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How to Succeed as Gig or Remote Worker

As a consultant/contractor for organizations, I’ve created a platform for dedicating my skills to organizations who need to get their...

Something Fun

Because we all need an acknowledgement of getting it right... https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/freelance-achievement-stickers

Turning Back to the Light

This deep dark time of the year brings inner reflection and time to gather with friends and family. This older (but quite popular!)...

The Year-End Push

In the perfect world, all of us in fundraising would have prepared the year-end plan anytime between July and September. For many...

Relationships as Pyramid

As I prepared for a training workshop this month, I came across a simple yet very effective framework for considering how organizations...

Thoughts on Work and Sustaining the Long Haul

I worked way too much this summer and didn’t take the time to play enough. There are reasons for that and I’ll own it, but here we are in...

The Importance of a Site Visit

Ahh… the memories of August site visits. Way back when I worked for the Alaska Conservation Foundation, I was the person who managed...

Charting your Organizational Wellness

This month, I worked with a client to embark on an organizational assessment project.To start off the process, i introduced the...

The Importance of Training (and how you can join me in learning)

Heather Yandow, a nonprofit consultant based in North Carolina, shared a blog post about dedicating time for training and professional...

How Behavioral Economics Can Build a Cash Reserve

When I was in business school, one of my professors mentioned a case when an Executive Director that she knew had to raid her retirement...