Open Questions: The Ross Collective Blog
Sharing insights and stories on nonprofit strategy, racial equity and leadership
Nine questions to assess and sustain healthy nonprofit leadership
How are you doing in each of these areas?
How finding our interconnectedness creates healthy leadership for all
What changes do we need to make to think bigger?
How embracing transparency is scary, and essential, for healthy organizational leadership
Our series on healthy leadership continues with this post from Corey Newhouse and Jessica Manta-Meyer on steps that Public Profit, a consulting firm, has taken to become a healthier, more transparent organization.
Three Critical Practices For Healthy Organizational Leadership
Why is one group of leaders able to come together and build something that is respectful and caring and generative for themselves and their community – even synergistic?
Healthy Leaders Have Grounding Practices: I Am No Different; Here Are Mine
Yanira Guzman is the founder of The Career Gem, a full-service career coaching business. She has over 15 years guiding others to achieve their career aspirations. As a first-generation college graduate, Yanira helps ambitious Latinas position themselves for their next career role, resulting in increased income that benefits themselves, their families, and their communities.
The Unique Challenges Faced by Women of Color in Nonprofit Leadership
Ten practices to support healthy individual leadership
For resilient leadership right now, ask these three important questions
To be alive right now is to hold grief and love
Our best emerging insights from celebrating 100 newsletters
Our voices and our perspectives matter
In our most challenging moments, can we find the path to empathy and peace?
Finding our way through grief and trauma for a different path forward.
The first step to creating an impactful, effective strategic plan
Get the right people at the table - or in the circle.
A blessing for the world on my birthday
Blowing out the candles with the wish that we each thrive.
The Honest Advice about Change I Wish I Didn’t Have to Give Last Week
People have to want change in order to move towards it.
A key first step for strategic planning
Notice and acknowledge the best work you are already doing and figure out how to do more of that.
5 Steps to Planning for 2023
Planning helps us think about where we want to go…and the steps to get there.
Leadership is naming the hard stuff - and illuminating a path forward
Leadership is naming the hard stuff and illuminating a path forward
Three important lessons from a mentor who is no longer with us
Toni Littlestone was a Bay Area career coach who supported thousands of people over the years.
How a surprising royal lesson about stories and systems can help us make change
If you are a leader making change, you should also be thinking about how to make connections between individual stories and larger systems, and what you and your organization are seeking to shift.
Three tips for doing hard things – even when we feel like giving up
The Ross Collective creates spaces that support leaders to do things that go beyond their comfort zone.
How organizational values can intensify and improve fundraising and strategy
Conversations about organizational values matter because they give staff and board members the opportunity to talk about some of the questions that are most critical to the organization’s work.