by Kari Anderson | Jul 20, 2020 | Board Topics, Events, Finances, Fundraising, Leadership, Organizational Planning
It’s that time in the COVID era that you’ve earned your Crisis Manager Badge. Congratulations! During this time, you’ve probably been mostly occupied with putting out fires and making adjustments to your daily operations. You’ve figured out how to manage a remote...
by Kari Anderson | Jun 16, 2020 | Board Topics, Finances, Fundraising, Organizational Planning, Policies, Recordkeeping
Contingency plan. Lots of people (read: your colleagues) don’t think about this until they need one. Let me guess- you might have needed one in the last 3 months? I’m not going to say they are the most fun part of running a non-profit. It usually requires thinking...
by Kari Anderson | Jun 9, 2020 | Board Topics, Education, Events, Finances, Fundraising, Leadership, Organizational Planning
On June 23rd, I’m offering a FREE 30 minute webinar: Raising Money in a Different World: How, When & Why You Should Make Changes Now Take 1 minute and 7 seconds to find out what it’s all about:...
by Kari Anderson | May 26, 2020 | Auctions, Board Topics, Events, Fundraising, Volunteers
We’ve had a lot of events cancelled outright lately. But now we’re entering a new no-person’s land of should we or shouldn’t we march ahead with “Our Thing”? States are re-opening at different rates and people will have different comfort levels with crowds...
by Kari Anderson | Dec 11, 2019 | Board Retreat, Board Topics, Education, Organizational Planning, Staff topics
During my consulting career, I’ve heard the following phrases too many times to count: “We don’t need a board retreat this year – everything’s on track.” “Our nonprofit doesn’t have the budget for a retreat.”...
by Kari Anderson | Oct 4, 2019 | Board Topics, Finances, Fundraising, Organizational Planning, Staff topics, Uncategorized
September & October is conference season, and I’ve spent time during the month on the road in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington. In one single day, I overheard – THREE times – nonprofit staff make the comment that “they don’t...
