Open Questions: The Ross Collective Blog
Sharing insights and stories on nonprofit strategy, racial equity and leadership
Our best emerging insights from celebrating 100 newsletters
Our voices and our perspectives matter
How moving from competition to collaboration deliciously expands the pie
The importance of discovering and living our collaborative advantage
Action Planning: How to accomplish the goals in your strategic plan
Making it through the final mile of planning.
In our most challenging moments, can we find the path to empathy and peace?
Finding our way through grief and trauma for a different path forward.
Four Insights and Five Key Steps for More Equitable Nonprofit Governance
Those of us who work closely with nonprofit boards or serve on boards know that a high percentage of boards are not working. And the challenges in terms of the stresses that boards are experiencing (racial injustice, inequities, workplace burnout, uncertainty in the larger economic environment) have increased over the past few years.
How planning gets everyone on the same page and builds commitment
Moving from vision to strategies and goals
Strategic Planning Kickoff
How to set up your strategic planning process so that it is ready to blast off towards the stars…
How long does it take to create a strategic plan?
A good strategic plan needs time to ripen.
The first step to creating an impactful, effective strategic plan
Get the right people at the table - or in the circle.
Why We Need to Listen When People Say They Don’t Feel That They Belong
We create belonging when we understand the obstacles or barriers to belonging.
A blessing for the world on my birthday
Blowing out the candles with the wish that we each thrive.
The Honest Advice about Change I Wish I Didn’t Have to Give Last Week
People have to want change in order to move towards it.
Four Steps to Find a Sustainable Financial Path
How to go forward when needs outpace funding
Why Remarkable Boards Focus on Equity and Justice
How do we build a world in which all people can thrive?
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?