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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...
Re-energising the team post-lockdown: Podcast
Listen to Megan’s tips about re-energising our teams as we come out of the COVID lockdown.
Grants, Fundraising and Financial Sustainability – Part One
This topic is huge! And more than we could ever cover in just one blog post! So I am going to scratch the surface across a three-part series. In today's post, let's look at Financial Sustainability. Solvency Keeping your organisation solvent is one of the key...
Five-point Governance Check-up
Lots of the not-for-profit organisations I have been talking to lately are feeling a bit dejected as a result of not being able to do much of their normal activity during the pandemic. As vaccination rates rise and hopes increase that the year ahead will be better...
COVID challenges for not-for-profits
There is no doubt that COVID has created all manner of challenges for our not-for-profit organisations. From an inability to meet, to restrictions on the provision of important services to members and other stakeholders. Last week I hosted the first in a series of...
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