In episode 11 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Elizabeth Woolfe, discussed include:

• The importance of an interim director for organizations
• The process of transitioning and the strain that puts on an organization
• The importance of having a plan in place for when your leader leaves
• Growth mindset with Boards
• What the role of the Board and the role of the staff are in an organization and how those differ
• The importance of taking breaks for yourself

Guest Information:

Elizabeth Woolfe is a lifelong nonprofit professional with expertise in affecting strategic change and facilitating growth for organizations, as well as in assisting boards and organizations through transitions. She also has strength in building philanthropic relationships between nonprofit and for-profit companies, facilitating collaborations, and program development. Her particular areas of interest are interim leadership, management of organizations and boards, strategic assessment, organizational development, board functionality, and relationship building.

Links:

• https://www.intuitionconsult.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethwoolfe/

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In episode 11 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Nyacko Perry, discussed include:

• Addressing accountability of past actions as a method of moving forward
• Creating a healthy environment with room for employees to care for their mental health
• The process of making change in an organizational structure
• The disconnect between many organizations' missions and their internal culture
• The disconnect between front-line workers, the people running many nonprofit organizations, and the communities they serve
• Thoughts on how organizational change happens
• How systems exploit vulnerable populations

Additional Resources:

• William Bridges' Transition Theory: https://wmbridges.com/about/what-is-transition/
• The 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
• 1619 podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1619/id1476928106

Guest Information:

Nyacko Perry utilizes a systems-thinking approach to assist individuals, community groups, and organizations, in creating more inclusive cultures. Her decade long career as a transformational change agent includes national and international facilitation with non-profit, corporate, and government agencies. Nyacko is the founder of Yin Consulting, a collaborative focused on personal, organizational and systemic healing.

She is the Organization Development Partner at the much-anticipated Comfort Kitchen, a restaurant, community meeting space, and a food incubator dedicated to fostering collaboration, cross-cultural understanding, and community engagement.

Nyacko also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Action Boston Community Development, Inc. Roxbury/N. Dorchester Opportunity Center. Nyacko holds an M.S. in Organization Development, with distinction, from American University. She is also a 500-hour professional level yoga teacher, an Afro Flow Yoga® certified teacher, and weaves her mindfulness expertise into her consulting work.

Links:

• www.yinconsulting.com/
• [email protected]
• www.comfortkitchenbos.com/
• www.instagram.com/comfortkitchenbos/
• www.allinconsulting.co

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Welcome to the Nonprofit Mission Impact Podcast. This week we're talking to Heather Yandow.

We talked about:

• What gets in the way of nonprofits hiring consultants successfully.
• Why an RFP process is often not the best approach to having a great experience with a consultant.
• The trends we are observing in this time of disruption.

BIO:

Heather Yandow brings more than 20 years of experience as an outreach coordinator, coalition leader, project manager, and fundraiser to Third Space Studio. She helps organizations with strategic planning, board development, change management, leadership development, and going from good to great. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Democracy NC, ncyt: NC's Network of Young Nonprofit Professionals, and the Beehive Collective (a giving circle). She is also the founder of Nonprofit.ist, an online platform for nonprofits to find the consulting expertise they need.

Links:

https://www.nonprofit.ist/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatheryandow/

https://www.thirdspacestudio.com/

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Welcome to the Nonprofit Mission Impact Podcast. This week we're talking to Carol Vernon

We talked about:

• The four typical communication styles.
• What shows up in communications now that so many teams are working remotely.
• How people can keep networking even while face to face events are cancelled.

BIO:

Carol Vernon is a certified executive coach and principal of Communication Matters, an executive coaching firm that helps leaders and teams elevate their executive presence and communication skills in order to grow their impact. Carol was inspired to start Communication Matters after years of observing that doing your job well isn't enough. Without executive presence and the ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, leaders can't achieve their full potential or achieve the results they seek. Previously, Carol was the senior communications director at the National Cable and Television Association, as well as acting executive director of the cable industry's education foundation, with both people management and budget responsibilities. Prior to that she worked on Capitol Hill and on more than a dozen political campaigns.

Links:

https://commmatters.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-vernon-aa09833/

https://www.facebook.com/ComMatters/

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Welcome to the Nonprofit Mission Impact Podcast. This week we're talking to Becca Bartholomew.

We talked about:

• Ensuring all voices are included in planning processes
• Why it is important for leaders to not only have intelligence but also have emotional intelligence and somatic intelligence
• What the buffering sign on your computer has to tell us about today's work environment

Barry Oshrey's Tops, Middles and Bottoms https://govleaders.org/total-system-power.htm

Ladder of Inference: https://thesystemsthinker.com/the-ladder-of-inference/

Your Body is Your Brain by Amanda Blake https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40515283-your-body-is-your-brain

BIO:

A facilitator and coach with expertise in organization development (OD), Becca has extensive experience working with groups and individuals to foster communication and effective collaboration among diverse stakeholders. Becca helps her clients implement strategies that increase their emotional intelligence and efficacy. She is known for her clear communication, innate ability to foster trust, and firm, yet gentle approach to helping others recognize their blind spots and engage specific tools to articulate and reach their goals. She gracefully supports her clients toward self-reflection, new learning and increased awareness of their impact on others. She works with leaders of all types and has a special passion for those newer to leadership as well as those who hold societal privilege and want to address their roles in upholding and then dismantling systems of oppression.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccabartholomew

https://twitter.com/thebeccab

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Welcome to the Nonprofit Mission Impact Podcast. This week we're talking to Cinthia Manuel.

We talked about:

• the challenges nonprofits face in trying to make their services more accessible.
• What to think about before getting started with community engagement.
• Why Cinthia thinks traditional mentoring is backward.

BIO:

Cinthia Manuel is the CEO and Founder of Autentica Consulting, LLC. She specializes in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; Mentoring; and Multicultural Marketing. She is the proud daughter of immigrants and a first-generation Latina. She was named one of the 23 Business People to Watch in 2019 by the Portland Business Journal for her work contributing to communities of color through professional development, mentorship, and entrepreneurship. She is passionate about education and has worked with the Gates Millennium Scholarship Alumni Association, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and the United Negro College Fund. She is a TEDx speaker. She deeply believes that building strong communities is key to creating a powerful voice that drives change.

Links:

https://www.autenticaconsulting.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/autenticaconsulting/

https://twitter.com/AutenticaCo

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Welcome to the Nonprofit Mission: Impact Podcast. This week we're talking to Arielle Goodman, Jenny Hegland and Jessica Srikantia.

We talked about:

• What this uncertain moment in history could mean for the systems that we live in and

take for granted

• How we are born into a collectively traumatized culture that has a domination logic built into its systems.
• A systemic analysis can divorce ourselves from our part in that system – as if it exists outside of us instead of us existing within these systems.

Resources mentioned:

• Otto Schwarmer and the MIT Presencing Institute

• • https://www.ottoscharmer.com/
  • https://www.presencing.org/

• Thomas Huebl

• • https://thomashuebl.com/

BIO:

Arielle, Jenny and Jessica are a team of colleagues that has been working together for the past six months to discover how they might be of service as a collective. Their work exists in cultivating the spaces between, such as in-between people during times of transition and not knowing, spaces within our own selves, or the connective tissue of complex systems. Together, they explore what is possible in and from wholeness. They are committed to transforming themselves into alignment with life, so that they can support this work in the broader world inclusive of and beyond their individual selves. Their areas of expertise include navigating uncharted terrain in times of uncertainty, helping systems see and sense themselves, and practicing sacred relationships with team and stakeholder groups.

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyhegland

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-srikantia-206797173/

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariellegoodman/

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Welcome to the Nonprofit Mission Impact Podcast. This week we're talking to Beth Sperber Richie.

We talked about:

• What Burn Out is and why Burn Out is so prevalent in the nonprofit sector
• What the research shows about rest and productivity for organizations.
• What vicarious trauma is and how it impacts staff and an organization's culture.

BIO:

Beth Sperber Richie, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and consultant in private practice in the Washington, D.C. area. Dr. Richie works with non-profit leaders on how to sustain their staff and their mission given the grind of social change work. She gives workshops and presentations on managing stress and burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, improving cross-cultural communication and counseling skills and setting boundaries for front-line employees. Her workshops focus on practical skills and engaged involvement of all participants.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fermata-consult

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Welcome to the Nonprofit Mission Impact Podcast. This week we're talking to Rebecca Murphy.

We talked about:

• What organizations need to think about to be ready to partner
• Having clarity about what your why is key for partnering.
• Why mission creep is so common among organizations and what drives it.

BIO:

Rebecca has been a consultant for over 20 years. She considers herself an "interpreter," as she has worked in multiple sectors including government, nonprofit, business, and philanthropy. She is adept at explaining/translating one to another. She is a generalist with a broad knowledge base – including workforce development, affordable housing, parks and placemaking. She has expertise in capacity building, organizational and program development, strategic planning, with particular expertise in public-private partnerships, community engagement, and strategic collaborations. Hers is a mission-focused practice. She is passionate about mission fidelity and avoiding mission creep.

Links:

https://rcmstrategicconsulting.com/

https://twitter.com/RCMStratConsult

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Welcome to the Nonprofit Mission Impact Podcast, the podcast for nonprofit leaders who do not want to be a martyr to the cause. This week we're talking to Tip Fallon. Tip Fallon is a coach and consultant who is passionate about working with people to reach their potential.

We talked about:

• the masks many people feel forced to wear or personas they assume in the workplace.
• Why we need to do some preventative work to make things easier for people with targeted identities.

• How we are the product of the history that has created systems of oppression, as well as creating history ourselves

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tipfallon

https://www.fallonconsulting.net/

https://twitter.com/tipfallon

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