Hire Interim to Hire Smart
If you’re on a nonprofit board, you may have been sitting at the table when an Executive Director resigned (or left under other circumstances). Did your mouth go dry? Were […]
Building Scaffolding for your Freedom
You can often catch me saying “Hope is not a strategy” and “structure gives you freedom” What do these KariCatchPhrases actually mean? It means that when you do the hard […]
Talking with Sami from The First Click on the Digital Marketing Therapy podcast
I had a blast chatting with Sami about Storytelling on her podcast, Digital Marketing Therapy. Grab a snack, a beverage and listen to our conversation here or wherever you listen […]
Strategic Planning in an emergency
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 […]
DEVELOP A USABLE AND CURRENT CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Contingency plan. Lots of people (read: your colleagues) don’t think about this until they need one. Let me guess— you might have needed a contingency plan for nonprofit organizations in […]
The Big Event Question Mark
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”? This post will give you a few ideas on how to approach the discussion and issues to consider.
Your Fundraising Team. Yes. You Have One.
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It’s All About the Volunteers
We explored volunteers in nonprofits during the month of April because they are very important to the nonprofit sector and to the individuals who choose to volunteer. This year, 63 […]
Measuring the Impact of Your Volunteers
Volunteer Evaluations Your Volunteer Plan should include processes and protocols for evaluating volunteers. We often neglect this important work. It must be done, and you want to make sure your […]
Volunteers as Fundraisers: Many Hands Make Light Work (and raise more money!)
There are many ways for volunteers to help with fundraising. Your job is to make the best possible match between the fundraising task and the volunteer personality, and to train […]
