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3 decisions every nonprofit should make before writing an organizational plan 

Candid

One of the reasons an estimated 30% of nonprofits dont last more than 10 years is poor organizational development. Developing an organizational plan that clearly defines your groups objectives is key to achieving long-term success and sustainability.

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Krysta Grangeno Joins The Charity CFO As Chief of Staff

The Charity CFO

Krysta is incredible at project management and organizational development. She has also trained with Harvard programs in both management principles and impactful systems work for adults and children. However, the area I’ve enjoyed seeing her grow most in is how she advocates for just, equitable, and authentic systems.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

policy and advocacy, research and legal assistance, communications and narrative change, leadership and organizational development). It was a matter not only of broadening the base of supporters and coordinating efforts but also of taking advantage of complementary knowledge, skills, and connections.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

Growing Pains Founded in 1926, AbilityFirst (formerly known as the Crippled Children’s Society of Southern California or CCS) was created to help children with polio and other physical disabilities, and I was hired in 1998 to turn around this disability service organization.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

And she saw a lot in a place where the mantra was that children should just be seen and not heard, right? And after a brief moment, she walked back into the office, trailed by her three children. KF: These are established schools of personal and organizational development. Kaytura Felix: That little girl saw a lot.

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

We suggest that it be used to ground and orient organizational development change processes. Because the brain develops over time, for children it is a question of emotional “maturity.”