Do this fun exercise to focus most on what brings you joy As the holiday season approaches, many of us are reminded frequently that this is supposed to be a time of joy. Sometimes it’s easy to be thankful and happy about the blessings in our lives — especially if we work in philanthropy! But […]
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Is Strategic Friction Slowing You Down? To increase your strategic momentum, you need to eliminate strategic friction. There’s nothing like a global catastrophe to jolt philanthropy into increasing its speed. Donors, foundations, and corporations quickly responded to the pandemic by getting money out the door faster, reducing or eliminating application and reporting processes, removing funding
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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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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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