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Anyone Know Why We’re Meeting?

Congratulations! You’ve limited your meeting attendees to those who need to be there.
Now, how are you going to keep from wasting their time?
Your valuable volunteers are smart. They can come up with great ideas and engage in really substantive conversations that result in good policy. That only works though, if they’ve been given time to [...]

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Tax-exempt groups must adapt to economic woes

Nonprofit crisis can generate the energy to transform Delaware’s sector into one that more efficiently and productively serves its diverse constituency and supplements efforts to foster economic development.

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A niche for corporate giving

The nonprofit sector could become corporation’s call for leadership and community involvement.

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Delmarva’s call for community leadership: SmartDrive

Collaborations between corporations and nonprofits, another way of giving back to the community.

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Why am I here?

Wasting time in meetings is harmful to the bottom line. Inviting the right people is key to productive meetings and happier staff and volunteers.

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Nonprofits Need Help, Not Just Directives

Telling nonprofits to collaborate or merge is easy. Implementing it is hard. Where will the help come from in order to make it happen?

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Is this meeting necessary?

We all have the experience: Sitting in a meeting, wondering when it will end, and too polite to just up and leave. Meanwhile, we’re screaming inside, “Get me out of here!” Of course, this never happens in your organization. But if this experience is so common, why does it still happen?
I contend it’s because no [...]

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Vet the Interim Exec: 6 Critical Steps Toward Making it Work

How do you get your money’s worth from an Interim Executive Director? First, make sure their skills match your needs. Then stay in touch. Six steps to making the Interim Executive Director position work for your organization.

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Why Hire an Interim Exec or Director?

When your Executive Director resigns, the first impulse is to find a replacement as quickly as possible. But that’s not always the wisest course of action. Interim Executive Directors keep your organization going when your Executive Director leaves. Interim Development Executives can be temporary replacements for a vacancy, or can be engaged to set up a development function that will be implemented by future or existing staff.