Why Join a Nonprofit Board?
Amanda Kearney-Smith Amanda Kearney-Smith

Why Join a Nonprofit Board?

Are there issues that you feel strongly about, but don’t know who to engage in creating change? Nonprofit organizations provide opportunities for people to become change-makers. It’s all about the mission!

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Catalyst for Change: The Board Chair's Transformative Influence
Amanda Kearney-Smith Amanda Kearney-Smith

Catalyst for Change: The Board Chair's Transformative Influence

We’ve recently observed several troubling trends in the nonprofit sector. We've witnessed multiple organizations grappling with leadership crises – either through the departure of key executives or mass resignations from dysfunctional boards (or worse, they don’t leave and stick around to cause trouble).

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Strategic Planning: Creating a Process of Becoming
Amanda Kearney-Smith Amanda Kearney-Smith

Strategic Planning: Creating a Process of Becoming

Should the goal of a strategic planning process be to create an inspiring vision, establish a environment rooted in positivity, and emphasise strengths - or to identify and fix problems, and thereby creating a robust and impervious organizational model?

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Women's Equality Day and the Nonprofit Sector
Amanda Kearney-Smith Amanda Kearney-Smith

Women's Equality Day and the Nonprofit Sector

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.

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