by Eddie Thompson | Aug 26, 2019 | Development Management, Donor Communications
Over the last few months (March & April) I posted a couple of articles on Jim Collins’ follow-up supplement to his best-seller—the 35-page booklet entitled Good to Great and the Social Sectors. In those previous posts (GETTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE ON THE BUS and...
by Eddie Thompson | Jul 29, 2019 | Development Management, Donor Communications
My previous post, “Weathering the Storms,” covered practice-management strategies to employ during good times that tend to harden nonprofits against three types of hard times: 1) economic recessions that universally impact all donors and their giving capacities; 2)...
by Eddie Thompson | Jun 3, 2019 | Development Management
Hard times at nonprofit institutions generally come in three forms: 1) Economic recessions universally impact all donors and their giving capacity, as well as their “giving confidence.” In the years between 1854 and 2009, there were 33 economic cycles, averaging...
by Eddie Thompson | Apr 22, 2019 | Development Management
This is the second in a series of several posts on Jim Collins’s booklet entitled, Good to Great and the Social Sectors. In this 35-page supplement to his bestseller, Good to Great, the author identifies and comments on five challenges that are unique to nonprofits...
by Eddie Thompson | Mar 20, 2019 | Development Management
In 2007, six years after publishing Good to Great, Jim Collins wrote a 35-page booklet applying the principles to the nonprofit world—Good to Great for the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer. That follow-up seemed to be inevitable since his own...
