Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You’re part of the problem.

Culture 136

Culture Philanthropy Public and Nonprofit Management Organizational Development 136

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

It was immediately apparent that there was the need for the board to conduct a thorough, investigative audit of the organization, so they hired a firm specializing in financial malfeasance and organizational development. While the board was informed of the changes, it did not manage the details of this process.

Leadership 69

Leadership Nonprofit Leadership Culture Participation and motivation 69

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 13, 2023

With a growing realization of philanthropy’s power to shape social change agendas—and an aim to make better use of philanthropic funds and better address structural causes of inequity—these practices rebalance power and place decision-making authority closer to the nexus of change.

Collaborations 116

Collaborations Organizational Development Civil Society Nonprofit governance and management 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

By Cecilia Conrad Thanks to Kevin Starr for shining a spotlight on how to strengthen big bet philanthropy. We need to grow this group further—not to the exclusion of other types of philanthropy, but to complement it. Second, this framing is a misrepresentation of big bet philanthropy. But many are. It is a failure of ambition.

Philanthropy 78

Philanthropy Organizational Development Foundations Technology 78

Fundraising Coach

MARCH 24, 2009

Last week I was at the annual conference for the New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. A great session I went to was on managing development staff by Betsy Rigby, Director of Development with Partners HealthCare. It was a great conference, and I did alot of tweeting. You can see all my NEAHP tweets here.

Management 72

Management Organizational Development Healthcare Leadership 72

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2023

In our soon-to-be released strategic plan, we champion community-based organizations and advocate for them in philanthropy. Increasingly, we’re calling ourselves coaches—and not consultants—because we know that organizational development that fails to center people does not achieve durable impact.

Nonprofit governance and management 116

Nonprofit governance and management Organizational Development Leadership Governance 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 11, 2023

All of this ultimately requires major changes in the culture, infrastructure, and practices of climate and conservation funders, including international NGOs, private foundations and philanthropies, and government funding agencies. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

Civil Society 120

Civil Society Environmental Public and Social Policy Governance 120