by Stacey Wedding | Sep 26, 2017 | non-profits
Recently I had the pleasure of presenting Elephants in the Nonprofit Board Room™ at the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Conference in San Francisco. One of the attendees followed up with me and shared, “I’m very proud that we have a 100% giving board....
by Stacey Wedding | Sep 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
In an earlier post, I wrote about strategic planning being a critical tool for your organization’s success. A strategic plan describes where your organization is going by laying out measurable goals and explaining why those goals are important. A strategic plan also...
by Stacey Wedding | Aug 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Recently, Jim, a long-time friend who leads a nonprofit service organization, asked for my help with some program development work. The project sounded interesting and fun, and as we talked Jim became increasingly animated as his excitement grew—that is, until I...
by Stacey Wedding | Jun 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Let’s Make a Deal During the 1980s, the popularity of TV game shows declined so dramatically that networks would only commit to a 13-week run—and rarely kept tapes of the shows. But in their heyday of the 1950s and 1960s game shows were a staple of both primetime and...
by Stacey Wedding | May 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mobile mindedness sounds easy, right? I mean most of us are so connected to our cell phones, conjoined twins have gone through easier separations. It’s funny to think that we—the people who would rather risk our lives in a car than put our cells down—are sometimes the...