Tag Archives: David Grant
Board Leadership: Relationships Among the Parts
June 13, 2017Faithful readers of the Dodge Blog know that I have repeatedly urged practitioners in the social sector to “plan backwards” from a shared vision of success, using qualitative assessment rubrics as a tool. If you make time for the process … Continue reading
Board Leadership: Welcoming the “Groan Zone”
June 1, 2015I was back in Morristown and Monroe Township last week to facilitate the last workshops of Dodge’s Board Leadership Training Series: Turning Learning Into Action. That’s harder than it sounds, because bringing any learning back to any organization raises the possibility … Continue reading
Join Us at David Grant’s Book Signing
May 5, 2015Please join us for a reception and book-signing event on Tuesday, May 12 at the South Orange Performing Arts Center in honor of the release of The Social Profit Handbook: The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven … Continue reading
Board Leadership: Measuring Social Profit
November 5, 2014We kicked off another year of the Dodge Board Leadership series last week with a workshop on assessment. I was struck, as always, by the challenge of nonprofit accountability in the age of “outcomes measurement.” Everybody wants numbers, but the … Continue reading
Technical Assistance: What’s on Your Leadership Bookshelf?
June 4, 2014I have been thinking about adult learning — and its workplace extension, organizational learning. What’s the best way to promote them in an age, and in a region, where everyone is so busy all the time? One way is to … Continue reading
You’ve Always Had the Power…
November 6, 2013Teaching something does not necessarily mean it will be learned. It matters a lot what is already in potential learners’ heads (prior knowledge, understandings, misunderstandings, experiences, assumptions, beliefs). And just as importantly it matters why they think they are there … Continue reading
Organizational Poetry
June 10, 2013Dodge Poetry Program directors over the years have spoken and written about a quality of poetry that separates it from the other arts – an extraordinary power of compression. Single words or lines or images or phrases in poems can … Continue reading
Goodbye and Hello
June 16, 2010Photo by Kevin Coughlin To our all grantees, friends and colleagues who are experiencing this leadership transition with us, we share both a farewell message from outgoing President and CEO David Grant as well as a welcoming message from Dodge’s … Continue reading
Assessment 2.0: Dodge’s New Online Workshop
April 30, 2009Wendy Liscow, Program Officer Imagine we are in a classroom together. I am the teacher and I ask you to please raise your hand if you can explain what I mean by the following statement: “The notes were sour because … Continue reading
“People We Love”
January 28, 2009For the record, David is far too modest to want this “People We Love” article by Peggy McGlone from Inside Jersey posted to the Dodge Blog. But we couldn’t resist. Photo: Noah K. Murray/The Star-Ledger