Why Filling a Room Is Never Just About the Event One of the questions I get asked most often after a successful event is, “How did you do that?” People usually assume the answer has something to do with the topic, the speaker, the marketing, or the...
Making connections in the In-Between Times is a winning strategy. Early in my career, I worked for a mentor who shared a piece of advice that has stayed with me for decades. He said, “It’s what you do when you don’t have to do anything that puts you...
“How Did You Do That?” A few years ago, I had coffee with a friend who was discouraged because the events she was producing were not very well attended. Leadership in her organization kept pointing back to a previous decade when participation seemed easier and...
Why good ideas need a Roadmap Every meaningful endeavor begins the same way. Someone notices something that could be better. A teacher sees potential in a student. An artist imagines a work that doesn’t yet exist. A nonprofit leader recognizes a need in the...
And the simple systems strong nonprofits use to catch mistakes early One of the most overlooked challenges in nonprofit fundraising is not donor generosity. It is administrative fragmentation. The duplicate entry.The reconciliation.The spreadsheets.The disconnected...
