Be more painkiller, less vitamin.

Be more painkiller, less vitamin.

Tough times require tougher stances. Painkillers are always needed. What’s it going to take to strengthen your message … another pandemic?

What the Surfside tragedy will teach us about board leadership and liability

Let’s start with the liability.

Around our shop we have a saying, that we repeat often in our workshops, in our clients’ board rooms, and to each other, which is, “being a board member is a different kind of volunteer.”

Case in point, the recent Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida.

Individual donors are still the ones

Individual donors are still the ones

Even during the most challenging years, individual donors are still the most reliable and generous of givers to nonprofit missions. As a matter of fact, Giving USA 2021 tells us that overall giving hit a record $471.44 billion in 2020, led by individuals who gave $324 billion or 69%, and increase of more than 2% over 2019.