Nonprofit Ace Podcast

Organizations all the time talk about doing a strategic plan and getting the board together and they're going to work through all the things that they want to do for the next couple of years. And honestly, in my opinion, that is a complete waste if you never take time to consider the costs. Click here to read the full transcript.

 

COVID has taught many of us quite a few lessons: good, bad, indifferent. One of the things that has come to the forefront for many of us is that even in the face of uncertainty, we need to put a plan together. I had a whole list of all the things I wanted to accomplish this year, and so many of them did not happen because they were related to travel or related to me being around other people.  Click here to read the full transcript.

Welcome to this series with Rachel Miller-Bleich. Rachel is the CEO of MillerBleich Consulting, and they help nonprofits as well as professional associations do their governance work and make sure that they have a better understanding, a better grasp about what the governance body, be that the board or members of the management team, need to do to keep the organization running. Click here to read the full transcript.

Tune in as Rachel Miller-Bleisch shares her reccomendations on favorite podcasts and how to reach her. Click here to read the full transcript.

I'm a big proponent of be thoughtful about the agenda planning process. Don't just look in Robert's rules and say, "Oh, this is what an agenda is supposed to look like." You have a lot to work with when it comes to really thinking about how are we planning this time, which is, for most nonprofits, it's two to three hours of this space of time when the board has the ability to make really important decisions and take really important action. I think it's something that hopefully all organizations are taking very seriously because it should be taken seriously. To read the full transcript, click here.

I've been forced to really rethink a lot in terms of strategically, how am I trying to grow my business, promote my business, position it. And because I'm so new to consulting, it's certainly something that I'm constantly rethinking. I think one of the things I've especially had to learn recently is the necessity of rolling with the punches and being able to adopt a mindset of there's really no perfect way to do this, so I'm going to do what I can and trust that things can grow and evolve in ways. To read the full transcript, click here.

I wish more nonprofits understand and embrace the idea that governance matters. I think that particularly managing governance sometimes gets treated as either a side desk job or an afterthought, or it gets lumped in with another function. Click here to read the full transcript.

Behind the scenes governance doesn't look nice and pretty or sound fun, but it just makes things so much easier later down the road. Listen in as Rachel Miller-Bleich and I continue the nonprofit governance conversation. Click here to read the full transcript.

When you think about governance as really the strategic wheel of the organization, if that's not healthy and if you don't have the systems and processes in place, your organization is going to suffer for it.  Click here to read the full transcript.

Full Interview with Amanda Wallander Roberts, CEO, Capacity Building Nonprofit. Click here for the full transcript.