What Makes Good Values Statements?
Your organization’s mission is why you do what you do.
Your vision is the change you intend to make on the people and places you serve.
Your values? They are the truths that you hold dear. The [Read more]
What Makes a Good Vision Statement?
All too often, vision statements are, “to be the best (fill in the blank) in the world.”
To build the best product… To offer the best customer service… To become the most recognized… And so on.
The [Read more]
What Makes a Good Mission Statement?
Question: What is 141 words (1,031 characters with spaces) that was recently updated and approved by the board?
Answer: A nonprofit organization mission statement.
While the number of words is clearly a problem, it’s also the never-ending [Read more]
Gender Equality Call to Action.
Melinda Gates is my hero.
She is not only investing her money in gender equality issues — she is raising the topic to the highest levels of debate. She is not only asking tough questions [Read more]
The Ethics of Fundraising.
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) recognizes October as ethics awareness month. Each day this month, the team at AFP is blogging about the tenets that make up their Code of Ethical Standards, [Read more]
Five Questions to Drive Strategic Planning.
Strategic planning can be an insightful, generative, and clarifying process that propels an organization forward. Or, it can be an obligatory chore that is more formulaic than revelatory.
We want the former for you, not the [Read more]
Board Governance Part Three — Funding and Finances.
If you serve on a nonprofit board, can you answer this question?
What drives the organization’s economic engine?
Is it philanthropy? Events? Fees-for-service? Third-party reimbursements? Or maybe social enterprise?
While cash flow is critical in the operations of [Read more]
Board Governance Part Two — Meetings and Committees.
What percentage of your board meeting is spent discussing the past?
Do a majority of your board members speak in a meeting? Or is it mostly listening to a select few?
Are your board and committee meetings [Read more]
Board Governance Part One — Top Three Roles.
While a nonprofit governing board is critical to the health of the organization, the board’s role in the work of the organization is not always clear.
BoardSource, the country’s leading authority on nonprofit board governance, [Read more]
Campus and Community — Part Two.
The arts play a vital role on campus and in the broader community because performances and exhibitions bring diverse people together in a shared experience.
Earlier this year The Ohio State University unveiled plans for [Read more]
Campus and Community — Part One.
This week celebrates National Radio Day. It also marks back to school at The Ohio State University as 60,000+ students begin another year as a Buckeye.
We recognize both occasions with a reflection on WOSU [Read more]
Celebrating One at the End of Summer.
Summer and baseball are as synonymous as first birthdays and smash cakes.
What better way to celebrate both than for Mayor Ginther to invite one-year-olds in Columbus to attend the final Columbus Clippers baseball game of [Read more]
School Days.
August marks back to school. A time of transition for kindergarteners through college students.
With the leadership of Mayor Andrew Ginther, August also welcomes more pre-kindergarteners, as his vision is that every four-year-old in Columbus has [Read more]
Mollard Consulting on the Road in August.
One of our favorite activities as a consulting firm is to facilitate workshops in order to build capacity. We believe that consulting is teaching, and that teaching is learning.
Every time we gather with nonprofit and [Read more]
Call 211. HandsOn Central Ohio Will Help.
The numbers are staggering.
- 124,166 emergency food appointments to put more than one million meals on the tables of hungry neighbors.
- $614,303 in direct financial assistance for rent, mortgage, and utility obligations to keep residents [Read more]