Just hours before the federal government shut down, I was facilitating a strategic planning retreat with a client board. The shutdown was on people’s minds, but what struck me was the perspective in the room: the political landscape will always be shifting. For this group, they framed their responsibility as: moving forward by leaning into […]

Photo by Randy Tarampi on Unsplash When I sat down to write this morning, the word that came to mind was: centering. Immediately, I was anything but centered. My mind split in two directions—do I write about centering from the emotional intelligence perspective, or about centering the intangible assets of an organization? Maybe that confusion […]

On February 28, 2017, PayPal, Inc. and PayPal Giving Fund were named as defendants in a class action lawsuit. The main headline the lawsuit generated is that donors who made gifts to charities and nonprofits through the PayPal Giving Fund (PPGF) had their gifts re-directed to other organizations without their consent. The complaint contains much […]