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Board Leadership
Board Leadership Must Lead Your Financial Turnaround How to Find, Enlist and Motivate Leadership Recently I attended a memorial service for a local banker who was a pillar of Central Florida. He started out as a bank teller and rose to become CEO. The late Buell Duncan of SunTrust was a real gentleman and chief [...]
My Word: Work together, don’t multiply
Orlando Sentinel My Word: Work together, don’t multiply By James A. Donovan December 22, 2009 Local nonprofit organizations have had extensive news coverage this year — the termination of a homeless drop-incenter initiative by downtown churches, the closing of the Destiny Foundation, the hefty salary for the chief executive officer of Florida’s Blood Centers, record [...]
Income from Investments, Is it time for a Review?
Nonprofit executives come to us because they need assistance in raising major gifts. We hear about the need for cash, either to sustain an existing program, provide for an unplanned need, begin a new program or to build a new facility. Rather than rush into a discussion of strategies for obtaining major gifts, we encourage the prospective client to obtain an [...]
