Volunteers are people and people are complicated.

Approaching situations with curiosity disrupts our tendency to react and allows us to gather the necessary information to respond effectively.

Succession planning is not just a task to be checked off a list.

Do you feel like donors don’t understand what it really takes to run your organization and the systems you’re trying to navigate?

You’re not alone.

The pandemic helped to accelerate the pace of change in Canadian workplaces. This includes gig workers who have increasingly become a part of the language of work.

Now is the time for the creative sectors across Canada to become more inclusive and representative of its vast diversity.

The biggest shift is not financial or structural, but mental, specifically around your relationship with how staff is entitled to their income.

Limited funding combined with seemingly unlimited needs from the populations we serve, create an environment where the risk of burnout in nonprofits is disproportionally high.

There is good news amidst this tension: we have a wealth of data at our disposal (really!), which can help us redefine our impacts and re-educate our funders and stakeholders.

The pandemic is revealing what companies and organizations truly value, and employees are learning how much (and if) they are valued by their employers.

Creating strong, transparent, beneficial stakeholder relationships is critical to non-profits: business leaders could learn a great deal here from our sector.

The typical relationship in which business leaders are positioned to teach non-profit leaders about the various aspects of running an organization misses a golden opportunity. Great non-profit leaders are experts at managing budgets, collaboration, innovation, engagement, and organizational culture. If business leaders explored the opportunity and were open to learning from the non-profit sector, it could affect a powerful impact on their organization.

It’s true that many non-profit leaders have learned a great deal from the business community. But it is also true that business leaders could learn a great deal from non-profits. Sadly, this opportunity is rarely explored.

Joining a board is not about building your resume. It’s about the mission first. Always.

We’re not sharing a list of self-care tips in this blog. This is not something you can “hack".

I wanted you to be the first to know some incredibly exciting news.

There must be mutual learning and respectful conversations, otherwise, we risk organizations stretching their missions which costs everyone more in the end.

How do we know when it’s time to go? It is a very personal decision that requires self reflection and honest conversations to uncover the best path forward for our organizations and ourselves.

I recently asked this question on LinkedIn and got some AMAZING responses.

Something I've really begun to digest is, life isn't linear and work isn't life.