By Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action For over three years, Sarah Hidey helped JVA clients raise money—through grantwriting and through social enterprise development. Using her MBA and her background in international development, as well as her passion for social enterprise, Sarah helped our clients plan earned income ventures, and developed our initial version [...]
By Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action What are the best social enterprise books to read before you start your social business? As social enterprise becomes more popular, dozens of books are being published every year on the topic ranging from academic to inspirational. And while my library contains them all, here are the [...]
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 [...]
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.
By Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action What is the one thing a social enterprise must never do? Believe that your customers will buy from you simply because of your social mission. It’s a lesson I learned managing my first social enterprise in the early 1980s. Hoping to both employ women and generate revenue [...]
Rachel and Doug By Scot Kersgaard, Joining Vision and Action Coffee has the power to change the world. If you doubt it, all you need to do is talk to Joining Vision and Action and CU Boulder alum Rachel Taber, co-founder of the the social enterprise 1951 Coffee Company, based in [...]
By Janine Vanderburg, CEO, Joining Vision and Action I just returned from the Encore 2016 conference in San Francisco last week. Over 400 people gathered, inspired by a collective vision: that people as they age can experience an “encore” in work, service, learning and leadership – using their talents and experience to better their communities [...]
By: Janine Vanderburg, CEO, Joining Vision and Action What are the must have executive director resources? I’m very excited about our upcoming Executive Director Academy. I personally love spending the week with extraordinary individuals who have both the opportunity and the challenge of leading organizations dedicated to community and social change. One of the biggest [...]
By Janine Vanderburg A short reading list for nonprofit friends and changemakers One of the things I always enjoy over the holidays is a little extra time to spend reading, and to create a list of must-read books for the upcoming year. If you’re putting your nonprofit reading list together, here are some that I’ve [...]
By Scot Kersgaard, JVA Consulting The Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) has announced that its 2015 annual Summit will be held in Denver next September 16-18, 2015. Summit planning committee co-chair Janine Vanderburg, president and CEO of JVA Consulting, and other Colorado SEA members pitched Denver to SEA President and CEO Kevin Lynch while attending the [...]
