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7 Steps to Lead Your Nonprofit Board Through Strategic Planning

7 Steps to Lead Your Nonprofit Board Through Strategic Planning

In most successful nonprofits, the board requires a refreshed strategic plan every 3-5 years and this can feel like drudgery. But in reality, this is one of the most important ways a CEO or Executive Director can win in their role.  For the sake of this article, we...

5 Mistakes Nonprofits Make When Hiring a Consultant

5 Mistakes Nonprofits Make When Hiring a Consultant

In the complex world of nonprofits, hiring a consultant can feel like trying to figure out how to summon a wizard to solve your organization's most pressing challenges. While consultants possess a particular expertise, nonprofits can sometimes stumble into avoidable...

3 Strategic Planning Mistakes that Kill a Nonprofit

3 Strategic Planning Mistakes that Kill a Nonprofit

When you are leading a nonprofit organization, strategic planning is the compass that charts an intentional course toward your vision.  However, like any adventure, it is not without pitfalls. So picture this as a journey like any other journey: While there are high...

3 Nonprofit Strategic Planning Templates

3 Nonprofit Strategic Planning Templates

Strategic Planning Summary: Strategic planning is a deliberate process aimed at shaping the future priorities of a nonprofit organization. It hinges on the active involvement of key stakeholders, such as staff members, significant donors, strategic volunteers, and the...

5 Essential Ingredients of a Nonprofit Strategic Plan

5 Essential Ingredients of a Nonprofit Strategic Plan

Catapult’s Strategic Planning Secret Sauce - The 5 Essential Ingredients of a Winning StrategyThere is a cruel irony in being a successful leader of an organization. Your experience, expertise and knowledge can become a curse. Organizational psychologist and Wharton...

Top 4 Reasons Nonprofit Strategic Plans Fail

Top 4 Reasons Nonprofit Strategic Plans Fail

Despite best efforts of nonprofit leaders, many times a strategic plan fails to deliver the goods. It’s hard enough to get a gifted and capable team to align around a plan, so there are very few things more frustrating for a leader on an Executive Team than when the...

Free Ebook: The Future of Nonprofit Growth

Free Ebook: The Future of Nonprofit Growth

What do comedians, razor blades, best sellers and bracelets all tell us about the future of nonprofits? Well, they give us a window into understanding how nonprofits grow. In this free ebook, we’ll take a journey through several surprising (and often, funny!) social...