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Is Your Board Ready to Manage an Executive Search?
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Feb 20

The selection and hiring of an organizational leader is the most important decision any nonprofit board is likely to make. So much depends on...

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Board Leadership Succession: What Do We Do When No One Will Step Up?
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Sep 7

I recently met with an executive director of a nonprofit who told me, “My board chair and my treasurer are both ‘interim’.”...

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Lonely at the Top
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Sep 14

We are pleased to offer this post by Alan Cantor, New Hampshire-based organizational consultant, as part of our Mission Driven Leadershift...

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Why You Need a Yoda and Where to Find One
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Aug 24

As the air turns crisp and you get stuck behind school buses again on your way to work, pause and consider: as a nonprofit professional, who are...

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Interim or No Interim?
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Jul 19

We are pleased to offer this post by Cathy Kidman, organizational consultant and experienced Interim Executive Director, as part of our Mission...

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A Tale from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in MANP’s Leadership Transition
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Jun 29

We are pleased to offer this post by Scott Schnapp, MANP’s outgoing Executive Director, as part of our Mission Driven Leadershift...

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Surviving and Thriving in Times of Transition
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted May 26

We are pleased to offer this guest post by Tony Cipollone, President and CEO, John T. Gorman Foundation, as part of our Mission Driven Leadershift...

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Succession: Lessons Learned on the Other Side…So Far
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Apr 25

We are pleased to offer this guest post by Laurie Wolf, President & CEO of Alaska’s Foraker Group, as part of our Mission Driven...

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Internal Executive Succession: Demystifying the Potential for Organizational Gains and Disasters
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Mar 22

We are pleased to offer this guest post by Thomas Adams, Director of Succession and Sustainability at Raffa, as part of our Mission Driven...

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Seven Tips for a Smooth Transition from a Recently-Retired CEO
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Mar 2

We are pleased to offer this guest post by Meredith Jones, former President and CEO of Maine Community Foundation, as part of our Mission Driven...

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Balancing LeaderShift Risk and Reward
Posted In: Governance + Leadership, Leadership Transition, Staff + Volunteer Teams,
Date posted Feb 22

We are pleased to offer this guest post by Melanie Herman, Executive Director of Nonprofit Risk Management Center as part of our Mission Driven...

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