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September 2007 Archive
September 12, 2007 —
ORGANIZATIONAL LIFECYCLES
Time: 12:04
Susan Kenny Stevens, author of “Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-Based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity,” is the senior consultant at LarsonAllen Public Service Group and the nonprofit sector’s leading expert on organizational lifecycles. In a discussion with Pat Wyzbinski of the Nonprofit Management Fund, she differentiates seven stages of organizational life and explains how the challenges and expectations facing a nonprofit are different at each stage. Understanding where an organization is in its development helps nonprofit leaders make better decisions about its governance, management, financial resources, programs, and administrative systems, and if and how the organization can progress to the next development stage.
September 26, 2007 —
FOUNDER’S SYNDROME
Time: 8:06
It is not unusual for the identity of a founder to be tied very closely to the identity of his or her organization, but difficulties can arise when, over time, those identities are not individuated. In addition to her renowned work with organizational lifecycles, Susan Kenny Stevens has studied nonprofit founders and is herself a founder. She talks with Pat Wyzbinski of the Nonprofit Management Fund about the nature of founder’s syndrome and the challenges Boards face in governing a organization run by its founder. Susan Kenny Stevens is the senior consultant at LarsonAllen Public Service Group.
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