April 10, 2018
Don’t Serve Up Kool-aid: How to Balance Messages with Reality

Face it. As a leader of a nonprofit, you’re in the sales and marketing business. To raise funds, you regularly share how your nonprofit organization’s work[…]

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February 25, 2018
What Alternatives Exist to Merging? 5 Ideas on How to Save Your Nonprofit

Here are five ways to save, rescue, or improve a nonprofit or a nonprofit program without adequate funding instead of merging. 1. Change the Form,[…]

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February 22, 2018
For Lent and Forever: Give up the Poor-Us-Mentality

Before you bemoan the challenges you face as a nonprofit, remember the benefits that come with being who you are.

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July 27, 2017
Frog, Pot, Boiling Water: Hot Lessons to Solve Your Sustainably Challenge

In my years of consulting I’ve noticed a pattern that parallels the urban legend involving a frog, pot, and boiling water. The tale postulates that[…]

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March 27, 2017
How to Stop Mission Creep Now

How to keep the creep out of your nonprofit. What is mission creep or drift? A disease that inflicts nonprofits that chase after money. Why[…]

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February 3, 2016
Adults Say the Darndest Things

When I was small, Art Linkletter had an afternoon show on the TV when I arrived home from school. Perhaps you’ve seen clips of the[…]

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January 11, 2016
8 Lessons From Nonprofit Bankruptcy

As I collected success stories for 7 Nonprofit Income Streams, I met an executive director recovering from near bankruptcy. The entity’s challenges have not become[…]

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November 9, 2015
Fighting Dirty: Preparing for the Inevitable

Or, What the Confederate Flag Can Teach Leaders Bigot. Lazy. Fool. What accusations have they made about you? If you haven’t been accused of anything[…]

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October 26, 2015
Do You Seek Results? Embrace the Whole Process

We’re good at outcomes. We know what we want. It’s just that we want the result, the enchilada stuffing, but not the whole enchilada. What[…]

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April 23, 2015
The Asset-on-Hyperdrive Income Technique

Nonprofit people devise fascinating ways to earn revenue or ingenious solutions. Many of their concepts can be adapted to your setting. This article shares the[…]

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