Beyond the Invite: Strategies for Boosting Participation in Community Engagement Processes
Stakeholder Engagement planning is easy. Getting people to show up and share ideas is more challenging.
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Angie McLeod
May 14 min read
Inclusive Conversations, Impactful Results: The Essentials of Community Engagement Planning
Planning is required to run successful campaigns. Learn how to craft a community engagement plan to discover stakeholder needs.
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Angie McLeod
Apr 304 min read
Empowering Voices: Strategies for Meaningful Stakeholder Participation
Choose who to invite to stakeholder conversations, by defining the purpose (WHY) of the conversation and what it is you want to learn.
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Angie McLeod
Apr 302 min read
The Art of Engagement: Cultivating Meaningful Community Relationships
Stakeholder engagement empowers our community share their ideas about our future and enables our agency to remain responsive to local needs.
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Angie McLeod
Jan 184 min read
Elevate Your Board of Directors: Craft A Capacity-Building Plan That Works
Before recruiting new Board of Director members, doing an internal Board Evaluation to assess your Board's strengths and areas of...
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Angie McLeod
Dec 21, 20234 min read
From Chaos to Clarity: Transforming Dysfunctional Non-Profit Board of Directors into Powerhouses
As identified in “Digging Deeper: Demystifying Non-Profit Board Responsibilities in Canada,” every Board of Directors has three primary...
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Angie McLeod
Dec 1, 20234 min read
The Vital Importance of Building Trust between Non-Profit Executive Director and Board Chair
In a non-profit organization, no relationship is more important than the one between the Chair of the Board and the Executive Director...
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Angie McLeod
Nov 30, 20233 min read
How to Foster Healthy Dynamics in Your Non-Profit Board of Directors
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...
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Angie McLeod
Nov 2, 20234 min read
Techniques to Overcome Constraints in Strategic Planning: Questions, clustering, and prioritization
Given the time that the Board can dedicate to strategic planning - 8 hours is typical from start to finish, including a review of the...
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Angie McLeod
Oct 19, 20234 min read
Are you ready to SOAR to Success? Embracing Appreciative Inquiry in Strategic Planning.
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...
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Angie McLeod
Oct 12, 20236 min read
Crafting a Roadmap: The Essential 5 Steps to Prepare for Non-Profit Strategic Planning
Your organization is considering embarking on a strategic planning process. As a Committee, the Board has charged you with making...
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Angie McLeod
Sep 20, 20233 min read
Mastering Non-Profit Board Recruitment: 6 Steps to Success
Non-Profit Board Recruitment. In non-profit circles, these two words can raise stress levels, cause anxiety, and send ripples echoing...
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Angie McLeod
Sep 13, 20232 min read
Jaw-Dropping Funding Collaboration
HIP had been hired to coordinate our local community network - a grassroots umbrella organization that brought together many non-profit...
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Angie McLeod
Mar 7, 20203 min read
How to Tap into Your Inner Creative Storyteller
If you’ve been following the storytelling blog posts, you’ve likely discovered that we are building a series of tools and resources to...
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Angie McLeod
Feb 29, 20202 min read
Play and Experiment: Crafting an Impactful Story
Some folks are natural storytellers; others, not so much. For those of us without the storytelling gene, we need experiment & practice.
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Angie McLeod
Feb 5, 20203 min read
Positive Relationships: The Art and Science of Writing Grants
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...
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Angie McLeod
Jun 27, 20193 min read
Intermingle for the greater good.
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...
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Angie McLeod
Apr 26, 20193 min read
The other side of trust: Do you trust yourself?
We often talk about trusting others; however, how often do we examine whether or not we trust ourselves? In my work with women...
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Angie McLeod
Jan 1, 20193 min read
The Stories that Shape Trust
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...
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Angie McLeod
Oct 20, 20174 min read
How good is your conversational agility?
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....
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