Open Questions: The Ross Collective Blog
Sharing insights and stories on nonprofit strategy, racial equity and leadership
My Toughest Consulting Gig—and the Surprising Lessons It Taught Me
Four lessons from a horrible experience
Four steps to assess risk and language in our heartbreaking times
We are receiving questions from clients about how to go forward now. Specifically, we are hearing that, given the attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Federal level, some organizations are feeling pressure to change their messaging or strategies. Here are four steps to assess risk and language in our heartbreaking times.
Four Keys to Weather Current Nonprofit Financial Challenges with Resilience
Across the nonprofit landscape in 2025, organizations are facing a perfect storm: federal funding uncertainty, volatile markets, and donor hesitation. At Fairlight Advisors, we've had a front-row seat watching our clients navigate these choppy waters. Here are four keys to financial resilience.
Three Key Questions to Keep Your Strategic Plan Relevant in Uncertain Times
Adaptive leadership is necessary to keep your strategic plan relevant in uncertain times.
How effective scenario planning enables responsiveness and flexibility
Some key steps to scenario planning
Guiding a loving, compassionate way forward in a very hard moment
Information on our brand refresh and new website.
How to Handle Toxic Board or Staff Members: A Crucial Tip for Leaders
Leadership is standing up to toxic people - in order to build a positive organizational culture
Five Important, Energizing Steps to Planning for 2025
A strategic planning process to reflect on 2024 and plan for 2025
How getting angry about financial inequity has focused and energized our work
How do we build a nonprofit sector and nonprofit consulting sector in which each person is well-resourced and thrives?
What recent events teach each one of us about making change
What potential energy may be on the other side of your leadership shift?
How to upgrade organizational culture even when you're not at the top
Five steps for team culture change
Four key steps to face government funding shifts with energy and courage
This post shares four steps for leaders from nonprofit organizations to manage shifts in government funding.
How the smallest seeds can harvest a big fundraising reward
How to find donors if you are starting from scratch - or starting again.
How meeting challenges with resilience, presence and love can be a superpower
How to find the energy in the challenges we encounter
Four Ways Nonprofits Can Safely and Legally Leverage the Election
What nonprofit leaders can do now.
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?