In this Series, Toni Jackson has shared her insight into a wide range of non-profit sector issues. In this post, she offers four (4) steps to take when an individual is planning to launch a non-profit organization that succeeds.
Starting a non-profit can be extraordinarily fulfilling. Sustaining one can be extraordinarily challenging.
In this post, Delquanda Turner offers her thoughts on doing both these things well. Whether you are a future or current Executive Director/Founder, this Series post has something for you.
A success-destined Executive Director is a visionary who goes well beyond their passion to achieve their organization’s Mission. Like such leaders, as she has demonstrated in this Series, Robin Morgan…
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So you’ve launched your non-profit, practicing fully the five habits Robin Morgan offered in the 5 Habits of People who Start Non-profits Successfully post (link). While a cause for celebration, your…
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You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Nancy D. Solomon
Your Outcomes Well
Better outcomes through Best Practices (Non-profit leaders)
Launching a new Non-profit organization, based solely on your heart-felt Vision, is not a strategy for success. Robin Morgan feels that there are five (5) things which are essential to…
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Don’t just manage, Lead. Don’t just lead, excel and be exceptional in the leadership position you hold. In the first post in this Robin Morgan series, her unconditional service was…
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In growing a non-profit, a leader will encounter ‘the good, the bad, and the ugly’. As long as they learn from challenges along the way, they’ll be well-positioned for better outcomes in the future. In an effort to make the journey of others better, Sofia S Crisp took time, in the last 2 posts, to openly share some of her own non-profit journey challenges. Her other purpose, in telling her story here, was making it clear that her organization “prevailed over every challenge it faced”. It emerged as ‘a stronger organization’ she strongly feels. She firmly believes that others can also overcome their challenges. Ironically, the seeds of a non-profit leader’s future successes often lie in the challenges they’ve overcome.
In this Series, My Non-profit Journey: What I Wish I Knew When I Started, eight leadership wishes shared by Sofia Crisp with Your Outcomes Well will be explored. In the last two posts we explored her second wish (Challenges I’ve Faced)
- Crisp is the Executive Director/Founder of Housing Consultants Group (Greensboro NC).
- Her 3rd wish: Successes I’ve Achieved. Building a Better Board, to allow her organization to achieve better outcomes, is the topic of this blog post.
In life, there are no Do-Overs. However, in an early-June 2015 meeting which the Your Outcomes Well team had, Sofia Crisp was asked if there was anything she wishes she had known when she first launched the housing, non-profit organization (Housing Consultant Group) she has successfully led since 2004. She paused, reflected on the question asked, and offered an insightful list of ‘I Wish I Knew’ things. These streams of thought were the seed and inspiration for a blog series, which begins today with this post.
In this Series, My Non-profit Journey: What I Wish I Knew When I Started, each of the eight leadership wishes shared by Crisp will be explored. Her first wish, featured in this post: Working ‘in your Gift’.
