Women’s Equality Day marks the certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which granted women the right to vote - white women. Pointing out the irony implicit in the name given to this day isn’t perhaps necessary - but it is important.

Board members are a critical (and necessary) component of a nonprofit organization. Board members are crucial volunteers who share important responsibilities.

We might sound like a broken record, we’ve written about this many times, but the narrative hasn’t changed. Then we came across this brilliant article!

In our experience, many boards (possibly most) have members who don't know each other well. Why? There seem to be many reasons.

Peter Drucker once said “Strategy is not a goal, it is a direction, a blueprint for putting the pieces together and building. It must have continuous feedback to translate real-time results into refinements and changes as appropriate.”

All doctors take an oath (the Hippocratic Oath) to “do no harm”. This is obviously important for professionals who hold lives in their hands. However, it's a good rule of thumb for all professionals wouldn’t you agree?

It’s Pride Month! It celebrates the long road that LGBTQ+ advocates and other community leaders have traveled to achieve equality.

Our first blog this month, Developing Your Leadership Style, provided an activity to help you identify your leadership strengths. In this blog, we suggested that personal reflection on your leadership strengths and aspirations is as important as consulting external leadership resources.

There are lots of leadership books out there, and that is great. We are not anti-book, and there is certainly a lot of helpful information available that could help you become a better leader. Looking at external sources for inspiration, however, has its drawbacks.

Occasionally, when discussing strengths-based approaches and growth mindsets with nonprofit leaders, we ponder whether we might inadvertently fuel the phenomenon of 'toxic positivity' in the workplace.