Trust and change…and how to arrange your bookshelf
Hal’s Blog- Don’t bother to put the two parts of the title together. All they have in common is being the subject of passages I read last week that left me unsettled. The first is from a program report and came in a highlighted box: Change happens at the speed of trust. Trust takes time and discourse to achieve. Meanwhile, don’t push for improvements. I like reversing this...
Signs from above
Hal’s blog- What if nonprofit organizations acted like gas stations?
The Report or the Change?
Hal’s Blog- My partner Robyn and I had a great discussion the other day about how nonprofits typically hire consultants to do one of two things. The first is to study an organization and provide observations and recommendations in an area the organization wishes to improve.
What Happens after a program?
Hal’s blog- I was speaking with my colleague Michael Corley the other day about how best to understand the longer-term impacts from a program designed to help nonprofits. My interest was practical. My Results1st partner, Robyn Faucy, led a four-part program for a number of nonprofits…
Paying for Results…or the motivation to achieve them
Hal’s blog-I once worked with a Connecticut foundation whose grantee ran an afterschool program for struggling middle school students. We had been provided a list of students who did significantly better in school during the year they attended this program.
Where and How to Scale Nonprofit Success
Hal’s Blog -Over breakfast recently with a very smart foundation leader, John Annis, we discussed our shared interest in growing successful programs and organizations.Musings on Milestone Management
I spent two hours on January 10, 2020, morning with 80 plus bright eyed leaders and staff of nonprofits in Manatee County, Florida. Our subject was Milestone Management. Simply put, what do you look at that tells you that your participants are making progress that forecasts they will get to a result—whether a job, a house, grade level reading, or anything else important. I was again...