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Sarah Tober
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Dec 29, 2022

12. Visionary Leadership

concept → plan → buy in → implementation The third cornerstone in my leadership project focused on the mission. A mission can be as formal as a statement or a manifesto, or it can be a guiding set of beliefs. Even leaders whose mission was to make it to the top were on a mission. Leadership without mission…

Leadership

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12. Visionary Leadership
12. Visionary Leadership
Leadership

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Dec 14, 2022

11. Scalability

Sustainable growth for programs, initiatives, and organizations If you have ever experienced drowning you know that in that moment one cannot decipher between a life raft and a rock. When leading a nonprofit without a rapid growth plan, you can find yourself in that same moment in the deep end…

Scalability

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11. Scalability
11. Scalability
Scalability

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Dec 5, 2022

10. Ambassador Executive Director

Setting the culture while saving the world When studying leadership in Dr. Burrows’ Leading People and Organizations class, I was pushed to further define what makes an effective leader by interviewing 10 leaders and writing an extensive paper on my learnings. There were three working theories that came out of…

Nonprofit Management

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10. Ambassador Executive Director
10. Ambassador Executive Director
Nonprofit Management

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Sep 22, 2022

9. The Whistleblower’s Dilemma

Being brave in the face of corruption I decided to write the 12 lessons I learned in nonprofit leadership as a way to share my experience and hopefully help out others. The act has kept me motivated to write, a lifelong goal of mine and the therapeutic aspects can’t be…

Nonprofit Management

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9. The Whistleblower’s Dilemma
9. The Whistleblower’s Dilemma
Nonprofit Management

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Sep 7, 2022

8. Over Board

How a couple of toxic board members can take down the ship When I started out as an executive director of a statewide nonprofit, I had no idea what a functional board composition should look like or where to start on that process. Little did I know that your board…

Nonprofit Management

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8. Over Board
8. Over Board
Nonprofit Management

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Aug 5, 2022

7. The Membership Program

A nonprofit’s version of a corporate subscription service In the day and age of subscription-based services and products, a nonprofit membership becomes an easy addition to the consumers’ ongoing list of automatic deductions now being coined as “microtransactions.” A good example of these microtransactions is BMW. BMW vehicles include heated…

Membership

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7. The Membership Program
7. The Membership Program
Membership

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Jun 30, 2022

6. Fundraising and Gardening

Tips to grow your nonprofit’s greens I love gardening. Fundraising, not so much. However, in the nonprofit world it is a necessary activity. What a concept, raise money (hard work) to support staff salary in order to be able to get the meaningful mission done (the real work). …

Fundraising

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6. Fundraising and Gardening
6. Fundraising and Gardening
Fundraising

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Jun 28, 2022

La Plata Impact Fund driven by local businesses

Republished from the Durango Herald When local business owner Jonny Radding approached Local First Foundation about launching the La Plata Impact Fund, he had just finished reading the book “Let My People Go Surfing,” written by the founder and owner of Patagonia. In the book, Yvon Chouinard detailed an alliance…

Localfirst

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La Plata Impact Fund driven by local businesses
La Plata Impact Fund driven by local businesses
Localfirst

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May 6, 2022

5. Advocacy

The fine balancing act of mission driven lobbying You don’t have to be a registered lobbyist to impact public policy making at the city, county, state, or national level. I have never been a registered lobbyist. Never given big checks to political leaders or led PACs (Political Action Committee). Never…

Advocacy

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5. Advocacy
5. Advocacy
Advocacy

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Apr 19, 2022

A healthy, wealthy and wise community

Republished from the Durango Herald In the La Plata County Community Needs Assessment report focused on access to health care (completed in June 2019), 85% of respondents were dissatisfied to extremely dissatisfied with health care in the county. Today, the average county resident can see up to a 35% reduction…

Circulareconomy

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A healthy, wealthy and wise community
A healthy, wealthy and wise community
Circulareconomy

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