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Successful nonprofits are both mission driven and business savvy. It is the unglamorous stuff that builds sustainable, impactful organizations. I had a fantastic time sharing everything I've learned over the years about strategic corporate partnerships, revenue diversity, digital networking, and financial transparency on the Prosperous Nonprofit podcast with Stephanie Skryzowski. Give it a listen and let me know what you think! #nonprofit #leadership #partnerships

🚀 Ready to Turn Your Nonprofit Dream into Reality? 🌈🌍 Introducing the Nonprofit Preeminence Program - Your Path to Impactful Change! 💼🎯 Are you a corporate leader with a burning desire to create a lasting impact in the world through your own nonprofit organization? 🌟🤝 The Nonprofit Preeminence Program is the 90-day coaching journey designed exclusively for visionary leaders like you, ready to make a difference and change lives. 🌈💚 🎯 Craft Your Long-Term Vision Plan: Unleash the potential of your nonprofit dream with a comprehensive long-term vision plan. 📝🌠 I will guide you in clarifying your mission, defining your objectives, and strategizing your way to success. Together, we'll pave the path for a sustainable and purpose-driven future. 🎯 Identify Your Target Audience: Discover your tribe of changemakers! 🎯🌍 Through my tailored strategies, you'll pinpoint your target audience and understand their needs, passions, and aspirations. Unleash the power of authentic connections to create a lasting impact in the lives of those you serve. 🎯 Launch with Confidence: Ready to take flight? 🚀✨ My program equips you with a powerful launch strategy, ensuring your nonprofit organization gets off to a soaring start. From building a compelling brand identity to crafting engaging campaigns, I've got you covered. Launch with confidence and attract the support your cause deserves. 🎯 Build Your Solid Networking Plan: Forge alliances that fuel your mission! 🤝💡 The Nonprofit Preeminence Program provides you with expert networking tactics, connecting you with potential partners, donors, and volunteers. Cultivate meaningful relationships that accelerate your impact and amplify your message. 🎯 Your Time is Now - Make a Difference Today! Take the leap and invest in your nonprofit dream. 💫🌟 Embrace your preeminence as a change-maker and empower your vision to change lives. The world is waiting for your transformational journey! Ready to embark on your 90-day transformational adventure? 🌠🚀 DM me "NOW" to learn more and receive a special early-bird offer! 🎁💼 #corporateleader #ceo #cfo #hrdirector #vice president

Nonprofit CEOs: Should you always have to ask your board before making an investment? That’s a common issue I run into .... that is, Executive Directors handcuffed by their budgets. Who better to get a thoughtful answer from than Mary Hiland Nonprofit Leadership Expert on my recent podcast. [This part of our conversation starts at about minute 16:21] “As an executive, your relationship with the board is really, really important. Board members, like everybody else, are going to have issues with money; everybody has a money thing. The more you know your board members, the more you understand about their personal perspectives and issues with money, the more you can craft agreements with the board proactively about what flexibility you have, as an executive. I do strongly recommend you need a spending policy. What is your spending authority, so you know you can spend up to X amount of money without having to come back to the board.” 🔥Mary also reinforced that just because you have a budget, and a plan, doesn’t mean that is set in stone. Each budget item might vary by up to 10%, and you want your board to fully understand that so no one “freaks out” if something does change. This is why regular assessments, ideally quarterly reviews, are so important for determining if the budget needs to be adapted to changing needs. Ultimately, there needs to be clarity between the ED and board members on discretionary spending. “I think you do need to know what you have discretion to spend. If you need more than you have discretion to spend, I do think a conversation with the board is important. But it needs to be tied to your goals to help them see [that spending] is necessary.” Such great wisdom, Mary!! And there’s much more… 📽 You can view this podcast on YouTube in its entirety. I’ll put the link to the video in the comments!

What is the best way for a nonprofit Executive Director to work with a founder who is still a member of the Board of Directors? The founder as a Board member works well if that person understands that the position carries the same responsibilities as that of other board members and has an equal voice- no more or no less. This is a big if. Usually, the transition from a Founder-driven board to a Board led by a strong Executive Director is challenging. ➡️ More and more organisations allow, suggest, or request that their founder take a well-deserved break for a year or so. This allows the founder's vision and work to evolve under the new Executive Director's leadership. Suppose the founder has taken the position of Board Chair, Board member and Executive Director, and you are the first ED to enter the organisation. In that case, you will see an opportunity to work with someone with an incredible passion for the nonprofit. On the other hand, you may notice that the founder tends to micromanage your work to ensure everything continues as it should be - at least in the founder's eyes. ➡️ Building a trusting relationship with the founder requires constant communication, reassurance, and frank discussion about your ED role relative to the founder's new role. ➡️ When there is a disagreement with a decision, the founder may actively struggle to take the reign away from the new leaders. ➡️ When this happens, the Board Chair must gently remind the founder that board members can legitimately disagree on issues, but when a decision is made, it is a board decision, and all must accept it. ✅ It can be very helpful for everyone to define a particular board task for a founder that channels all that passion and energy in a valuable direction. ✅ For example, founders write a history of the organisation, provide stories to board members to help everyone understand the nonprofit roots or founder become major fundraisers due to their charisma and energy. ✅Another area for the founder is an emeritus. ✅ Emeritus status elevates the founder to honorary membership of the board, allowing them to attend meetings whenever interested and give wise advice when asked. ✅An emeritus does not have voting rights but can have a voice at the table whenever needed or desired. I'm Mohamed Haniff Mustafa I help nonprofit Boards of Directors and Senior Execs Follow Mohamed Haniff to get more tips. 👍Like, Comment & Repost so others can benefit too. 📩DM me 'GOVERNANCE' to get your Board to be effective. #nonprofits #nonprofit #nonprofitboard

🚀 Ready to Turn Your Nonprofit Dream into Reality? 🌈🌍 Introducing the Nonprofit Preeminence Program - Your Path to Impactful Change! 💼🎯 Are you a corporate leader with a burning desire to create a lasting impact in the world through your own nonprofit organization? 🌟🤝 The Nonprofit Preeminence Program is the 90-day coaching journey designed exclusively for visionary leaders like you, ready to make a difference and change lives. 🌈💚 🎯 Craft Your Long-Term Vision Plan: Unleash the potential of your nonprofit dream with a comprehensive long-term vision plan. 📝🌠 I will guide you in clarifying your mission, defining your objectives, and strategizing your way to success. Together, we'll pave the path for a sustainable and purpose-driven future. 🎯 Identify Your Target Audience: Discover your tribe of changemakers! 🎯🌍 Through my tailored strategies, you'll pinpoint your target audience and understand their needs, passions, and aspirations. Unleash the power of authentic connections to create a lasting impact in the lives of those you serve. 🎯 Launch with Confidence: Ready to take flight? 🚀✨ My program equips you with a powerful launch strategy, ensuring your nonprofit organization gets off to a soaring start. From building a compelling brand identity to crafting engaging campaigns, I've got you covered. Launch with confidence and attract the support your cause deserves. 🎯 Build Your Solid Networking Plan: Forge alliances that fuel your mission! 🤝💡 The Nonprofit Preeminence Program provides you with expert networking tactics, connecting you with potential partners, donors, and volunteers. Cultivate meaningful relationships that accelerate your impact and amplify your message. 🎯 Your Time is Now - Make a Difference Today! Take the leap and invest in your nonprofit dream. 💫🌟 Embrace your preeminence as a change-maker and empower your vision to change lives. The world is waiting for your transformational journey! Ready to embark on your 90-day transformational adventure? 🌠🚀 DM me "NOW" to learn more and receive a special early-bird offer! 🎁💼

📣 Calling all impact pros, nonprofiteers, and do-gooders! Join the most progressive changemakers for a free half-day Summit in a virtual community-for-good. Virtual Speaker list? SPEAKERS Jon McCoy - Founder + CEO, We Are For Good Becky Endicott - Co-founder + Chief Storyteller, We Are For Good Aila Malik - Founder, Venture Leadership Collective Dr. Bertrhude Albert - CEO + Co-founder of P4HGlobal Taylor Johnson - Co-Host, Shortchanged Podcast Monique Parker- Co-Host, Shortchanged Podcast Kevin Sansberry - Behavioral Scientist and Executive Coach, Good Works Consulting Floyd Jones - Speaker, Consultant Becky Straw - Co-Founder and CEO, The Adventure Project Stacy Huston - Executive Director, Sixdegrees.org Ben Collier - CEO, The Farmlink Project Tara Abrahams - Head of Impact, The Meteor Sara Lomelin - CEO, Philanthropy Together Sixto Cancel - Founder and CEO, Think of Us Iara Peng - Founder, JustFund April Walker - Founder, Philanthropy for the People Liza Mueller - Echoing Green Jennifer Mulholland and Jeff Shuck - Founders, Plenty Whoa. Then all of you local Orange County changemakers - on July 11, let’s meet at our offices at Pacific Dental Services Foundation in Irvine to snack it up and rally around community with Julian Castaneda and Dr. Tiffany Brandreth, two amazing impact agents. At We Are For Good ImpactUp Event, we will tackle the world’s most pressing issues and opportunities at a game-changing conference. Our event gathers nonprofit professionals, social impact enthusiasts, philanthropists, and do-gooders from everywhere to discuss issues holding us back, brilliant solutions, success stories, tools for replication, and how to activate change in our communities — all centered around community and belonging. This is more than just a meeting and learning opportunity. It's about listening, sharing, convening, evolving, organizing, activating, and expanding our impact with like-minded individuals. Together, we can take collective action to make meaningful changes and evolve. Link in comments! #ImpactUp #CommunityForGood #SocialImpact #Nonprofit #Changemakers #CollectiveAction

Solid, thought provoking comments, Allen. Well spoken… Taking small, deliberate and incremental steps, when done right, with appropriate scale adjustments, a-la-a-true-balanced market-growth model, will, absolutely, produce. No question. Not only is Clayton Christensen on the mark with this, as you suggest, but, when done right, the sky’s the limit. And organizations sometimes, I’ve seen this in both the for-profit and nonprofit world, aren’t always willing to take this approach… even if all that it requires is minor reengineering, internally (albeit with some strategic or reinvestment adjustments). And that, as you share too, can, yes, be a shame. Full picture, it’s almost auto-phobic-response based, in places, if you ask me. Granted, sometimes, it’s not appropriate or the right time to delve deeper into a smaller market or audience, even if there’s longer term value there…I get it. Though it’s disheartening, still, to see something like this happen when there’s genuinely an enthusiastic or newer market (i.e. segment) that’s ready to bite in, deeply… and go the distance. Fact is, sometimes the small market or opportunity may not be so easy to see, grasp, or value, immediately anyway, especially from a short term ROI perspective. Though, in the end, and I think of HubSpot when I say this, sometimes you’ve just gotta’ stick or go with it. They recognized, as they grew, that not only was their vision toward producing good, quality content, key. But that this would help drive deeper website content and customer engagement in the process, for almost anyone, not just themselves. And now, yes, they’re a market leader in the SaaS space…a $27.4 billion dollar company. HubSpot, in effect, created the ‘inbound marketing’ mantra or principle… and, as we all know now, valuable content, created for even the smallest audience or target market, will generate increased retention. Gee, go figure. Point is, HubSpot didn’t just create a great business themselves, they created a new way, in effect, of doing business (taking into account different concepts) and, in some respects, marketing, too. And, not only this, they created a narrative that said, basically, when you have a unique, albeit even small or new market, there are, indeed, great ways to build on all of this in the process. So, question is, is that small, newer market, with apparent or significant value, really ready to be tossed aside… or is it a go?

You have questions about your nonprofit’s board, Mary Hiland Nonprofit Leadership Expert has answers! I recently had an amazingly enlightening conversation on my podcast with Mary, who has been a leading expert in the #nonprofit industry for over 40 years. She is the Founder and President of Hiland Consulting, where she supports executive directors through mentoring and coaching. We covered a lot of ground, which I will share more about in coming posts, but I wanted to give you a snapshot of some of Mary’s words of wisdom that she sprinkled throughout our discussion—particularly surrounding the role of the board and its relationship with executive directors and other staff. (The video link to our podcast conversation is in the comments below.) [4:02] “I began to realize how little support there was out there for people to have effective boards, particularly for the executive directors, and there was a lot of ‘board bashing’ going on. Much of my experience was that the board members really want to do the right thing. They’re passionate about a mission. They just don’t know what to do.” [10:20] “I think board members have the responsibility to not just fundraise, but to build relationships, to build social capital for the organization. Social capital is the asset you have by virtue of your relationship.” [22:06] “Boards need to understand that they’re leading an organization. And advancing the mission requires building a sustainable organization; not just doing programs.” [27:05] “Be sensitive about what the job is [in respect to forming and leading committees]. Anytime you’re leading a group, you need to be a good facilitator, you need to be inclusive, and you need to realize it’s not about your agenda, it’s about the group’s success.” [31:35] “I have never, in my entire career, heard of or worked with a nonprofit where board members were compensated just for being board members; just for showing up.” [35:46] “You can’t represent anybody’s interests but the interests of your nonprofit. If you’re on the board, that’s the law. You can’t be loyal to another group. [...] One of the things I teach is to get the word ‘representative’ out of your mind, out of your mouth.” [42:15] “One of your roles, as an executive, is in building your relationship with your board so you understand communication preferences. When you know individual board member preferences, yes, try to honor those, but also let the whole board know you don’t have the capacity to give reports nonstop.” Take a listen to get a more in-depth picture of everything Mary and I talked about! 📽 Watch the entire Business Behind Fundraising Podcast episode through the link in the comments below.

Before I formed an advisory committee, back in the spring when I was first drafting this idea for a disability- and chronic illness-centered news organization – what now seems like an eon ago – a friend asked me, "Why go the nonprofit route? Why not go the for-profit route?" This friend works in another profession and isn't familiar with the challenges the journalism world is facing. Layoffs. Buyouts. Large news conglomerates. Paywalls that keep news from those who most need it. Burnout amongst journalists and audiences. Problems of diversity in newsrooms. Over the past few years, new nonprofit start-ups have been popping up around the country to revive local news. Often these news start-ups are backed by national projects like Institute for Nonprofit News or American Journalism Project. Nationally, while ProPublica continues to hold government officials to account, we've seen The Marshall Project and Chalkbeat also working hard to get news out. I am most inspired by Capital B and The 19th, who are taking "the news of the day" but targeting it to specific audiences. My small-but-mighty advisory committee will tell you I've said more than a few times "news is for people, not profits." Yes, I'm fully aware that even a nonprofit has to grow revenues, but those revenues go back into the publication, whether it's to paying the employees (or bringing on new employees to grow the publication) or paying for the tools to bring the news to the audience (the operating fund). In a nonprofit model, we aren't beholden to advertisers, shareholders, or how much our CEO wants to bonus. One of the most well-known nonprofit news organizations, public radio, loves to point out in its fund drives that it's beholden to its listeners, who make up the largest share of its donors and whose donations make up the largest share of its operating budget. So when I say news is for people, not profits, I truly mean it. I mean that we are beholden to the readers, listeners and watchers we serve. We must put out quality, informative news. We must make sure its accessible. We must make sure it's meeting our mission, vision and purpose every single day. That's why when I decided to build a national news organization that delivered "the regular news" and was built around the roughly 50 percent of American adults who have at least one chronic illness, nearly 20 percent of American adults experiencing a mental illness and the roughly quarter of American adults who identify as disabled, I knew it must be nonprofit. No paywalls. Mission driven. Serving the audience. #News #Publishing #disability #ChronicIllness #MentalIllness #nonprofit #ChangeMaker

I love this short interview with Evan Harrison, CEO of Kiss the Ground (also an organization I admire). " I do think success stems from building a core team, making sure the mission is crystal clear and easy for everyone to say, and then moving forward with tangible goals and measurable outcomes." I think this applies to nonprofits and for profits, large and small. He also emphasizes building trust, listening, and celebrating successes. The full interview is here, https://lnkd.in/gpJB4g-N