Small to midsize arts and culture nonprofit organizations in Iowa are invited to participate in the Iowa Culture Leadership Cohort. This two-year program will help participants build leadership skills in organization operations, sustainability, and programming through professional development...
Nonprofits leaders face headwinds as inflation squeezes budgets and hiring talented staff remains a vexing challenge. To understand just how CEOs are faring in a post-pandemic world, the Chronicle commissioned a survey and conducted interviews with nonprofit CEOs. More than 60 percent...
For nonprofit and philanthropic leaders, demonstrating impact is foundational. Typically, measuring the success of an organization’s mission-driven work involves program and staff evaluations. But oftentimes the impact of leadership development initiatives is considered separately. The key to...
There is a difference between a full life and an overwhelming one. Life is filled with requests, demands and distractions that take us away from what’s most important and can rob us of peace and joy. We all need time and space to consider how we are investing our time, money and energy. To...
For the 5th year, the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Greater Omaha and the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands have partnered to enhance the leadership and capacity of early-career nonprofit professionals in the Omaha metro community through the Rising Leaders Institute (RLI). The...
The Nonprofit Association of the Midlands is taking applications for the 2024 Nonprofit Executive Institute (NEI). The NEI is an eleven-month leadership program designed to offer nonprofit leaders skills and strategies to enhance organizational sustainability and transform the communities they...
In this 90-minute presentation, attendees will be equipped with an understanding of the historical philosophy of leadership and how it has changed over time to better support employee well-being. They will learn about the value of leading from a place of vulnerability and authenticity along with...
While COVID-19 certainly accelerated the virtual organization trend, there are very good reasons beyond the pandemic for nonprofit organizations to consider it. People are moving to virtual---whether full or quasi--for cost savings, for enhanced staff recruitment and retention, and to embody...
The Leadership Circle for Fundraisers of Color is a weekly peer group meeting of development professionals who identify as People of Color. In an informal, virtual roundtable format, participants will have frank conversations about their lived experiences, and share challenges and strategies for...
For many in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, executive transition has been a largely fixed set of "best practices." Outgoing executives, boards, funders, and consultants often work from a playbook embedded with a host of assumptions: from what executive...
