April 29, 2015 Bower Discrimination Diversity Nonprofit Leadership Nonprofit Organizations Cultures Are Not Bumper Stickers*: Valuing Diversity and Subverting Discrimination America has a history of cultural diversity and tension around it. Our cultures are integral to our individual and group identities – usuall...
April 08, 2015 Bower Collaboration nonprofit Nonprofit Leadership The Sky's the Limit!: Collaboration and Your Organization Nonprofit collaborations have proliferated in recent years, both in number and array of collaboration styles. Nonprofits can partner interse...
March 11, 2015 Bower Non-Profit Leadership Non-profits Strategic Planning If Robert Burns Knew about Strategic Planning: What We Know Now that He Didn't Then The famous Robert Burns quote says “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry,” and while it’s true that rigid planning often fails ...
February 17, 2015 Bower Challenge to Change Nonprofit Leadership Nonprofit Organizations Is Your Organization Ready for Change? Change is hard. I think most of us would agree that sudden disruptions to our routine make us uncomfortable, and require more than our norma...
January 27, 2015 Bower Nonprofit Leadership What is a Sector Anyway? The term “nonprofit sector” has become something of a buzzword in our modern society, but what does it mean? How is a nonprofit different th...