You wouldn’t write a grant proposal without careful thought and preparation, so why walk into a donor meeting with nothing but the ask on your mind? As Eleanor Roosevelt put it, “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan,” and that’s just as true for a thirty-minute coffee meeting as it…

Maybe your organization had a strategic plan years ago, and it’s time to pick the process back up. Maybe you have one, but it’s been collecting dust on a shelf. Or maybe you’ve never had one and aren’t sure where to begin. Wherever you’re starting from, the same truth applies: a plan alone doesn’t produce…