]Synagogue Engagement Strategies: Lessons Learned from Operation " Protective Edge"
This article originally appeared in ejewishphilanthropy.com. You can view the original at http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/synagogue-engagement-strategies-lessons-learned-from-operation-protective-edge/. The recent round of fighting in Gaza was accompanied domestically and internationally by public rallies and...
[ read more ]For Values "Show, Don't Tell"
Many organizations, in addition to their mission and vision statements, have a values statement. A values statement is a set of beliefs and principles that guide an organization’s decision-making....
[ read more ]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 ]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 ]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 ]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.
