Last week, The Patterson Foundation sponsored an all-day session for the 12 Florida-based consultants who have completed Phase I and Phase II La Piana Consulting training.
Five months have passed and it was time to check-in to see how they are doing in terms of collaborative restructuring projects, business development, learning additional technical skills and clinic.
The [...]
Thanks to a few professional colleagues who make sure I’m in the loop, I never have to hunt for examples of failed nonprofit partnerships.
I try not to read too much into why they only send the failed ones. I guess they’re just trying to keep me grounded.
So, when I opened an e-mail from a local [...]
I was inspired by Hal Williams, whom I had the privilege to hear last week at the Community Foundation of Sarasota County’s Nonprofit Forum.
Williams is a guide and resource to foundations, governments, and individuals who invest to improve human lives and conditions—and for nonprofit and community organizations that use their money [...]
Before persons from the male species roll their eyes at my choice of photos, please read on…
Some years ago, I heard THE Andrew Young, former Congressman, United Nations Ambassador, spiritual leader and Mayor of Atlanta (to list a just a few of his accomplishments) speak. Young described the story of how Atlanta won the bid [...]
I’ve written a good number of blogs that focus on the role of facilitators and their important part in helping nonprofits explore opportunities for new realities. The most recent was how The Patterson Foundation and a group of 12 Florida-based consultants completed La Piana facilitation training and are now ready to step out.
If your reaction [...]
I’m shocked. Wikipedia lumps ‘grateful’ (a word I use daily) in with gratitude, thankfulness and appreciation, collectively labeling them emotions.
Well, then. I guess I’ll have to haul out the 25 lb. 2500-page Random House Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged, a gift from my now departed Mother in Law, a librarian, who believed all arguments could be [...]
For those who are in the philanthropy space and have access to Chronicle of Philanthropy’s article Mergers Are Just One Way Charities Find to Team Up and Battle a Tough Economy – it’s a good read, touching on a number of different aspects of nonprofit partnerships.
The last four paragraphs speak to the rewards and benefits [...]
In the past 18 months—the time that I’ve been in this space—I’ve written or read more about partnerships for organizations providing homeless services than any other. No question that the protracted poor economic conditions drove the partnerships, but outcomes put each of the organizations on a trajectory for transformational change.
Each partnership is not just unique [...]
Finally.
This week’s blog is in an area where I have a great deal of first-hand knowledge. I am a card-carrying Baby Boomer, part of a small U.S. demographic bubble of about 78 million.
Many Boomers officially kicked off ‘retirement’ in January 2011 when the first wave turned 65 at the rate of nearly 7,000 people [...]
Judging from the looks on their faces,the message we were sharing at the Southeastern Council of Foundation annual meeting was ‘new’ information.
We brought together a great group to share about collaboration:
Diana Bucco, The Forbes Funds
Lois Savage, The Lodestar Foundation
Dawn Martz, The Foellinger Foundation
Lita Pardi, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Pam Truitt (me) The Patterson [...]