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Entries in Flourish (18)

Tuesday
Mar062018

4 factors that fuel revenue growth

Whether your business or nonprofit is crushing it or confused, four practices that are in your control can get you on a path to revenue growth.

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Tuesday
Mar062018

What happens when you get into The Discomfort Zone?

One of the benefits of living in a fast changing culture is that continuous learning and reinvention — or evolution — is more necessary than ever. My best clients are constantly living just outside their comfort zones and readily absorbing and applying new learning. This approach requires a positive mindset and periodic resets to flush out negative thinking and replace worries with wonderful new skills and progress.

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Tuesday
Jan092018

What your organization’s Sustainability Quotient?

Too many nonprofit organizations—large and small—operate on razor thin margins and lack an adequate safety net. If that describes your organization’s fiscal health, follow the lead of my best clients by setting an intention and creating a strategy in 2018 to turn things around. And keep it there. Read more to find out the 3 aspects of sustainability you must constantly balance.

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Monday
Aug072017

Any hidden gems lying around?

What assets do you have lying around that could be dusted off, polished up, and put to good use in a generative, productive way?

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Monday
Apr032017

Nonprofit Earned Income: Your Questions Answered

Hundreds of nonprofit leaders across the country shared important questions they had about earned revenue and how this source could be of benefit to their organizations, supplementing less reliable philanthropic revenue. During a webinar on earned revenue I presented last week, I answered many of these questions, but there were still lots of good ones that remained unanswered. This post, along with a Guide to Earned Income I compiled, attempts to answer more.

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