Finalists in the Fourth Annual Mission Statement Competition

This year I invited four consultants who are excellent regular presenters for Nonprofit Webinars to join me in reviewing entries to the Grea...

Renew Enthusiasm

Corporations may not be people, but nonprofits fundamentally are. Everyone involved with your organization cares about your cause. But are y...

Tips for new initiatives

Nonprofit staffs and boards are mission-driven. It can be tempting, when encountering a compelling issue related to your cause, to take on a...

Mission Statement Winners 2012... and More

It’s time to wrap up the Third Annual Great Mission Statement Competition.  The winner of the Great Mission Statement prize for 2012 is  Lit...

Third Annual Mission Statement Competition Finalists

There was a big jump in the number of entries this year, both in the Great Mission Statement category and in the Mission Statement Makeover...

Mission Statement Competiton Entries and Judging

The Mission Statement Competition for 2012 will culminate tomorrow with the webinar What’s a Mission Statement Worth? During the webinar we...

Third Annual What's Your Mission? Competition

The job of a mission statement is to articulate the essence of why the organization exists. If you don’t articulate it, then it’s very likel...

More Mission Statement Makeovers

Winding up the year, this is the last of three posts on the Mission Statement Makeover competition. Despite the caveat in the first post abo...