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Why capacity building needs to include Pause, Connection, and Belonging. 

For this month’s Impact story, I wanted to share excerpts directly from a nonprofit leader’s share on our latest podcast – linked at the end of this newsletter. His name is Slade Custer and he’s the Director of Development (think head of fundraising) for Food to Power, a nonprofit in Colorado Springs, CO whose mission […]
April 14, 2023
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What does your organization do?

Simple question?  Ask five people in your organization and see what you get. Try asking the board, the community, and your clients. The answer is almost always not as simple as it seems.  We’ve found that many  nonprofits are struggling with one or more of the following questions:  You may say, what’s the big deal […]
April 14, 2023
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Re-energizing a Strategic Plan – 3 hour Operationalizing Workshop

NAMI Colorado Springs plays an important role in improving the mental health of residents in Colorado Springs, CO and they needed support to take their current strategic plan and “energize” it by co-creating measurable goals and action plans for the year ahead. Through our 3-hour Re-energize Your Strategic Plan workshop, the team generated success metrics […]
March 17, 2023
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Outsmart The AI By Mastering the Art of Facilitation

If recent advances in AI have you worried about your job, we get it. ChatGPT may solve poorly written emails, but it can’t do everything. One thing robots will (probably) never do well is facilitation. According to a recent report from the World Economic Forum, employers are increasingly looking for people with problem-solving and critical-thinking […]
March 17, 2023
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To Plan or Not to Plan…

Have you thrown planning out the window? If the answer is yes, you aren’t alone.  A recent article by Forbes highlights that the constant change brought on by the pandemic has caused many of us to throw planning out the window. The idea is, hey, if all my plans were wrong, why should I keep planning? I’m […]
February 17, 2023
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Building a strong culture with “Psychological Contracts”

Being a nonprofit leader is hard these days. There is a potential recession looming, staffing shortages abound, and in many cases, the need for the work has grown– in some areas exponentially. These conditions plopped in the middle of a world where everything moves at hyper-speed, can make it hard to build and maintain a […]
January 13, 2023
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Data = INSPIRING

How helpful would it be for your community to give you feedback and help you to hone the unique value you bring to them? Community co-creation is possible. Gathering community data and getting insight doesn’t have to look like a one-and-done survey (not very connective) or an all-day affair (exhausting). It can be fun, generative, […]
December 9, 2022
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Community Foundation Invests In Local Nonprofit Leadership Development

Pikes Peak Community Foundation and THRIVE IMPACT Partner to increase resiliency and capacity for nonprofit leaders in Colorado Springs in an innovative way Did you know that at least 50% of nonprofit leaders are burned out? We’re working hard to change that in Colorado Springs through a partnership between THRIVE IMPACT and the Pikes Peak Community Foundation (PPCF). […]
November 11, 2022
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The Pain Of An Irrelevant Strategic Plan

Every month at our free THRIVE IMPACT 101 workshop I ask, “Have you ever dealt with the pain of an irrelevant strategic plan?” And do you know how many people raise their hands?   Every. Single. Leader.  Why are strategic plans so painful for so many nonprofit leaders? Especially with how much we invest in them. […]
January 17, 2022
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Three Words for 2021

Happy New Year! You may be totally into new year’s resolutions. But if you’re like me, they don’t work very well for execution on a daily basis. Mainly because what I need are guideposts along the way that help me make focused decisions. So, what I’ve found much more helpful is a practice called “My […]
January 1, 2021
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6 powerful insights from 2020 in order to thrive in 2021

One thing we know is that as humans we don’t learn very well from our experiences if we don’t intentionally reflect on them and see how specific insights can help us moving forward.  So we asked ourselves…  From all of the conversations, all of the workshops, all of the feedback and data we’ve gathered from […]
January 1, 2021
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You’re Not An Employment Agency

It’s one of the toughest jobs that nonprofit CEOs have to face… the need for organizational staffing changes. Over the years, while serving as a CEO of different nonprofits, I have found myself often looking at an outdated organizational chart (if they had one!) and wondering – “What do all these people do?” and “How […]
August 9, 2020
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