“Drawing from a range of civil society voices, this report outlines some of the many civil society responses to the pandemic, highlights its vital contributions, draws preliminary lessons and makes recommendations for states and other stakeholders to enable and work with civil society, both in pandemic response and recovery and Read more…
Maybe your organization benefits from the support of existing funders, who provide guaranteed support each year to cover all needs. Maybe your organization benefits from an endowment or reserve fund, that generates significant interest income which can be applied directly to all costs. Or maybe your organization, like many organizations, Read more…
Effective planning cannot happen without the commitment of leadership, staff, and board. Be critical. Be pragmatic, Be realistic, Be optimistic. Long-range development depends on collaboration. No one person can do everything, know everything, and sustain everything needed for success. Regardless of past or current successes, development remains a continuous process Read more…
Supportive culture of collaboration among leadership, staff, board, stakeholders Solid planning process guided / facilitated by a neutral entity, guided by leadership + board, informed by staff, enhanced by stakeholders invested in organization’s success Agreement on goals, targets, priorities, processes Alignment with other organization goals and processes Information Pipelines for Read more…
“Today’s world demands that we get good, quickly, at sustained collaboration. We cannot afford to rely on any one group of organizations or coalition of interests to bring about the right decisions and outcomes. We have to be both pragmatic and radical; working with what is there, as well as Read more…