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What the Mona Lisa taught me about the opportunities we’re failing to see
The Pull of the Familiar
There is something deeply human about moving toward what’s familiar – what’s famous, what everyone else is already looking at. In the nonprofit sector, we constantly flock toward the familiar. We chase the same funders because that’s where the money has always come from. We run the same programs because they’re the ones people recognize and attended last year. We measure success the same way we always have because that’s what we think is expected.
Kathy moved across Canada, from east to west and back, a couple of times for work, lost her job and promotion opportunities, and embraced change events that opened new doors that led her to her passion. Today, Kathy Arney is the Founder and President of KEA Canada, established in Banff, Alberta in 2013. KEA provides supports to charities and non-profit organizations in areas that include capacity-building, resource development, coaching, interim leadership and campaign planning and management.
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Why Nonprofit Leaders Miss Their Biggest Opportunities
What the Mona Lisa taught me about the opportunities we’re failing to seeI have to be honest with you: I don’t really get the Mona Lisa. On a recent trip to Paris, I stood in the Salle des États at the Louvre, craning my neck past the hundred-person crush to see the...
Smart Tools for Smarter Grant Writing
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Listening – The Heart of Donor Relations
There’s an art and a science to strategic meetings.Here is a great video called Having Strategic Conversations from Karen Osborne, on how to plan a strategic meeting. When I was first starting out in major gift meetings, I remember being soooooo nervous. I wrote...