Editor’s Note: Veronica Taylor is a consultant specializing in disaster preparedness, response and recovery. She previously worked with The Patterson Foundation to help deepen its understanding of the disaster space. As a guest blogger, she will cover issues relevant to … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Veronica Taylor is a consultant specializing in disaster preparedness, response and recovery. She previously worked with The Patterson Foundation to help deepen its understanding of the disaster space. As a guest blogger, she will cover issues relevant … Continue reading
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes In my role with The Patterson Foundation, I give presentations about collaboration opportunities to various civic, nonprofit and business … Continue reading
Writing a weekly blog has its ups and downs. The downs include at times struggling to find inspiring content and dealing with the sometimes-empty comment areas. Sitting at my desk mulling over what to write about this week, I decided … Continue reading
Each one of us has 86,400 seconds per day to live, work, love, play and/or fritter away.Indeed time is the nonrenewable resource. Threaded through the last weeks, I have reached out to colleagues in the foundation sector to be sure … Continue reading
I am preparing to attend the COF annual conference in Los Angeles where Debra Jacobs, President and CEO of The Patterson Foundation, is participating on a round table titled, “Philanthropy and the Digital Public Dialogue: Challenges and New Opportunities.” The … Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it takes to create an environment where nonprofits are hungry to learn about how collaboration models can move the effective/efficient needle. This led to research, reading and a little inspiration to kick me into … Continue reading
I’ve lived in many places throughout my life – from Johannesburg to New York City to smaller towns in Vermont – all of these communities have unique identities but none as welcoming or as impressively generous as I’ve experienced in Sarasota. The … Continue reading
I had an opportunity to attend the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Annual Conference (#2012geo) with our Financial Thrivability Partner Rob Lane of Kerkering Barberio recently in Seattle. The focus of this conference was funders, and how the organizations with the money can be more effective working … Continue reading
Don’t get me wrong. I think competition and its cousin, competitive advantage, are good things when they are rightly understood and used. So, if I think competition is good, why does this blog title suggest otherwise? Over the past three weeks, The … Continue reading