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Why systems are key to nonprofit succession planning—and your vacation!

By Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action What is the most important element of your nonprofit succession plan? Having good systems in place. Yup, that's it. You can have developed leaders around you, left your board the password list and list of key donors, but without documented systems in place, the organization will flounder [...]

2017-07-25T14:52:45-06:00August 9th, 2016|Blog, Books, Executive Directors|0 Comments

Nonprofit Succession Planning: Three Must-Read Books

The exit of a nonprofit or social enterprise leader—founder or longtime executive director—is a critical turning point for an organization. In our experience, the biggest problems that occur when transitions are not successfully managed include: Disruption in, and loss of, funding Key staff leaving Decreased programming in the year following the transition Arguments and confusion about the future direction of the organization You can mitigate these problems with careful succession planning.

2017-07-25T15:22:55-06:00August 3rd, 2016|Blog, Books, Executive Directors|0 Comments

Succession Planning Resources: How to Find Your Next Leader

Janine Vanderburg, CEO and President Joining Vision and Action These succession planning resources will help guide the conversation about what traits you want to see in your next leader. Inevitably your nonprofit or social enterprise will have to addresses the critical question: Who is our organization's next leader? Done correctly, with [...]

Pabon-Williams Jobs Law Boosts Construction Trades

Original article from Colorado House Democrats  on July 20 (July 20) – A jobs law sponsored by Reps. Dan Pabon and Angela Williams marked a milestone this morning with the announcement of a $1.1 million grant [written by Joining Vision and Action] to boost enrollment in a training program for the construction trades. The Associated General [...]

2017-03-19T14:37:45-06:00July 28th, 2016|Joining Vision and Action Media|0 Comments

Planning your next nonprofit career move: Tips and three books to read

Are you thinking about leaving? Image via Hippie Bowman  by Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action About a decade ago in the pre-recession years, I was leading a workshop on succession planning for nonprofit sector leaders. After invoking the JVA Vegas [1] ground rule, I asked participants to introduce themselves and why [...]

2017-01-07T18:50:14-07:00July 19th, 2016|Books, Encore careers, Executive Directors|0 Comments

Tear Down This Wall: What are “True” Social Enterprises?

By Rolfe Larson, Joining Vision and Action What constitutes "true" social enterprises? Thousands of nonprofits that use the marketplace to accomplish their social goals call themselves social enterprises (SEs). Thousands of for-profit companies with social goals also use that term. Yet these two groups barely talk with each other. Why is that? Benefit corporations and [...]

2018-02-14T15:13:07-07:00July 12th, 2016|Social Enterprise|0 Comments

The 10 books that should be in every nonprofit executive director’s library

Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action What are the top books for nonprofit executive directors? There are thousands of books out there on all aspects of nonprofit work. Over time, these are the ones we turn to again and again, and recommend to nonprofit executive directors attending JVA’s Executive Director Academy. Are these [...]

Strategic Partnership Development: Applied Best Practices

By Jennifer Wolf, MPH, Joining Vision andAction Director of Business and Partnership Development Why is strategic partnership development so important? Here at Joining Vision and Action, we are firm believers in implementation science, or taking scientific concepts and making them usable. In the nonprofit world, this idea of research and best practices can be applied [...]

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