Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons In Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications

Are you read to develop the skills, and manage the conflict that accompanies passionate and diverse points of view? As a leader, this is critical! The post Ep 84: Passion, Conflict, Diversity, and Leadership (with Parisa Parsa) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Learn from my guest Priya Parker how to create super effective meetings, resolve tough conflicts, and throw killer dinner parties. The post Ep 83: You’re Doing Meetings All Wrong (with Priya Parker) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

I get to work with thousands of amazing nonprofit leaders inside the Nonprofit Leadership Lab. Allow me to introduce a few of them to you. The post Ep 82: Helping the Helpers appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

In a polarized world, power to effect change comes from building an “army of the engaged”. Here's how my guest, Rashad Robinson, did just that. The post Ep 81: How to Grow a Movement and an “Army of the Engaged” (with Rashad Robinson) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Nonprofits want to change the world in ways large and small. And yet, when it comes to bringing change into our own orgs, it’s really hard! The post Ep 80: Why is Change So Hard? (with Lisa Lahey) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Learn more about the birth of a film festival and the superpower of this type of non profit in building community. The post Ep 79: How a Film Festival Impacts Community Building (with Evelyn Colbert) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Organizations of all kinds know they must innovate or die out. But this word causes nonprofit leaders to break out in cold sweats. Why? The post Ep 78: What Nonprofits Can Learn from Tech Start-ups (with Ann Mei) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Learn more about common tensions between Development and Communications and whether merging them under one umbrella works or muddies the water. The post Ep 77: Navigating the Tension Between Development and Communications (with Steve Ralls) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

I believe there are 4 primary obstacles to building a diverse board. In this episode, I explain what they are and I’ll tell you exactly how you can overcome them. The post Ep 76: The 4 Obstacles to a Diverse Board appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Name a big goal you have for the coming year. That’s what I asked more than a dozen nonprofit leaders. Here’s what they told me. The post Ep 75: What’s Your One Big 2019 Goal? appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

You’re a nonprofit person, so you probably want to change hearts and minds, but your blind spots may be getting in the way. The post Ep 74: Good People, Hidden Biases, and Navigating Your Blind Spots (with Anthony Greenwald) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

You need to make a huge leap in your nonprofit. And so you require a significant amount of money in a certain period of time. You may need a capital campaign. The post Ep 73: The Arc of a Successful Capital Campaign (with Eric Javier) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

We’ve reached prime-time giving season, and I have some good news. It’s absolutely not too late to exceed your goals, no matter where you currently are in your process. The post Ep 72: Successful Year End Fundraising (with Gail Perry) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Is your nonprofit budgeting process a royal pain or a living, breathing plan for your leaders to determine your organization’s priorities? The post Ep 71: A Smart Nonprofit Budgeting Process (with Hilda Polanco) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane… no, it’s a nonprofit leader. The work you do matters more than you know and more than anyone will ever tell you. The post Ep 70: Unicorns, Superheroes and Nonprofit Leaders (With Vu Le) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Giving Tuesday, #MeToo, the Ice Bucket Challenge, the out-of-nowhere victories of Obama and Trump… They all have something important in common – they were movements forged by “New Power”. The post Ep 69: New Power and the Building of Movements (with Henry Timms) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

How do you take care of yourself and still be responsible to your organization and the people you serve? The post Ep 68: No, You Can’t Do It All appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Donors won’t give to charities with “high overhead.” Right? But what structural problems does this cause? My guest, Dan Pallotta, busts the nonprofit overhead myth. The post Ep 67: Busting the Overhead Myth (with Dan Pallotta) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Why do Executive Directors sometimes overstay their roles? Inertia? Love of the job? A board that doesn’t want them to leave? How do you know when it’s time to go? The post Ep 66: When it’s Time to Leave Your Org (with Kate Kendell) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Nonprofit founders are superheroes. Robin Steinberg is certainly one. In fact, she keeps on creating new nonprofits! And she has a wealth of knowledge to share. The post Ep 65: The Case of the Serial Nonprofit Founder (with Robin Steinberg) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.