Newsletter & Blog
Weekly inspiration for building your nonprofit leadership skills.

Helping Nonprofits Do the Whole Job
As we move past the Thanksgiving celebration and into the holiday season, I’m thinking about how I can support nonprofits through the end of 2023

Focus on Your Local Community
With Thanksgiving less than a week away I’m thinking about community, the community that your nonprofit serves, and also the community within your organization. At

Communicate the Value of Training
I’m grateful to see that our new online course is proving popular both with readers of the Applied Wisdom booklet and with the newcomers to our

Nonprofits and the Business World
I once heard someone say that business executives on nonprofit boards too often leave their brains at the door. It’s unfortunate that some businesspeople who

Join the Applied Wisdom Insights for Leadership Workshop
The Center for Excellence in Nonprofits (CEN) is offering its second 2-hour online workshop based on my Applied Wisdom for the Nonprofit Sector, on November

Building Nonprofit Boards
Effective boards can be a great resource for nonprofits. But even very skilled businesspeople often fail to invest much time in structural issues at nonprofits.