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I Failed as a Nonprofit Board Member

April 6, 2017 by Debby Warren 1 Comment

After decades of serving, supporting and staffing non-profit boards, I remain stumped about how to make them work well over time. To grossly summarize –most Executive Directors think boards are a bother, most board members don’t feel valued and most meetings are either boring or painfully stressful. Most boards do a lousy job supervising their […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Board of Directors, Funding, Management, YWCA

Transformation? What? Now?

March 2, 2017 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

I’ve spent the last few weeks focused on ‘transformation’: sitting in on a national workshop called Advanced Leadership for Organizational Transformation and joining an international live webinar training for Mindfulness at Work: Transforming Stress into Well Being. The first was useful; the second was amazing. But the big question for me throughout was – what’s […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Mindfulness at Work, Organizational Sustainability, Organizational Transformation, Strategic Planning

Hunker down or charge into battle?

January 30, 2017 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

I had a call today with a colleague in Washington, DC whose organization does both inside-the-beltline high impact defense and state/local slow-change work. From my distance, it’s easy to say that both efforts are critical in these frightening, uncertain times. From her vantage point, however, the two lines of work don’t sit so comfortably together. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Advocacy, Election, Organizational Sustainability

Moving Forward: Lessons from Kung Fu

December 20, 2016 by Debby Warren 1 Comment

Maybe we’ve moved beyond the first step of the grieving process and we’re looking for a few anchors to steady our organizations and ourselves as we confront this post-election ‘reality’. I stumbled on this 2012 article about the relevance of the teachings of Chinese martial arts — and these 4 concepts: Assume a posture of […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Election, Kung Fu

Here’s how I’m surviving the days after the election

November 14, 2016 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

I have a habit, sometimes obnoxious, of always looking for the bright side. Today, a few days after the election that will create President Trump, I’ve been talking with colleagues about any opportunities this tsunami presents for non profit organizations, particularly those in the economic and social justice arena, and their supporters. Here’s what I’m […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Election, President Trump, Social Justice

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