




Heather is an experienced Nonprofit Manager, Researcher, Trainer, and Blogger. She teaches and presents on a variety of topics in the nonprofit sector and she participates on a variety of national nonprofit committees including the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition and Independent Sector's NGen Advisory Committee.
I have also written three nonprofit toolkits you can purchase on my website:
Starting a Nonprofit
Nonprofit Operations Toolkit
Setting up a Nonprofit Office
In this blog I write about nonprofit leadership, nonprofit careers, the nonprofit workforce, nonprofit technology, and nonprofit management education.
It’s Valentines Day and there are pink decorations, candy, clothing, and cards in stores everywhere! Whenever I see something pink I cannot help but think of the Susan G. Koman Foundation. Many nonprofit bloggers wrote about the Koman Foundation defunding and then refunding of Planned Parenthood (see John Haydon’s blog post highlights) but I cannot [...]
Brief notes/resources from breakout sessions this morning. Adding Power and Value to your Partnerships Proposals Parker Pike provided steps and resources for securing corporate partnerships. Conduct an internal audit of their resources (staffing, finances & current marketing resources) Partner with local media (San Diego area media contacts, do you have a list in your town?) [...]
I’m listening to the keynote this morning by Will Marre “The Top 10 Questions Every Nonprofit Needs to Answer to Survive” and I’m excited because I’m noticing a common theme with his speech—the importance of branding your nonprofit! Coincidentally, Rosetta Thurman and Allison Jones are currently hosting a live twitter chat for young professionals with [...]
Tomorrow I’ll be live blogging the 2010 Cause Conference in San Diego hosted by the San Diego Chapter of the American Marketing Association. This year’s conference will focus on nonprofit marketing strategies to beat recession. Also Jessica Van Der Stad will live blog from the AMA conference blog. The twitter hash tag for the conference [...]
I am excited to be hosting the blog Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants for the first time on this blog! There were some great posts this week! Here are some marketing and fundraising tips. 1. Jeff Brooks of the Donor Power blog writes in his post why most fundraising doesn’t work. 2. Katya Andresen of the [...]
