Open Questions: The Ross Collective Blog
Sharing insights and stories on nonprofit strategy, racial equity and leadership
Why Informal Practices Matter So Much More Than You Think
Most of us want to understand how we work together and how we can improve our shared work.
What Formal Practices Can - and Can’t do for Board Meetings
To create inclusive, impactful board meetings, you should include those formal structures such as Meeting Agreements. They set the board’s work in the right direction.
Three steps for inclusive, impactful board meetings
How long DOES it take to design one board meeting?
Six Steps to Recruit Diverse Nonprofit Board Members and Embrace Equity and Inclusion
Have you embarked on these six steps?
A key first step for strategic planning
Notice and acknowledge the best work you are already doing and figure out how to do more of that.
Nonprofit Strategic Plans - Five Examples Plus Free Template
What does a strategic plan include? The Ross Collective led strategic plans for the organizations below; click on each link to see the strategic plan.
This post shares the vision, mission, strategies and goals for nonprofit strategic planning clients.
5 Steps to Planning for 2023
Planning helps us think about where we want to go…and the steps to get there.
11 Reasons Why You Need an Effective Retreat Facilitator
When people ask me the value of hiring a retreat facilitator, I think back to Mark…
14 Resources to Achieve Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards
We keep learning from each other and helping each other make #GoodTrouble and do better work.
Leadership is naming the hard stuff - and illuminating a path forward
Leadership is naming the hard stuff and illuminating a path forward
The surprising — and emotional — process of getting to the why of strategic planning
So much of the work of The Ross Collective is supporting organizations to find a path forward.
Three important lessons from a mentor who is no longer with us
Toni Littlestone was a Bay Area career coach who supported thousands of people over the years.
How a surprising royal lesson about stories and systems can help us make change
If you are a leader making change, you should also be thinking about how to make connections between individual stories and larger systems, and what you and your organization are seeking to shift.
Building Inclusive Nonprofit Boards | How to Recruit Diverse Board Members for Your Nonprofit
As humans, we are wired for comparison…and also collaboration.
Three tips for doing hard things – even when we feel like giving up
The Ross Collective creates spaces that support leaders to do things that go beyond their comfort zone.
How organizational values can intensify and improve fundraising and strategy
Conversations about organizational values matter because they give staff and board members the opportunity to talk about some of the questions that are most critical to the organization’s work.
How small experiments move us from grief to a joyful path forward
Small experiments create little successes that we can build on.
Start strategic planning through resource allocation
The first step to strategic planning is assessing your time, money and questions!
