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I love talking to my friend, Bernice Sanders Smoot. She is the founder and principal of a firm called Saint Wall Street, LLC that helps nonprofits capture and articulate their value. The first time I heard her speak, I had one of those “I really need to meet her” moments.
Despite the nonprofit sector’s complexity and diversity, there are a fair number of common practices or conventional wisdom. One practice is when a founding director announces their intention to retire or otherwise leave the organization, it is best to make a clean break – thorough and swift.
Many, many, many years ago while searching for an internship during my last semester in graduate school, my faculty advisor offered some cautionary words about a placement I was seriously considering.
A few years ago I had the good fortune of attending Harvard Business School’s Governing for Nonprofit Excellence program. The experience was transformative (turns out it’s Harvard for a reason), and gave me membership to a group populated with other grateful Triangle leaders sent to Harvard by local philanthropist Chuck Re Corr.
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