You are not alone. When it comes to getting an objective view of your organization’s operations, most nonprofit executives and board members are too close to judge. One of the hardest parts is determining where your gaps are and what to do about them. Until very recently, the only real option was to have a […]
If your organization is lacking in any area of operational competency, best practices can help. Best practices are the commercial or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective within a given industry or discipline. In essence, best practices are the currently accepted industry standard but here’s the wrinkle. Depending […]
Nonprofits want more funding. Funders want more confidence. More confidence comes from demonstrated operational competence. Operational competence comes from understanding and applying best practices. Herein, lies the problem. The definition of operational competency is changing for nonprofits and the new best practices aren’t even wet cement yet. Nonprofits traditionally operated in a silo by design. […]
Most successful nonprofits operate in a silo by design. To stay on mission, they narrow focus their programs and projects. They serve a particular need and identifiable group of people and their donors and volunteers reward them because they do. This formula worked exceptionally well until recently. Nonprofits are starting to feel a real crunch […]
Over the past few years, Bitcoin and other digital currencies have taken flight as transferable assets creating huge gains for many people worldwide. One unnamed donor set up the Pineapple Fund to give away $86 million worth of their personal bitcoin to various charities, “because once you have enough money, money doesn’t matter.” If your nonprofit accepts […]
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