1. PRACTICAL LEADERSHIP: A BALANCED APPROACH Jon Pratt & Jodi Sandfort June 4, 2009 Flickr: Auntie P

2. 5 Challenges Nonprofit Leaders Need to Confront  Financing  Structuring  Engaging  Governing  Advocating

3. Three competing nonprofit organizational models  Enterprise  Sub-contractor  Network

4. Enterprise: Nimble value   Seeker of financial opportunity   Market orientation   Proprietary   Financial goal setting   Empowered executive decision making   Entrepreneurial

5. Sub-contractor: Loyal performer   Partner to government or 3 rd party payors   Vertical accountability within a field   Task orientation   Clear expectations   Fidelity to past decisions   Compliance to funding conditions

6. Network: Interactive responder   Independent voice and mobilizer   Oriented to constituency and democratic participation   Information generous   Sense of community ownership   Interactive decision making   Relational goal-setting

7. Three competing nonprofit organizational models  Enterprise  Sub-contractor  Network

8. Enterprise

9. Sub-contractor

13. Network

14. Sub-contractor Enterprise Network

15. Sub-contractor Enterprise Network

16. Sub-contractor Enterprise Network

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18. Sub-contractor Enterprise Network

19. 5 Challenges Nonprofit Leaders Need to Confront  Financing  Structuring  Engaging  Governing  Advocating

20. Financing: How are resources assembled?

21. Structuring: How do we organize ourselves?

22. Governing: Where does board attention lie?

23. Discuss in Groups of Three…  How have you seen this tension play out in your organization? Among staff? Among staff? Among staff and board? Among staff and board? With funders? With funders?  How are these conflicts resolved?  What could you do if you change perspective?

24. Engaging: How do we get input?

25. Advocating: How is the agenda set?

26. Leadership: Seeing with a new perspective Flickr: Auntie P Flickr: Frankz Flickr: Juan Eduardo Donoso

27. Practical Leadership: A Balanced Approach Jon Pratt Jodi Sandfort June 4, 2009