Stakeholder consultations

How to consult effectively with stakeholders.

A summary of highlights: Project management overview

Project management is a mixture of strategy, methodology, communication, and leadership. If you have been following this series of articles, you will have become acquainted with many of the basic lessons in each of these areas.

Governance Q&A: Should alcohol be served during internal events at a nonprofit?

This simple-sounding question raises a set of thorny questions that each organization seems to answer separately.

The art and science of setting objectives

How to set achievable, realistic and effective goals for a nonprofit organization.

Project evaluation: Measurements of success

There are many, many methodologies for evaluating projects. A helpful tip is to realize that almost all of these resources will fall into one of three types.

Governance Q&A: Who on a board of directors needs to know what the executive director earns?

A board member wonders if it's normal that only the executive committee knows what an executive director earns.

Ten myths of global civil society

Dr. Lester Salamon, author, professor at Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies was the keynote speaker at Imagine Canada’s Symposium “Learning from the World: Canada’s Charitable & Nonprofit Sector through a Global Lens.”

Project communications in one thousand words or less

Communication is fundamental to smoothly delivering a project. Not-for-profit projects often involve multiple stakeholders, several organizations, and several funders – making good communication even more critical.

Governance Q&A: When being told to do something feels wrong

A program manager is told to do something that doesn’t feel right, but can’t justify not following through when referencing guidance documents.