Be Fearless! I have been thinking a lot about the work I do, to help organizations improve their plans or think about what they can measure for example. What is the common thread? Well I really think it has something to do with "resilience". I work with nonprofits to sometimes face a crossroads, sometimes to even keep going at all; sometimes the organization needs clarity, to refine their mission; other times they need to be able to better measure what they do and demonstrate the impact they are having. Last year, Beth Kanter wrote about nonprofit resilience in her blog . She wrote about it in the individual sense, that people who work in nonprofits have a high degree of stress and can burnout. Therefore, we need to think about the resilience of nonprofit staff. I use the term resilience in a broader sense, in terms of the whole organization. Organizations may change and morph over time, adapting to the world around them, or may stay stuck in an earlier time, ...
I blog about issues facing nonprofit managers and organizations as a former Executive Director and current nonprofit researcher, professor, and consultant. I am passionate about building up the sector, about claiming the value nonprofits provide to the world.