Comments on: BEST PRACTICES: Habits of High Impact Nonprofits

By: CT Nonprofit Conference Challenges Nonprofits to Imagine & Innovate « Nonprofit Wake Up Call

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:14:53 +0000

[…] Other speakers include Ami Dar, Executive Director of Action Without Borders / Idealist, who will address Hope & Hype on the Web. How your organization can make the most of all the tools we have at our fingertips. I saw Ami Dar speak last year at CT conference and he inspired me to think about how to use more online tools – and as a result, I have been using Google Docs for collaboration. Marshall Howard will discuss how to Build More Capacity With the Power of Collaborative Relationships, which is something that I am a big proponent of. Collaboration is a key habit of a nonprofits’s success. Read about other habits of success for a nonprofit. […]

By: TRENDS: Measuring Program Evaluation « Red Rooster Group’s Blog

TRENDS: Measuring Program Evaluation « Red Rooster Group’s Blog — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:48:01 +0000

[…] For more on impact, see the entry: The Impact of Leverage and Habits of High Impact Nonprofits […]

By: Unsustainable Model for Addressing Hunger Provides Lessons

Unsustainable Model for Addressing Hunger Provides Lessons — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:34:56 +0000

The concept of cultural competency advocacy is addressed tangentially in the post above about hunger in America. One solution to the problem was the need to address U.S. agricultural policy. Here is the relevant excerpt:

“We need to look at how agricultural policy relates to this problem,” said Joel Berg, Executive Director of the NYC Coalition Against Hunger, “If we look at history, we see that America has never had a food production problem (even during the Great Depression). The problem is people don’t have the money to buy the food. We have an over-reliance on subsidizing farmers, which has caused problems with the types of foods we produce, concentrated farming operations, and animal waste. We need to put the small and family farmer back into the process.”

Local programs that are blind to the larger issues will not be sustainable in the long run. Effective nonprofits, such as Share Our Strength are learning how to combine advocacy with their programs to create systemic change.

By: Robert Miss

Robert Miss — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:05:33 +0000

Thank you for reminding me of this Six Best Practices book. I will be using this as Chair of the nonprofit Kids X-Press magazine the only one of its kind entirely written and illustrated by kids for kids, the most exciting literacy program since Sesame Street, now distributed in 5 major cities. However, we are still a small organization with challenges in board development. I will be using this Red Rooster message at our next board meeting.

Robert Miss, Partner, Resource Development Counsel, Advisors
in Philanthropy and Organizational Management