Organizations strive for trauma-informed, emotionally healthy environments. Yet, some leaders use outdated strategies, causing conflict and dissonance.
Non-Profit Leadership: The Constant Need for Training
Non-profit organizations require consistent training for maintaining values, orienting new staff, meeting state regulations, confronting specific issues, and equipping leadership.
Non-Profit Leadership: Solitude Deficiencies
Non-profit leaders face overwhelming demands, resulting in staff burnout and turnover. Addressing their solitude deficiency and achieving work-life balance is critical.
Global Social Innovation Summit
At the Social Innovation Summit in New York City, global leaders discussed initiatives to promote mental wellbeing and address social tragedies worldwide.
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...