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Capacity Building / Leadership / Strategy

Cynthia Kersey – Unstoppable Foundation Says, “Believe”

Cynthia Kersey says it’s that time of year again when many children are preparing for a new school year, armed with the essentials — notepads, pencils and backpacks. And in the Unstoppable community of Chepkebit, the children are heading to school as well, but with essentials of a whole other level — clean water, healthy food, healthcare and bright new classrooms. We checked in on the students on our recent Founder & Friends trip. Continue reading →

September 9, 2019 0 Comments
Events / Leadership

World Pediatric Project Is FOX NEWS Power Player of the Week

World Pediatric Project was featured by veteran newscaster Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday’s Power Player of The Week. Wallace’s fast-paced interview celebrated the significant impact World Pediatric Project has in medically under-sourced countries around the world. Susan Rickman, World Pediatric Project CEO, shared, “Imagine your child needing heart surgery, brain surgery, or another form of highly complex procedure WITH NO ACCESS to a skilled surgery team, technology, equipment, or post-operative care needed to support their healing? WPP bridges these gaps ensuring families receive the medical care they so desperately need.”

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April 15, 2019 0 Comments
Capacity Building / Leadership / Strategy

Major Gifts Ramp-Up Million Dollar Fundraiser: Hall Powell

Major Gifts Ramp-Up Million Dollar Fundraiser: Hall Powell – Hall has more than 34 years of fundraising experience, including 19 as a fundraising consultant. He has provided campaign and development counsel to a wide variety of institutions throughout the country, with special emphasis in the healthcare field. Prior to joining Development Systems International and PAX Global over a decade ago, Hall was senior consultant with the fundraising consulting firm Alexander Hass of Atlanta, Georgia. Previously, Hall served as the Executive Vice President of the Memorial Health Foundation, Inc. in Savannah, Georgia, and the founding Executive Director of the New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation, Inc., in Wilmington, North Carolina. Continue reading →

November 25, 2018 0 Comments
Ideas / Leadership / Strategy

Stop Calling Nonprofits Nonprofit – John Horak – The TANGO Alliance

John Horak TANGO Alliance
Stop Calling Nonprofits Nonprofit – John Horak – The TANGO Alliance

John Horak, The TANGO Alliance – Those of us who work in the “nonprofit” sector need to stop using the term “nonprofit.” This may sound strange coming from someone who has made a living working for nonprofit organizations and who still uses the term regularly. Nevertheless, bear with me as I explain my reasoning. First, the term is an accident of legal history. At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries the states started to enact general corporate law codes which allowed anyone to create a new corporation simply by filing paperwork with the office of the Secretary of State. Continue reading →

October 15, 2018 0 Comments
Capacity Building / Leadership

Meet Aimee Vance – America’s Super Consultant – Major Gifts Ramp-Up Expert

Aimee Vance Major Gifts Ramp-Up
Meet Aimee Vance – America’s Super Consultant – Major Gifts Ramp-Up Expert

Aimee Vance, has worked in the charitable sector for thirty years. Her consulting success was memorialized in the industry bestselling book RE-IMAGINING PHILANTHROPY where she was named AMERICA’S SUPER CONSULTANT. She holds the Certified Nonprofit Consultant (CNC) credential issued by the National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives and Continue reading →

August 6, 2018 0 Comments
Capacity Building / Ideas / Leadership

Jimmy LaRose says, “Money Is Oxygen”

Jimmy LaRose Money Is Oxygen

Jimmy LaRose (pictured above) is causing controversy throughout the charitable sector with his message “Money Is Oxygen.” LaRose, celebrating his thirtieth year of service, is convinced, now more than ever, that prioritizing revenue generation is the key to nonprofit (and ministry) success. Last week I interviewed Jimmy in his home in Lexington, SC to see what the fuss was all about. The “back and forth” with this animated fifty-year old was both enlightening and not for the faint-of-heart. Here’s what we discussed: Continue reading →

July 4, 2018 0 Comments
Capacity Building / Leadership

Susan Packard Orr Shifts Focus After Decades at Helm of Family Foundation

Susan Packard Orr
Susan Packard Orr Shifts Focus After Decades at Helm of Family Foundation

Considered an icon in the philanthropy world, Susan Packard Orr frequently is the person nonprofits look to for inspiration and advice. For more than three decades, the Stanford resident has provided nonprofits around the world with support services and software she developed for the management of fundraising and grant-making activities when few others served that niche.

She’s probably better known, however, for steering her family’s nonprofit organization, The David & Lucile Packard Foundation, for the past 22 years. She stepped into the role of chairwoman overseeing the mission and strategic direction of the Foundation – in 1996 after the death of her father, David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett­-Packard Company. With the world watching, she transitioned the Los Altos nonprofit into one of the most influential and respected family foundations in the nation. Under her tenure, the foundation expanded its grant giving globally while tackling some of the world’s biggest issues.

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May 28, 2018 0 Comments
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