INSIGHTS
Level Up Your Nonprofit Governance With Executive Contracts
Nonprofit executive contracts: essential for attracting talent, ensuring stability, and mitigating risk. Learn why your organization needs them and what they should include.
Maximizing Mission Impact: A Blueprint for Nonprofit Board Excellence
Learn how to optimize your nonprofits board's performance in 5 key areas and drive greater mission impact.
Embracing Nonprofit Transformation: A Guide to Leading Through Change
Nonprofit CEOs face increasing pressure to navigate rapid change. This article provides expert nonprofit consultant guidance on leading through transitions, optimizing leadership teams, and making decisive decisions to ensure organizational success in a dynamic environment.
Leading Through Transformation: The Nonprofit CEO's Toughest Call
Change is the hardest decision for nonprofit CEOs, yet it's essential in today's dynamic landscape. Curtis Strategy partners with you to navigate the complexities of transformation, providing support, guidance, and an objective view. We help you overcome resistance, build a culture of change, and empower your leadership to drive success. Don't face change alone – contact us to learn how we can help your organization thrive.
Leading Change While Preserving Culture: A CEO's Guide to Sustainable Transformations
Successful nonprofit leadership means effectively navigating organizational change while preserving core values. Change, while necessary, can be disruptive and emotionally taxing for staff. To successfully guide your nonprofit through periods of change, it's crucial to balance urgency with empathy. This involves understanding the impact of change on your organization's culture and structure, and taking steps to mitigate resistance. The following provides a valuable framework, emphasizing the importance of clear communication, coalition building, and celebrating wins.
From Friction to Flow: Practical Strategies for Building Bridges Between Nonprofit CEOs and Boards
Nonprofit boards are often composed of dedicated individuals with expertise outside the organization's core mission. While their passion is invaluable, a lack of specific nonprofit market understanding can lead to a domino effect of challenges. The solution lies in building bridges, not walls. This ensures CEOs can translate passion into impactful strategies, keeping the organization relevant, effective, and true to its mission.
CEO’s Guide to Managing Capabilities and Complexity
In recent years the role of nonprofit CEO has become increasingly complex. Between managing large-scale turnaround, merger integration, reducing costs, and technology implementation, nonprofit leaders are challenged with issues that require innovative thinking and new approaches to managing.
In this article, we are going to provide insight into two areas of focus that go hand-in-hand to help CEOs achieve short and long-term goals.
So you have a DEIB strategy. What now?
Over the course of the last three years, many nonprofits have rightfully prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion. But where do those initiatives stand today? Are organizations seeing the progress they hoped for? If you’ve seen some progress, but want to make sure your efforts don’t stall or if you aren’t seeing the engagement you hoped for, it might be time to regroup and make a new plan.
3 Themes Taking Us Into 2023
2022 continued to be a year of rapid change for our mission driven clients and for the health and human services, association, credit union, and higher education sectors they operate in.
As the major shifts in the landscape show no signs of slowing, our nonprofit consultants have identified three themes that have been the focus of 2022 that will carry over into 2023: nonprofit consolidation, succession planning, and enhancing board governance.
How to Talk with Your Nonprofit Board About Mergers and Affiliations
Making the decision to explore a nonprofit merger and affiliation can feel challenging enough. However, once that decision is made, it’s time to approach your Board of Directors. As nonprofit merger and affiliation consultants, we are hearing more and more from CEO’s and Executive Directors that want to know where and how to begin. Learn how to get started and what to do along the way.
3 Methods for Building a Board Chair & CEO Power Team Starting Today!
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Building Breakthrough Boards - Step 4: Engage
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Board Committee Overload
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Engaging Trustee's
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