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Latest Articles and PodcastsSharing expert industry insights to the not-for-profit sector. If you’re serious about organisational capability and want tools and information to advance your work then read on.
A Bit About Me: My work with not-for-profits
“How do you help not-for-profits?” This is a question I’m asked often…in a nutshell, I support not-for-profit boards and executives to improve their organisation’s governance and overall effectiveness. And I do this in a range of ways. Through my various training...
Building Capability: The Power of the External
I often liken my role as an external facilitator to one of ‘directing traffic’ – my job is to help everything move along in the right direction, so people can reach their desired destinations, in a reasonably orderly fashion. But of course, in reality, it is...
Good Governance: The role of Leadership in Good Governance
What is the role of leadership in good governance? Is it important? Does it even matter? If we think about governance as: ‘the systems and processes within an organisation that ensure its Purpose, Values, Vision and Mission remain at the heart of everything it does,...
A Bit About Me: Meet My Clients
"Who do you work with?" This is a question I often get asked...and in some ways, it's a hard one to answer! Because I work with all sorts of organisations. While they are generally not-for-profits, I have also worked with small businesses over the years, but these...
Building Capability: Can we sustain the recent pace of change within our not-for-profit organisations?
PIVOT was definitely the word of 2020 – and 2021 as it turned out. Things have had to change on many levels – operationally, from a policy perspective, and from just about every other perspective in between. And often more than once. So, after more than two years of...
Good Governance: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – some tips for being one of The Good
When things go right and things go wrong – the good, the bad and the ugly of governance. What is this thing called governance? I know it’s a term I bandy about – A LOT – but sometimes I forget that it’s not necessarily a commonly used term for other people. Let’s...
Aligning Strategy with Purpose: Podcast
The value that not-for-profits add to the world is rooted in their Purpose. But so many seem to lose sight of that, in the busyness of the day-to-day. Bruce and I talk about keeping your Purpose at the centre of your work, and explore how you can better align your...
A Bit About Me: My journey from Support Worker to Governance Queen
For me, it's always been about the people. When I look back on my career, the work I have been drawn to has always been about helping other people in one way or another. When I was still at Uni, I started a casual job working as a support worker in group homes for...
Building Capability: The importance of good Succession Planning
It seems like nearly every not-for-profit organisation I talk to these days is struggling to find people willing to put up their hands for positions on their Boards (or Committees of Management). And without a well-functioning governing body, any organisation is...
Grants, Fundraising and Financial Sustainability – Part Three
In the final installment of this three-part series, we are going to take a look at Fundraising more broadly, as effective fundraising activities can come in a whole range of shapes and sizes - the possibilities really are only limited by your imagination! Have a...
The importance of celebrating the year past: Podcast
How to look for even the littlest of things that gave us a win during 2021.
Grants, Fundraising and Financial Sustainability – Part Two
Following on from Part One of this three-part series, today in Part Two let's look at Grants as a means of generating funds for our not-for-profits. Here are some handy tips below to help you on your pathway to grant success. Be Grant-smart before you start Do your...
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