In my travels I often get opportunities to meet with other organizational leaders who are striving to heal some of the social tragedies that are international. Such was the case in a recent Social Innovation Summit this week in New York City hosted by The Social Innovation Summit and Lululemon. ...
Non-Profit Leadership: A Community Voice
For those of you who read may blog through the year, you know that I am involved in several non-profits, one of which is a non-profit for veterans that sponsors an event to honor veterans every 4th of July weekend. It happens within a community on Lake Gaston in Virginia....
Non-Profit Leadership: How to Deal with the Dilemma of Software
As non-profits grow we increasingly become dependent on software to enable us to use technology for our capability to function. From emails to data bases to outside software programs, we are literally bound to software in more ways than we can fathom. The current cybersecurity threats and fears are evidence...
Non-Profit Leadership: How do We Contextualize Programmatic Growth?
One important part of working with students who have some life struggles is to recognize the trending of their needs as we move through different generations. The students that we had in our care 30 years ago are very different from the students that we work with today. What that...
Non-Profit Leadership: How to take Program Development from Design to Implementation
For those of us that are continually attempting to improve certain aspects of our society, we recognize that when needs surface that are within our mission to address there is quite a process to make that happen. We usually begin with an idea and over time we turn it into...
Non-Profit Leadership: The Gift of Volunteers
Not only do I operate a non-profit, but I serve on several Board of Directors of other non-profits. One of those organizations is The American Veteran’s Tribute Organization. This is an organization that is focused on raising awareness for and meeting the needs of veterans. One important part of this...
Non-Profit Leadership: How much trauma training is enough?
One of our challenges in non-profit leadership are the many demands of providing training to our staff. Our organizational and programmatic requirements are significant. We need to provide staff with training for their individual jobs, for the use of technology, in legal issues that they confront each day, for specialization...
Non-Profit Leadership: The Traumatic State of Systems of Care Organizations
One of the realities of those who have serious mental health needs, drug addiction needs, health needs and an array of other issues is that they are largely dependent on our systems of care for support and guidance. I know from a variety of sources of feedback that it is...
How Are Virtual Meetings Depersonalizing Client Relationships?
Recently, I was in a discussion with our Vice President of Student Services. We were working through how we might better serve our school district clients. He expressed his frustration that it is difficult to even gain access to our clients to have meaningful discussions. When we do there is...
Non-Profit Leadership: How Transparency Can Help in a Crisis
In the journey of any non-profit difficult issues can happen. Whether it be a drastic change in revenue, a technological crisis, terminations, changes in program demands, changes in leadership, etc. Particularly when things happen that are unethical or worse it is often difficult to know how to process the issues...