With tighter funding, increasing costs and multiple providers of adjacent or similar services, it can be hard for nonprofits or all sizes to make the numbers work as a stand alone. Our latest blog post highlights partnership and collaboration options to consider in order to sustain your nonprofit mission.
Author Archives: David Harris
In this podcast, David Harris sits down with “Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership” host Patton McDowell, to explore strategies for increasing nonprofit resilience in the face of escalating challenges and uncertainly. You will also find many other excellent podcasts on nonprofit leadership in Patton’s library.
This excellent article titled Why Your Nonprofit Should Hire an Interim Leader After an Executive Director Departs was just published in NonprofitPro. While the article does not directly reference IES, both of the interim placements mentioned were made and supported by Interim Executive Solutions and reflect the caliber of engagement and level of impact that […]
On May 21st NYCON, the New York Council of Nonprofits, ran a powerful workshop for nonprofit leaders in the state focused on opportunities for collaboration and building collective voice and impact. The latest blog post from Rethinking Nonprofits explores some of the questions nonprofits should be regularly asking themselves in order to assess their sustainability […]
This recently published article in Blue Avocado highlights circumstances where interim leadership — either provided by a professional interim leader, or sometimes a board or staff member with capacity — can allow the board of a nonprofit to obtain an objective assessment of the structures in place for achieving the organization’s mission and insight into […]
Robust Funding is the lifeblood of resilient, thriving non-profits. Our latest blog post shares strategies successful non-profits employ to achieve their funding needs.
As a non-profit board member or staff leader, what can you do to enable your organization to consistently achieve its mission when faced with inevitable headwinds and change? Some non-profits (although too few) invest time in the important work of leadership succession planning, both for the board and staff. However, to be responsive to changing needs and […]
Resilience: For non-profits (or any organization for that matter) to have sustained impact and thrive, they must be resilient to the inevitable changes in social needs, funding priorities, political sentiments, workforce dynamics, and competition. This blog post articulates some key pillars to non-profit resilience. Your feedback and comments are very welcome. https://open.substack.com/pub/npinterim/p/rn4-resilience-a-foundation-for-impact?
As we highlighted in our first blog post, to be most effective, non-profit boards and senior staff must be partners in the work. For this partnership to succeed, there must be open, trust-based communications. While board members are responsible for financial oversight and ensuring that the organization stays true to its mission, they are also partners […]
Do any of the following apply to a nonprofit you are associated with? Valued employees are finding other jobs or reaching out to Board members with concerns Some long time funders are not renewing their support The cash flow forecast shows signs of trouble (or you are not even getting a cash flow forecast) Your […]
We are thrilled to announce that Barbra Kavanaugh has joined our Partnership. Barbra has many years of interim leadership experience following a career in law and nonprofit management, and co-Founded and directed the DC-based Interim Executive Network. Now based in Florida, as an IES Partner Barbra will be integrally involved in ensuring our client engagements […]