Tag Archives: Dodge Foundation Technical Assistance
Kicking off the new year of board leadership learning
November 6, 2018For those of us involved with the Dodge Foundation Board Leadership Series, each New Year actually begins in the fall. We leave the champagne and hugging for January, but we do a pretty good job in October of looking ahead with a sense of hope and new possibilities. Our New … Continue reading
Board Leadership: When Looking at Financials, Don’t Do What Seems Most Obvious
March 21, 2017In the nonprofit sector, we’ve gotten used to complexity when it comes to assessing the performance of our organizations. An organization’s “effectiveness” can be a complex combination of benefits to constituents, social and political impact, cost efficiency, and even environmental … Continue reading
Technical Assistance: Three Common Operating Reserve Myths
April 5, 2016How LUNA Could be the Key to Long-Term Sustainability A recent study of the financial health of New York City nonprofits uncovered some disturbing trends: 10 percent are insolvent and 40 percent exist with virtually zero cash reserves. For nonprofit … Continue reading
Where Does an 800-pound Gorilla Walk?
February 2, 2016Anywhere It Wants To. Quick, before you do anything else: watch this 90-second video and follow the instructions (Don’t scroll down!): OK…so, did you see a gorilla? It turns out that half of the people who watch that video don’t … Continue reading
Announcing Dodge’s Board Leadership Training Series
September 3, 2014The Dodge Foundation is excited to launch the 15th year of our Technical Assistance initiative with the announcement of the fall schedule for our Board Leadership Training Series, a free workshop series open to Dodge grantees. The Board Leadership series, … Continue reading
Guest Series: Developing Your Board Leadership
April 19, 2010If you’ve been following along the last several Mondays, you know that we’ve been hearing from grantees who have recently taken part in our Board Leadership Training Series workshops and are now telling their stories about how they are applying … Continue reading