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Mergers and Acquisitions in the Nonprofit World
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are increasing in the nonprofit world. When agencies face extreme financial risks or growth opportunities, merging with another entity or acquiring a new agency is sometimes the best solution to [...]
Psychological Safety in Your Organization
Building Psychological Safety within an organization has become a more widely accepted idea. The desire to increase psychological safety serves two purposes. First, improving psychological safety is essential to building a sense of inclusion and [...]
Organization Spotlight: National Center for Transgender Equality
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re featuring nonprofit leaders of Hispanic heritage and talking to them about their work and the importance of having representation in leadership positions. Today we speak to Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen [...]
Program Evaluation Simplified
Many nonprofit leaders are nervous about program evaluation. They assume it is a hard-to-learn, complex science that requires a lot of time and resources. They delay evaluation or implement shortcuts to ease the pain of [...]
Consultant Spotlight: Fernanda Vergara
In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, we’re spotlighting Hispanic and Latino leaders in our field. We are starting with our own emerging leader, Brighter Strategies’ Associate Consultant Fernanda Vergara About Fernanda Born in New York [...]
Communicating Name Change: Lessons from the Sports World
Name changes can be stressful. But sometimes they are necessary. Ideally, when you name a brand or organization, it stays named. However, as missions change and trends develop, you may find yourself with a [...]
Using the SDI to Help with Team Conflict
This post has been updated from a previous version. Can the SDI help your team with conflict? It’s hard to find reasonable people who actually like conflict. In our personal lives, most of us [...]
6 Employee Engagement Tips
Employee engagement is the emotional commitment employees have to an organization. According to Gallup, employee engagement is up in the United States. The poll saw an increase from 36 percent in late 2020, to 39 [...]
The Leadership Playbook
The best-laid plans go astray. In 2020, many nonprofits saw proof of this in their organization. As leaders, we often struggle to translate theory and knowledge into the practice of inspiring people. We struggle [...]
Employee Retention: Best Practices for a New Workforce
What is most important to consider when it comes to employee retention? According to recent research by IBM, “workers placed work-life balance (51 percent) and career advancement opportunities (43 percent) at the top of their [...]
Vision Boards as Facilitation Tools
When you run a business, there's no shortage of tools you can use to make your life easier, and a vision board is one such tool.
Managing Organizational Risk: A Step by Step Process
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” –Warren Buffett Managing organizational risk includes admitting that there is a high probability something could go wrong. It requires humility to accept that we do not [...]