I had a board member from a nonprofit organization tell  me that their board decided they should stop focusing so   much on performance measures and consider other means  of evaluating their executive. After I stopped choking on the water that I happened to swallow at that very moment, I asked her why? She said [...]

Last week a spotlight was focused on education in San Antonio.  An impressive delegation which included the United Way of Bexar County, City of San Antonio, United Way International, the Department of Education, and Promise Neighborhoods Initiatives toured the targeted schools, Tynan Early Childhood Center, Bowden Elementary, Pershing Elementary, Washington Elementary, Wheatley Middle and Sam [...]

It has been 5 months since I last blogged.  A lot has happened during that time: Twitter has become more popular; facebook is going public ; Steve Jobs, Whitney Houston and North Korea’s evil dictator all died; we started a new year; the economy is showing signs of turning around; and I……..completed my graduate work, [...]

I was reading an article by Paul Connolly, in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In the article, Connolly discusses how some people propose that the best thing you can fund in a nonprofit is the fundraising arm of the organization.  Connolly suggests that tactic is short-sighted: This evidence is consistent with other research on nonprofit [...]

I am doing some work helping a local nonprofit organization transform their culture.  One of the development tools I am using with them is based on one of my favorite management books First, Break All the Rules, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.  I so appreciate that the messages they deliver are not just based [...]