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“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”

Fred Rodgers

Leadership & Community Insights

A Stay Interview, a Manager Training, and a 60-Day Goal: What Eight Agencies Built Between Sessions (Workforce Cohort – September 2026)

A goal of filling vacancies within 60 days. A new manager training built. A stay interview asking staff why they stay, not why they left. Onboarding restructured so training comes before exposure. These are some of the outcomes agencies accomplished since we last met,…

Help That Exists, and the Distance to It

As a leader within a social service agency, what’s the challenge you came into this work to help solve that still feels out of reach? Hanover Township invited me to facilitate a session with their Human Services Coordinating Council, and that question went to the…

What Trust Between Partner Agencies Actually Looks Like (Schaumburg Nonprofit Leaders Forum, August 2026)

Thank you to NWSRA for hosting the Nonprofit Leaders Forum in a space where inclusion isn’t just a mission statement, it’s how the agency operates: NWSRA leans on park districts across northwest Cook County and its own fundraising arm (SLSF) to make inclusive…

Putting People Back Into the Data Question (Impact Measurement Cohort – August 2026)

What if the answer to a data problem is not a better system, but more people in the conversation? That question ran through the second Impact Measurement cohort session under the Agency Capacity Builder, a program convening agencies funded by Milton Township’s Mental…

What If I Am the Problem? Bloomingdale Nonprofit Leaders Forum – August 2026

“What if I am the problem?” That question stopped the room at our Bloomingdale Township Nonprofit Leaders Forum, hosted by UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago. Partners realized that stepping in to just handle something themselves, instead of inviting a teammate to rise to…

Two People Housed: The Real Return on Resource Sharing (Nonprofit Leaders Forum – Hanover Township)

Two people have a place to live tonight because one partner shared a landlord list with another agency. That’s the return our Resource Sharing segment was built to produce, and it’s the news that opened our seventh session of the Nonprofit Leaders Forum serving the…