Thursday, July 17, 2008

Great attitudes during tough times....

I had a wonderful day with a group of nonprofits from Sarasota, sponsored by the Community Foundation of Sarasota (and a shout out to all the staff for making my day so easy). What a great group of nonprofit staff and board. Nonprofits in Florida are facing very very tough times, and so the topic of the day "Mission-Based Management in Difficult Financial Times" drew a crowd: the room was packed.

You might expect a lot of doom and gloom in a room like that, but people were upbeat, attentive and appreciative to the nth degree. Very inspiring, but then rooms of nonprofit staff always are to me.

I go back in December to talk about "Social Entrepreneurship" and in February to talk on "Generation Change in Nonprofits". I'm looking forward to both trips.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tough times seems to be a common theme these days. Our organization is experiencing a similar status and it is interesting to watch how all respond to "tough times". I go up and down on the continuum. I remind myself that when I am going through the stress of things, that I will feel differently the next day. Things are what they are and I try to maintain the perspective that it is how I respond to those external things that will make the difference.

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