Adapting Strategy In The Contingency Planning Era
The only thing certain about the current moment is uncertainty. In our previous post, my colleague, Stephen Pratt, talked about what a contingency plan is and the tactical considerations that go into ... Read More
Contingency Planning In 5 (not so easy) Steps
If your inbox looks anything like mine, there’s lots of talk about contingency planning. You can attend webinars, sit through Zoom presentations, download an app. Maybe you have time for all that, b... Read More
How To Manage Yourself Through A Quarantine
In my previous post, I described how I managed a nonprofit through the Great Recession while also battling mantle cell lymphoma. After six rounds of chemo, I entered the bone marrow transplant unit at... Read More
Precedented
Unprecedented is a commonly used term to describe our current moment. The uncertainty and the sense that we’ve never been through anything like this before only adds to the unease bordering on sheer... Read More
Spring Cleaning for the Workplace
Every year, as the heaviness of a New England winter dissipates and the days get longer and warmer, I get the strong urge to purge my home of all that has built up over the past year. Donating clothes... Read More
The Price of the Market for Nonprofits
I am slowly making my way through Anand Giridharadas book “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,” an investigation on how the wealthy’s efforts in social change work actuall... Read More
Continued: What are Nonprofit Capital Markets?
Here at Impact Catalysts, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about nonprofit capital markets. Our working definition: “The breakdown of resources available from institutional philanthropy, ... Read More
New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Leaders
Happy New Year. By now, you’ve read or heard dozens of takes on the annual, arbitrary resolution trope—everything from weight loss with Oprah, to resolution memes, to sardonic admissions of failur... Read More