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2012 Executive Director Strategy Sessions

2012-01-17T16:46:37+00:00

The pace of change in the nonprofit sector is continuing to increase. Nonprofit leaders are challenged to maintain their current services, as demand for those service increases and the funds...

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Happy Holidays!

2011-12-30T16:26:51+00:00

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Are there too many nonprofits?

2011-12-19T19:33:51+00:00

In our work around strategic alliances in and among nonprofit organizations, I am often asked: Are there too many nonprofits? In many instances, there are too many nonprofits…and in...

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Getting the Right People on the Bus: It’s all about your nonprofit’s stage of development….

2011-11-29T16:04:46+00:00

So Anne has been writing about how to fix dysfunctional Boards (Part I and Part II) and clearly her analogy draws on the adage, “Get the right people on the bus.” It is a great...

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Fixing the Bus: Turning Around a Dysfunctional Board

2011-11-21T13:47:43+00:00

In Part I, I shared with you the tale of a dysfunctional Board of Directors (i.e. the big yellow bus) with no direction and a lost group of reluctant, but well-intentioned passengers. To...

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Where is this bus going? A Tale of a Dysfunctional Board

2011-11-16T14:28:25+00:00

Recently I was asked, “Why are Boards so dysfunctional?” This individual was not new to Board service and was, in fact, serving on three nonprofit Boards. He lamented,...

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Fall 2011 Learning Opportunities

2011-09-19T19:27:02+00:00

Fio Partners Management Development Series: • October 4th - Introduction to Supervision • October 18th - Understanding and Addressing Performance Issues • November 1st - Improving Your...

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June 21st - A workshop for Connecticut CPAs working with Nonprofits

2011-06-15T18:33:53+00:00

We are pleased to announce that Fio Partners will be presenting at an upcoming conference in CT. The Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants is holding a Nonprofit Organizations...

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Managing and Leading: The Helix as a Metaphor for Organizational Change

2011-03-14T19:13:58+00:00

If we think of the tasks of managing and leading (M&L) as activities that steer an organization in a certain direction and sustain its well-being, then it stands to reason that there are themes...

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Are you exploring consolidation? Which segment are you?

2010-11-29T13:28:27+00:00

I attended a meeting recently about a local United Way conference that potentially will deal with exposing nonprofits to models and ideas concerning consolidation. As the discussion proceeded,...

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Consolidation of the sector? Maybe not.

2010-11-19T11:26:34+00:00

Well, the study is out. One would have thought that, if the sector was going to consolidate in a big way, that time would be now. Our firm is certainly doing some of this work,...

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Getting back to writing…

2010-11-17T14:07:33+00:00

Apologies to our readers for the long the delay in adding to our blog posts. These have been difficult months with major surgery, a long recovery and then resuming our consulting practice post...

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Nonprofit Collaboration - Tools and Funding Opportunities

2010-06-02T13:35:32+00:00

In the last month or so, we have come across some exciting funding opportunities for collaboration as well as some online tools that may be helpful to nonprofits looking to...

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Getting Started with Nonprofit Collaboration

2010-03-27T13:59:34+00:00

At a recent event sponsored by the Liberty Bank Foundation, Jane was asked by an audience member, "I have no resources to pay a consultant to help us determine if we can identify ways to...

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Tips for Saving Money in the Back Office

2010-02-02T21:05:44+00:00

A recent project to help an Executive Director whose agency has had to downsize infrastructure to match a reduced program portfolio led to some interesting learning that I thought I would...

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Understanding Trust Issues

2010-01-21T13:00:00+00:00

I received an interesting question from one of our clients who has had to lay people off, not once, but twice, in the last year. She shared with me her feeling that she had somehow undermined...

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2010…off and running!

2010-01-15T15:07:32+00:00

A new year. A new decade. Welcome 2010! As we are two weeks into 2010, Jane and I were noting that a year ago we believed the trends in 2009 would include retrenchment and...

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Evaluating the CEO/Executive Director in a Tough Economy

2009-12-09T16:22:10+00:00

Coming up with a meaningful evaluation model for the CEO or Executive Director can be difficult for Boards in the best of times. What should Board’s do in the worst of...

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November Nonprofit Blog Carnival - Considering Collaboration

2009-11-30T12:00:00+00:00

It is absolutely our pleasure to be hosting this month's Nonprofit Blog Carnival. As much of our work revolves around collaborative efforts between and among nonprofits and their...

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What Kind of Collaborative Partner Are You?

2009-11-29T12:00:00+00:00

Over the course of working on collaborative models for fifteen years, we have noticed that organizational leaders who seek collaboration fall into three distinct types. We call them (1)...

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