Susan Detwiler
Consultant, facilitator, and strategic planning guide for nonprofits; believer in the power of vision to create the future we want to live in. sdetwiler@detwiler.com
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- ““The ultimate goal is that the people inside of the building reflect the people outside of the building.””
- “walking the thin line between general policy support and specific advocacy”
- “such a commitment to serve a specific individual cannot legally be made by a nonprofit in return for a donation.”
- “agreed-upon behaviors allow the team to increase its collective performance through healthy debate and clarity of purpose and roles.”
- “”Is vision a noun or a verb to you?””
- “free admission has little to no correlation with how well museums – including the Met – welcome or satisfy income-qualified audiences”
- “But if we allowed neuroscientists to run the workplace today, what would it look like? Here are a few ideas based on the research that was shared:”
- “perception of existential competitive threats”
- “To safeguard your company at the level of purpose, you must make strategy the servant rather than the master. Strategies are time-bound and target specific results. Your purpose, in contrast, is what …
- “Nonprofit leaders have to remember that our board members are the good guys.”
- “Cultural organizations are doing technology wrong.”
- “consider what Wallace freely gives away by sharing its extensive and expensive studies”
- “traditional visitors are exiting the US market at a faster rate than they are being replaced”
- “New research shows that most nonprofits fall short in important areas of performance. But stakeholders who operate at a systems level can do a lot to help solve this problem.”
- “you have to spend at least as much time on explaining the logic behind the choices.””
- “The nonprofit of the future is defined by shared administrative, operating, and fundraising support that allows each organization significant time and resources to focus on individualized programmati …
- “How can we inspire, equip, and connect people to make the change we hope to see in the world?”
- “admission price is not a primary barrier to visitation to cultural organizations”
- “the best way to truly win the hearts and minds of people, and generate huge returns for your organization and its stakeholders, is by leading with civility.”
- “According to the Global Impact Investing Network, zero percent of impact investment is in the arts and culture sector.”
