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Non-Profit Consulting Titles:
Consulting With Non-profits -
If you are consulting for non-profits,
or considering it, this issue has important lessons from people
who’ve been doing it for years. There’s information on how
non-profits operate, their values, processes and priorities, what
clients want, and how some non-profits deal with
problems. There’s also guidance on how and why to use an interim
executive director, and some advice for new and potential board
members.
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- Susan Ellis, the author
of The Volunteer Recruitment Book (and ten others)
reviews
some of what consultants need to know about the way non-profits
operate. Don’t miss this.
What Do
Non-profit Clients Want? - Lee Johnson did some research.
He asked clients what they look for in a consultant..
When the
Non-profit Has Problems - Kate Wright has made a specialty of it —
assisting non-profits in trouble. Here are some of the things the
successful ones do.
Try an
Interim Executive Director - Beryl Lee Rullman outlines what an
interim executive can and should do for a non-profit in transition.
We Are
Not a Business! - Eileen Hannegan describes an engagement during
which she learned how spiritual and ethical considerations balance
with productivity needs for this non-profit.
Fourteen
Questions For New Board Members - Paula Yardley Griffin and Edward
E. Hampton offer questions and suggestions to help potential board
members get the information they need to decide if they want to do
this, and to be effective if they say yes.
Strategic Consulting With Non-profits -
This issue provides a
variety of perspectives on doing strategic work with nonprofit
organizations. There’s an article on how to run a strategic planning
retreat. Or as an alternative to developing ‘the plan,’ we offer an
article on how to teach the board to think strategically. There’s an
article on what non-profit clients look for in a consultant, and one on
how to address that gap between board ideas and staff action. Plus ideas
from an international panel of consultants on working with non-profits
using Future Search.
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- Terrie Temkin is calling a halt
to strategic planning. She’s helping boards learn to think
strategically instead. And she includes a full list of the attributes
of a strategic-thinking board.
Successful Strategic Planning Retreats - If you’re going to help
run a retreat, here’s what Bonni Carson Di Matteo suggests before,
during and after the event. Bonni includes a sample agenda for a
two-day retreat.
Members
and Mission: Facilitating Board Activities For Retreats -
Carol Weisman suggests you choose activities that help the board stay
connected to the mission, and to each other.
Future
Search in Non-profits - Marv Weisbord and members of the Future
Search Network Marv Weisbord and a group of Future Search Network
members discuss what they’ve learned in working with non-profits of
every kind in nearly every nation.
Connecting the Strategy to the Work in Non-profits - Albert Blixt
offers ways to help bridge the gap between strategy and action, and
relates the roles of key players in the Strategic Planning Model.
The full topic catalogue
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