Spine-chilling fear can be invoked in the hearts and minds of grantees when they hear their funder say, “We need to start our strategic planning.” Strategy development is important. It helps philanthropists clarify what they want to accomplish and offers a roadmap. It should lead to change. And strategies themselves should change rapidly, as conditions […]
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Are you the kind of leader philanthropy needs right now? We often think of a good leader as someone who goes first. A person who wouldn’t ask her team to do anything she wouldn’t do. But what happens when the one out in front doesn’t have the crucial information to make good decisions? What if that information
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Real Leaders Lead From Behind. We often think of a good leader as someone who goes first. A person who wouldn’t ask her team to do anything she wouldn’t do. But what happens when the one out in front doesn’t have the crucial information to make good decisions? What if that information instead resides with
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Here are 8 ways you might be contributing to this problem! A serious but largely overlooked problem in philanthropy is feeling overwhelmed. As odd as it seems, overwhelm often comes more from our minds than from the physical world. That is, we may indeed have a boatload of tasks to take care of, but how
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Don’t panic, you got this! There are 84 working days until the end of the year. Take away three weeks for end-of-year holidays and other vacation days, that’s only 69 days remaining to accomplish those goals you set earlier this year! But before you start to panic, I want to reassure you: You got this!
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Last week I received this email from a foundation CEO: “I do have your book and it’s just fabulous. You are really one of the best sources for meaningful information in the foundation world – Thank you!” I’m not sharing this to toot my own horn. I’m sharing it to emphasize the critical importance of investing
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