Before you think about who board members should be or what programming will look like, you have to decide: what will the culture be?
Nontoxic Nonprofits was born of the belief – solidified over many years in the nonprofit world – that a healthy culture is more fundamentally essential to a nonprofit’s success than anything else. It is simply not possible to reach or expand an organization’s potential when toxicity is present.
Toxicity may look like this:
Alone or in combination, toxic traits will cripple an organization’s growth and rot it from the inside.
Nontoxic Nonprofits, led by Certified Nonprofit Consultant Kate Viana, works with small and mid-size nonprofit organizations to identify, address, and eliminate toxicity. We utilize proprietary assessments at both the individual and organizational levels to determine where toxicity has taken root and offer hands-on coaching to retrain stakeholders to prioritize the mission in all activities.
When the mission comes first, toxicity can’t flourish.
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We believe that culture, in large part, is shaped by the communication, whether it’s a board president’s address or a receptionist’s email. The way organizations and their employees craft and receive these messages reveals virtually everything you need to know.
We believe that perception isn’t just your opinion. It’s your reality. When perceptions misalign, communication suffers – until employees leave, programs falter, and funding slows to a trickle. In other words, until the organization itself has become ineffective at best, and toxic at worst.
We believe that no matter the mission or size of the donor base, no organization can thrive without staff and volunteers that feel heard, respected, and valued. Without intentionally clear communication, they begin to fail.
The health of any organization is only as good as its employees’ communication. Poorly written emails, unaddressed misunderstandings, and frosty interdepartmental relations can have serious and far-reaching consequences.
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Do your employees see the board members as hopelessly out of touch? Does your ED struggle to find a balance between the two groups? Do your organization’s leaders find themselves acting more like referees and mediators? We can help.
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