January 31, 2020
Ladies and gentlemen please meet Jimmy LaRose. Some of you may know the name Patrick Henry. Some of you are familiar with Crispus Attucks. Some of you may know, “give me liberty or give me death.” Perhaps, you know, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison or even the name Steve Jobs. These are men who fomented a revolution and changed the way we do things. At every one of these junctures, life was […]
December 30, 2019
Jimmy LaRose shares a New Year’s Resolution for nonprofit administrators, staff, board members and volunteers that’s both powerful and achievable. Here’s what he has to say: Let me reveal to you a 2020 New Year’s resolution that you can fulfill with great ease by week’s end that ensures you become the successful Nonprofit CEO charities’ so desperately need. Please repeat after me: “I resolve, in the year 2020 ,to SWITCH my membership […]
October 9, 2019
Nonprofit Strategic Planning is Dead! Quit it, Stop Wasting Your Time. Old thinking prevents CEOs from achieving their important mission. Here’s what stopped working 25 years ago: #1 SWOT Analysis – Failed & Archaic (OH MY LORD…PLEASE END IT NOW!) #2 Board Retreats – Cocktails on Friday Evening (everyone’s gone before 12:00pm on Saturday) #3 Visioning – “Who Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up?” The question is a adolescent. […]
September 7, 2019
Why Do Nonprofits Fail? Does it seem a bit crowded in here? A few years ago, during his presidential campaign, Dr. Ben Carson made the statement that 90% of nonprofits fail within a few years. While Dr. Carson’s statement was largely hyperbole, it did call to attention the alarming rate of both nonprofit failure and ineffectiveness. The real data from National Center on Charitable Statistics reveals that approximately 30% of nonprofits fail […]
June 12, 2019
National Association of Nonprofit Organizations and Executives’ approach to raising money is motivated by one goal: to achieve heroic missions of scale which change and save lives so completely, that money chases after them. Through the use of the Major Gifts Ramp-Up Model (which has been tested and refined for 28 years) nonprofit fundraisers focus on the needs of donors, not the needs of their organizations. By applying free market principles relating […]
