By Tiffany Rucker, MBA It’s important as a leader to take a step back and remember that employees are people with thoughts, emotions and value systems that make each of them unique. Sometimes the people who work with us deal with heavy personal issues that can...
By Elliott Potter April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is part of a series featuring services offered for child-abuse survivors at the Child Advocacy Center of Onslow County in Jacksonville, N.C. When it comes to helping children through the investigations of physical, sexual and...
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS Self-assessments by your nonprofit board supports the whole as well as its parts: Not only can each member effectively determine and address their weaknesses, but the group is empowered to acknowledge knowledge, skill or other gaps and determine their desired...
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS A difficult board can cause your nonprofit a number of headaches, from annoyances like slowing the work and meddling in day-to-day operations to full-blown migraines like damaging the brand and reputation. Here are a few fixes: As the organization’s executive...
By Elliott Potter April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is part of a series featuring services offered for child-abuse survivors at the Child Advocacy Center of Onslow County in Jacksonville, N.C. In Onslow County in southeastern North Carolina, the Child Advocacy Center is the hub...
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS If your board members are missing meetings, they’re telling you something is wrong. One quick fix is to make sure board meetings are as streamlined as productive as possible. Here are simple steps for keeping your board members engaged and your...
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS Fully two-thirds of the U.S nonprofit workforce are women. This means 9.2 million (of the 12.29 million) American women work in nonprofits, and the sector is the United States’ third-largest workforce. We have seen progress since 2005 in the number of women...
By Patricia Daly I began a countdown to retirement five years before that welcomed day arrived on June 30, 2011. I could not wait to be free of alarm clocks, office politics and the pervasive lack of time to have fun, travel and pursue personal interests....
By Patricia Daly When I retired in 2011, I wanted to fulfill a long-suppressed desire to nurture my spiritual development and love of writing that had been put on hold for decades. I joined a writing group of friends and began sharing spiritual stories with them. After...
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS Authors such as Ann Mei Chang, Beth Kanter, Jacqueline Novogratz, Amy Cuddy and Angela Duckworth are genuinely women of empowerment with a passion for changing the world. Any of their titles below would be an excellent addition to your personal...