How Allen Proctor’s grid will revolutionize your nonprofit
Marc Schultz | Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
“Every nonprofit is really two businesses run at the same time.”
What Happened at the Gold Dome
Karen Beavor with Stan Jones and Helen Sloat | Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
The Georgia General Assembly convened its 2013 session on January 14 and concluded its work on March 28 at midnight. High-profile topics included the state’s budget, renewal of the hospital provider fee to finance Medicaid, ethics reforms,...
Alicia Philipp, Working at the Nexus Between Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
As president of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Alicia Philipp commands one of the top 25 community foundations in the U.S. (there are more than 730), and is a known leader in grantmaking and community impact. Through more than one...
Leadership Pas de Deux at Atlanta Ballet
Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
In classical ballet, pas de deux refers to a dance between two performers. It also describes how Atlanta Ballet’s Executive Director Arturo Jacobus and Board Chair Allen W. Nelson (a 2013 Revolution Award winner) lead the company...
Building Momentum for Georgia’s Nonprofits
Chris Allers | Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
Momentum isn’t a program, it is a process—a process for strategic change. It is a method to help nonprofits become high performance organizations by changing the ways they construct strategy, make decisions about that...
Holding On To The Next Generation of Nonprofit Leaders
Erin Roberts | Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
Today’s young nonprofit professionals are tomorrow’s nonprofit sector leaders, but many are now choosing to leave their nonprofit careers behind.
Top-Line Engagement Strategies from Opportunity Knocks
Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
When an employee is engaged, they are typically more satisfied, more productive, and less likely to leave. But engagement doesn’t just happen—you have to be deliberate about engagement, using...
Hiring Right Every Time (Without Losing Your Mind)
Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
Writer and speaker Dan Erling likes to cite the above quote when asked why getting the hire right is both so important and so easy to get wrong; more concrete evidence can be found in the 2006 and 2011 Daring to Lead reports...
On-Boarding Your New CEO
Meridith Rentz & Charlie Evans | Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
In September 2011, Meridith Rentz joined Atlanta-based MedShare as President & CEO, and started a comprehensive on-boarding process headed by Board Vice Chair, Charlie Evans. As a follow up to their panel discussion at GCN’s April 2013...
How to Find, Prepare, Grow, and Engage Your People
Marc Schultz | Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Summer 2013
It was Peter Drucker who wrote, “People decisions are the ultimate—perhaps the only—control of an organization. People determine the performance capacity of an organization. No organization can do better than the people it...