It was a beautiful fall day when more than 30 organizations came together to share their thoughts on what was happening in Lake and Geauga counties. There were similarities between what we heard in some of our Cuyahoga County conversations but also subtle...

Over the past few months, the community responsive team has held another series of dialogues with nonprofit agencies in branches of the Cleveland library system. We have had the privilege of meeting with over 130 individuals representing the many sectors of...

Earlier in my career, I was part of a rather large agency that merged with another to create a new entity.  The rationale for the merger was that:  both organizations had similar missions, i.e. programs serving children and families, one entity would be...

What is Twitter? …and how does it relate to the nonprofit/philanthropic community? This week I’m posting some basics about Twitter, what it is and how I am using it. Next week I’ll post information about how I see Twitter benefiting the...

We don’t think this blog will become simply another place for reposting – but the implications of this are too important not to share. Hopefully old news for Cleveland-area nonprofits, but just in case… From GuideStar last week: “Half a million...

Read an interesting piece last night on community engagement from Chris Corrigan, Canadian facilitator and blogger who moves within the space between. He mentions several principles such as “find a centre, find something that you can continually come back...