Fast Build Friday®

When something is important enough to you, they say you should "put your money where your mouth is." What happens when you don't? Today's Fast Build is about holding grant…

How do you hold grant makers accountable? Who's going to do it? We'll wait.... Today's Fast Build topic is holding grant makers accountable for equity and inclusion. In it, Nic…

Are you asking the same diligence questions that you were asking your grantees 5 years ago? And is your governance structure the last thing on your mind? These questions will…

Think fast: Is your nonprofit a membership corporation? Okay. What decision-making authority do your members have (and we don't mean board members)? I'll wait. 🙂 Did you know that knowing…

Does a #nonprofit organization having a single organizational value make you question its commitment to the work? Do more values = more commitment? Today's Fast Build topic is how having…

Do you think you could build a perfect organization? A perfect board? A perfect team? What if we told you that chasing perfection is a race to the bottom? Today's…

Recently, we have seen organizations requesting help with incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into their grant making. We know the issue as soon as we see the request and…

If we separately asked you and a colleague who works closely with you to define risk, would you share the same definition? What if we asked everyone in your organization?…

What if we told you the reason you should build a process, but our actions revealed a different reason...could you build it? You would be surprised at how many times…

How do you plan for an organization that does not exist? Have you ever done that? We do it all the time. It is partly why we specialize in creating…