How can you set up your mentoring program to affirm the unique gifts of each mentee, encourage mutuality, and set the mentee up for self-sufficiency after the program ends? Check out these three ideas from our upcoming Mentoring Model Action Plan.
What do pioneering rock band Van Halen and a popular candy have to do with effective charity? If we learn a lesson from that connection, we can find clients who are ready to invest in their own success. TCI’s Nathan Mayo explains in his recent article.
https://www.truecharity.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ennoble-VanHalenAndMMs_2.jpg6431066Nathan Mayohttps://www.truecharity.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TC-logo-01.pngNathan Mayo2022-04-14 10:53:342025-06-17 03:59:47How Brown M&M’s Can Transform Your Charity
The obsession with slashing overhead has resulted in fewer resources for charitable efforts. There is an alternative—a measurement that can drive funders to support your cause without forcing you to chase a metric that rates you higher when your organization is starving.
https://www.truecharity.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2021-12-Ennoble-Nonprofit-Starvation-Cycle-Article-Thumbnail1.jpg496952Nathan Mayohttps://www.truecharity.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TC-logo-01.pngNathan Mayo2022-02-07 09:48:442025-06-17 04:14:05What’s the Antidote to the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle?
More and more nonprofit leaders are looking at ways to eventually become “completely self-sustaining.” Aiming to build enough of an endowment or revenue generation programs that they no longer need to rely on donors. But there’s a lot to like about the dynamic, so why work to eliminate it? TCI’s Travis Hurley offers three reasons for reliance on a donor base.
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We owe it to our clients to ensure that they are learning from our classes and training opportunities. If you’re not using a curriculum with pre-made testing, you’ll have to design the test yourself. Here are five checks to ensure your test works.
https://www.truecharity.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5_ways_classes_program-design.jpg11371920Nathan Mayohttps://www.truecharity.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TC-logo-01.pngNathan Mayo2022-01-10 14:49:372025-06-17 04:22:075 Best Practices for Testing to Ensure Your Classes Work
Most government programs to help the poor are designed less like a safety net to break a fall and more like a sticky spider’s web. The average nonprofit can’t fix the welfare system. However, there are a lot of practical things you can do to get your clients out of it and to keep them free.
https://www.truecharity.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-12-Four-Keys-Article-Header-Image.jpg10801920James Whitfordhttps://www.truecharity.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TC-logo-01.pngJames Whitford2021-12-03 19:48:292025-06-17 04:24:52Four Keys to Help Release People from Dependent Poverty
3 Ways to Empower Mentees
How can you set up your mentoring program to affirm the unique gifts of each mentee, encourage mutuality, and set the mentee up for self-sufficiency after the program ends? Check out these three ideas from our upcoming Mentoring Model Action Plan.
How Brown M&M’s Can Transform Your Charity
What do pioneering rock band Van Halen and a popular candy have to do with effective charity? If we learn a lesson from that connection, we can find clients who are ready to invest in their own success. TCI’s Nathan Mayo explains in his recent article.
What’s the Antidote to the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle?
The obsession with slashing overhead has resulted in fewer resources for charitable efforts. There is an alternative—a measurement that can drive funders to support your cause without forcing you to chase a metric that rates you higher when your organization is starving.
When Independence Is a Bad Idea — 3 Reasons for Nonprofits to Keep Depending on Donors
More and more nonprofit leaders are looking at ways to eventually become “completely self-sustaining.” Aiming to build enough of an endowment or revenue generation programs that they no longer need to rely on donors. But there’s a lot to like about the dynamic, so why work to eliminate it? TCI’s Travis Hurley offers three reasons for reliance on a donor base.
5 Best Practices for Testing to Ensure Your Classes Work
We owe it to our clients to ensure that they are learning from our classes and training opportunities. If you’re not using a curriculum with pre-made testing, you’ll have to design the test yourself. Here are five checks to ensure your test works.
Four Keys to Help Release People from Dependent Poverty
Most government programs to help the poor are designed less like a safety net to break a fall and more like a sticky spider’s web. The average nonprofit can’t fix the welfare system. However, there are a lot of practical things you can do to get your clients out of it and to keep them free.