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The Power of Appreciated Assets – Empowering Your Donors
Why didn’t anyone tell me? Ten years as a nonprofit executive, and I never understood the power of appreciated-asset...
CESA Schools as Innovation Incubators
The teacher shortage was on my mind more than normal coming out of the COVID pandemic. Front and center with the Vail...
Helping Families Navigate Parenting in a World Gone Mad
The Proverb says, “Point your kids in the right direction, when they’re old they won’t be lost (MSG).” I...
A Rhythm of Reflection and Celebration
Here in the United States, we’re feeling the warmer temperatures of May, and they hint at summer break. These weeks...
A SWOT Analysis for Healthy Enrollment
If you’ve been in school world long enough, you’ve likely sat around a conference room table and contributed to a...
Godly Laments During the Winter Doldrums
We can all feel it. When this time of year rolls around, we’ve passed the exciting and busy holiday season and...
Is your school measuring the mission?
In 1869, a Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher inadvertently discovered a microscopic substance that we now know as...
Thoughts about Staying On-Mission
About six years ago, I found myself speaking to a group of board members and seated heads of school at a conference in...
What Kind of Tired Are You?
There is a common axiom, “You cannot give what you do not have.” And, if we’re honest, most of us these days...
Have our Boys been Forgotten?
In the new post-pandemic world, nothing looks quite the same. Arguably, the greatest shift in our culture is our common...