Successfully Managing Your Executive Team: A Guide for Nonprofit CEOs
Successfully managing your Executive Team can be one of the biggest challenges for nonprofit CEOs. It can be a nightmare if not done intentionally, so it requires careful planning and execution. This was the topic of a recent quarterly Executive Forum we...
Do you have a Year-End Fundraising Strategy for 2023?
Note: Giving Tuesday can be an important focal point for planning your year-end fundraising campaign.September is a great month to begin planning your year-end fundraising strategy. If you have never specifically done a year-end fundraising strategy, I encourage you...
What to do if Board Members Don’t Want to Fundraise
What do you do when board members don’t want to be involved in fundraising? Many nonprofit executives face this unfortunate situation. Learnings from AFP-ICON I spoke at & attended this year’s AFP-ICON conference in New Orleans and came away with many insights...
Proven Strategies for Growing Small Organizations
The Small Organization's Refrain: "There Never Seems to Be Enough Money." As a young or small organization, when it comes to growing your organization's revenue and impact, do you know where to begin? To clarify, by small organizations, we are talking about those with...
Why This is THE Time To Build Your Individual Donor Program
Individual Giving to Nonprofits is Down again in 2022 Every year The Giving Institute publishes its Giving USA report on the state of philanthropic giving in the US. Although there were bump-ups in giving during the pandemic, especially from very wealthy individuals,...
How do I Become a Better Leader?
Can you become a better leader? Is it something you can learn or, are you born with leadershp skills? James Clawson asks these questions in his article "Is Leadership Born or Built?" in the Washington Post. Experts have lots of opinions. Nigel Nicholson author of...
Community Foundation Builds Grantees’ Leadership Effectiveness
How do you become an effective leader? We pursue this question for ourselves and others every day. One way we do this is to partner with the High Point Community Foundation. For a third year, HIGOL is providing support to the Foundation's high potential grantees...
How Do You Make Better Decisions? Join us to explore.
How do you make better decisions? It is one of your main jobs as a CEO or Executive Director. You are called to make dozens to hundreds of decisions a week depending on your organization's size and activities. To improve decision-making, first, let's look at how...
What to Expect from Executive Coaching with HIGOL
Executive Coaching has become increasingly common within companies to help executives and high potential employees improve performance. Specifically, we have found that executive coaching for non-profit leaders adds value, impact and revenue. Coaching also helps the...
The Capitol Insurrection – What Can We Learn as Leaders & Human Beings?
As I write this, we are still reeling from seeing the US Capitol overrun by individuals with clear intentions of violence. These intentions, in part, were based on disinformation, continuously stoked by a sitting President. Now this President has been impeached for...
