What I'm Reading
A running record of the outside work shaping how I think about nonprofit strategy. I add to it as I read.
La Piana Consulting · 2024
Convergence: Nonprofit Mergers and the Strategic Case for Coming Together
The clearest framing I have found for treating partnership as a strategy choice rather than a rescue. I return to their restructuring continuum in almost every coalition conversation.
Read at sourceEngage R+D · 2023
Equitable Evaluation in Practice
Useful pressure on how we decide what counts as evidence. It reshaped how I build measurement into planning workbooks.
Read at sourceVermont Community Foundation · 2025
The State of Vermont's Nonprofit Sector
The baseline data I reach for when a board wants to know how their organization sits against the sector. Grounds a lot of my early-engagement conversations.
Read at sourceThe Bridgespan Group · 2023
Rooted in Resilience: A Framework for Organizational Health
Complements the strategic metabolism framework well. Their capacity model gives boards a shared vocabulary for what stability actually requires.
Read at sourceVermont Foodbank · 2024
Strategic Plan, 2024 to 2028
A model of a plan that reads as a real instrument rather than a brochure. I point clients to it when they doubt a plan can be both rigorous and legible.
Read at sourceChait, Ryan, and Taylor · 2005
Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards
The foundation under most of my board development work. The generative mode is the part boards most often skip and most need.
Read at sourceStanford Social Innovation Review · 2022
The Overhead Myth and What Replaced It
Worth rereading whenever a funder conversation drifts toward ratios. A clean argument for judging organizations on capacity, not cost.
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