By Dana Marlowe In late 2019, I Support the Girls (ISTG) held our first International Affiliate Retreat. We have 58 global Affiliate Directors (volunteers) who run chapters of ISTG in their cities. This was the first time in four years that these volunteers met ISTG staff—and...
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS So, how is your Giving Tuesday going? Checking in and noting how you feel things are going now—today—is your best form of advance planning for next year. Here are a few gut-check questions to answer this week and file in...
By Sara Leonard; republished from nlctb.org with permission from the Nonprofit Leadership Center I sat at my desk with a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. How do I raise enough gifts to meet our year-end fundraising goal? My team and I had hosted...
By Ruth Rathblott, republished with permission Is there room in our conversations about diversity for disability? When I have asked whether people see me as diverse, the answer I usually get is related to my gender, not my limb difference. During a presentation I gave a couple...
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS Hope Villages of America is a well-established nonprofit in Tampa Bay, with more than five decades of service to their credit. They’re quite the success story, too: What was once a struggling organization facing liquidation is now a thriving, re-branded...
By Tiffany Rucker, MBA Women and girls around the globe have had to fight for the right to receive an education. In some countries, the fight continues, as girls as young as 10 are married off too much older men for financial gain. Common wisdom once...
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS Your donors will transition through giving levels when they are ready, and so each will have a unique donor journey. But that’s not to say that you can’t guide one-time and occasional donors along the way. One of the best ways...
By Kendyl Lynch I’m a young female entrepreneur who is launching a new business thousands of miles from her hometown. My journey to open my fitness studio in Tampa is a dream come true. As I sit here writing this, I feel incredibly grateful and fortunate to...
By Pam Williams Pam (above, right) lost her wife, Marci (above, left), to cancer earlier this year; she’s sharing this new chapter of her journey, along with her pup Finn, via Facebook at Pam and Finn’s Journey through Grief - Year 1. We asked her permission...
By Tiffany Rucker, MBA Do you find yourself rushing to beat the clock every Friday afternoon to complete essential job tasks, with no idea how you got so far behind? Have you taken a good, hard look at how you’re spending your time these days? As a nonprofit leader,...