by Caroline T Robertson | Oct 8, 2020 | Executive Leadership
Hi dee hi Ridgers! I hope this issue of Behind the Scenes finds you healthy and well! It’s so hard to believe it is almost October. It was great to see many of you during this year’s virtual conference. While there are so many pieces of the Blue Ridge Institute...
by Caroline T Robertson | Dec 23, 2019 | Executive Leadership
Hi dee hi Ridgers! If you are like me, you might be in a bit of shock that it really is mid-December and we really are at the end of a decade. The start of this decade was the start of my time at BRI! Do you know what that means? It means in 2020, 10 years after I...
by Grace-Anne Alfiero | Apr 14, 2019 | Community, Executive Leadership, Governance, Leadership
Just like no one truly owns a beautiful forest and no one truly owns a coral reef, nonprofit organizations were not set up to be owned by any one individual. Sole ownership of a tax-exempt entity is counter-intuitive and the antithesis of the sectors’ original...
by Grace-Anne Alfiero | Sep 13, 2018 | Business, Community, Executive Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Parallels With History
Reposted from Arts In Action Blog Post from 9/9/18: This week I was on a Skype call with a colleague who lives overseas and we were discussing the challenges of building an effective international work team. Knee-deep into our chat, I stated: “it’s almost...
by Grace-Anne Alfiero | Jan 17, 2018 | Business, Community, Executive Leadership, Leadership
repost from www.artsinactionllc.com Are you burning bridges without even knowing it? Are you confused sometimes when you get a less than enthusiastic reply from a donor, grant funder, supervisor, colleague, direct report or a vendor? Have projects that you thought...
by Sara Faircloth | Nov 30, 2017 | Community, Executive Leadership, Leadership, Work/Life Balance
In 1992, I became single for good. That was a good decision for me, but it came at a price. One cannot live as cheaply as two. That is just a cold, hard economic fact. One of the implications of my singlehood and single-income has been that putting off retirement...
