NEWS & RESOURCES TO SUPPORT YOU
Bringing Innovation to Capacity Building
Social innovation may increase our effectiveness in certain areas, but without thoughtful investment in the capacity nonprofits, is it all for naught?
How to Incentivize Risk Taking in Your Organization
Nonprofits are often caught between competing demands of board or funder expectations and risk taking.
Resilient Leadership When Change is Hard
During times of transformation, every single member of a nonprofit staff needs to be resilient.
Nonprofits Share What Matters and What’s Measured
What are nonprofits measuring, and what are themes in output data? Nonprofits share progress and results at GuideStar Platinum.
Data-Informed Decision-Making
A comprehensive data strategy goes beyond collecting one-off measurements and can inform your decision making.
Track Toward Strategic Goals
Implementing a process for collecting data and metrics at pre-determined, regular intervals can help effectively work toward and measure your strategic goals.
Brand Stories, Data and Impact
Combine outcomes data and storytelling to transform your measurement into compelling and meaningful brand stories.
Surprising Truth about Funders and Data
Most nonprofits are measuring outcomes, but their thoughts on working with funders and data gives us reason to pause.
The System Within
When embarking on organizational change, consider that there's a complex system within your organization, made up of interconnected teams and activities.
Foundation for Successful Collaborative Projects
We understand the value of a collaborative project, but why are they so hard to get right? This pre-work sets you up for success.
The Need for Interim Leadership
We’re witnessing increased attention and warranted anxiety of leadership gaps leading to a growing need in interim leadership.
Austin’s Potential to Succeed
Pulling from national research on what makes a city “high-performing,” we address Austin’s potential to succeed in solving community challenges.
Purposeful Corporate Giving can Transform Communities
The more that companies authentically and actively engage in corporate giving, the more community problems get solved.
Meet Austin’s New Certified Interim EDs
We recruit and train talented leaders to assist your organization. Avoid a leadership gap with a Certified Interim ED.
Network Approach to Leadership
This interview with Heather McLeod Grant discusses a network approach to leadership in order to create systemic change.