The Nonprofit CEO Briefing

You probably have something on your plate this week that needs your attention, that needs a decision. And you probably have been pulled into a couple of things that others should just decide.  The scary part is that somewhere out there is a decision that should have come to you

"It's a beautiful thing when your organization is strong in purpose and the staff absolutely believe in the mission and see it as a calling. Many people…will talk about [our organization] as a family. And when you do business with family, we all know that can

Sami DiPasquale is looking out over a few buildings nestled between railroad tracks and the Rio Grande in El Paso. He is in the long process of starting a nonprofit called Abara, focused on immigration and people on the border.  Sami has a clear vision, a sense that he has

Much of what we call “change management” is a way for the CEO to avoid being disliked.  This week, I talk with Jenn Petersen at World Hope International on The Nonprofit CEO Podcast. She was thinking about doing something scary: eliminating their only source of recurring revenue, a child-sponsorship

Nonprofit CEOs are always thinking about money—how to raise it, how to steward it, how to save it, how to raise it. (Yes, many seem to think twice as much about how to raise it as the other dynamics.) But money isn’t the most important currency in your

Some months ago, I was talking with a CEO about nonprofit board dynamics. She said: “I think there is something fundamentally wrong with boards. They're more set up for failure than they are for success in the very nature of how they've been created.” Bingo. This