Nutshell: Track five "indicators" to measure the health of your small nonprofit in 2018: Board participation Client referrals Donation/volunteer follow-up turnaround time Donor/volunteer crossover engagement P/L report According to Google, the #1 New Year resolution for Americans is to "get healthy." In my last post, I shared that I chose HEALTH as my theme for 2018. That theme extends to Voices for Earth Justice, the small nonprofit I started leading last September. How do w

You know, it seems you can't live with New Year resolutions and you can't live without them. On one hand, you know the importance of goals and habits to accomplishing anything worthwhile. On the other hand, you know that you'll end up abandoning your New Year resolutions by around January 3. So why bother? If you're an achiever (Type A) personality (like me), you're in double trouble. For a few years in my 20s, I recall making pages--pages!--of resolutions each December. You