Stakeholder Engagement planning is easy. Getting people to show up and share ideas is more challenging.

Planning is required to run successful campaigns. Learn how to craft a community engagement plan to discover stakeholder needs.

Choose who to invite to stakeholder conversations, by defining the purpose (WHY) of the conversation and what it is you want to learn.

Stakeholder engagement empowers our community share their ideas about our future and enables our agency to remain responsive to local needs.

Before recruiting new Board of Director members, doing an internal Board Evaluation to assess your Board's strengths and areas of...

As identified in “Digging Deeper: Demystifying Non-Profit Board Responsibilities in Canada,” every Board of Directors has three primary...

In a non-profit organization, no relationship is more important than the one between the Chair of the Board and the Executive Director...

Today, I want to examine what makes a board healthy. Yes, I said healthy. A healthy Non-Profit Board of Directors is dependent on two...

Given the time that the Board can dedicate to strategic planning - 8 hours is typical from start to finish, including a review of the...

Here at HIP, we like to think we do things differently. One of the ways we stand apart from most Strategic Planning Consultants is our...

Your organization is considering embarking on a strategic planning process. As a Committee, the Board has charged you with making...

Non-Profit Board Recruitment. In non-profit circles, these two words can raise stress levels, cause anxiety, and send ripples echoing...

HIP had been hired to coordinate our local community network - a grassroots umbrella organization that brought together many non-profit...

If you’ve been following the storytelling blog posts, you’ve likely discovered that we are building a series of tools and resources to...

Some folks are natural storytellers; others, not so much. For those of us without the storytelling gene, we need experiment & practice.

I’m not a grant writing professional by any means. I have, however, spent many an hour writing grants for clients or as part of the...

We'd all like to be able to stop time. Or at least push it back. After all then maybe we'd be able to fit all the things that we want...

We often talk about trusting others; however, how often do we examine whether or not we trust ourselves? In my work with women...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how TRUST is built. It’s the cornerstone of every relationship we have – and yet there isn’t a...

The reality is that not all conversations go the way we want them to. Some plug along in neutral, wishy-washy by their very nature....