Pulled from the website www.blueavocado.org, a nonprofit online magazine for community nonprofits. Blue Avocado is published every third Tuesday through an HTML newsletter delivered to more than 50,000 subscribers. Thanks to its sponsors and members, Blue Avocado subscriptions ar e free. Alternatives to Strategic Planning By Jan Masaoka • March 14, 2011 • In Part [...]
Thanks to Kat Morgan for sharing these free training opportunities with CommonGood VT. Presented by Synthesis Partnership of Newton, MA these weekly online webinars cover a wide array of topics. Synthesis Partnership works with nonprofit organizations facing or creating change to align strategy, identity, capacity and facilities with vision, mission and values. Organized by NonprofitWebinars.Com, [...]
With Merrryn Rutledge of Revisions, LLC Click here to watch Originally produced: 5/26/2010 Through this recorded webinar, learn the “brass tacks” of strategic planning from the woman who wrote the book! Understand the parts of a strategic plan and the planning process and how to match a comprehensive plan with your organization’s needs and resources. [...]
Marty Jacobs has worked with countless nonprofits and government agencies and knows that 80% of all “change management” efforts fail. If you’ve ever worked on a strategic plan and then tried to implement it, you’ll know how hard it is to actually change the way you do business. That’s why Marty is so excited to talk about a useful framework for implementing strategic change. We had a great discussion in White River Junction (at the studios of CATV) last week with Marty and a small group of smart nonprofit leaders about what good planning means and how to overcome the predictable barriers to that keep your people and organization from doing its best work.
It’s called D.I.C.E. — what you need to make your change effort succeed: Duration (enough time), Integrity (quality of the team), Commitment (from the bottom and the TOP), and Effort (realistic assessment of what it takes). This “tool” is informed by a seminal article “The Hard Side of Change Management” researched and written by Harold L. Sirkin, Perry Keenan, and Alan Jackson and published in the Harvard Business Review in October 2005. Here’s more…
Sign up today for Common Good Vermont’s 2010 Spring Training and connect with the programs you’ve been asking for, presenters you trust and fellow peers in the field! For more information, RSVP below or get in touch with us at coordinator@commongoodvt.org Friday, May 14 at Brandon Town Hall – RSVP Topic: Measure Your Impact (10:30 [...]
WATCH NOW – May 14th Common Good Vermont Webinar – Strategic Management: Self-Assess Your Internal Capacity Presented by Anne Yurasek of FIO Partners and Common Good Vermont, this hour long webinar focuses of s on building a baseline of understanding about your organization’s internal management capacity. By using this tool, you will be able to [...]
Now available at the online archives for you to watch, comment and ask questions! Strategic Plans are living documents meant to guide your organizational priorities and future direction. Watch this panel of experienced nonprofit leaders for an informative and engaging discussion of why and how strategic thinking + planning can improve your nonprofit’s outcomes. Post [...]
As part of the new Nonprofit Maven series we are pleased to present a series of Strategic Planning events and webinars that will give you the tools you need to start or keep going with planning your organization’s future! Self-Assess Your Internal Capacity with Anne Yurasek of FIO Partners (5/4, 1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m [...]
Common Good Vermont is pleased to present the first in a series of “Nonprofit Maven” learning events to help you build your strategic plan, improve your outcomes and change the way you do business! RSVP Now. Join us on Thursday April 1 at Noon for a live panel discussion with nonprofit veterans about what it [...]
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