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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

Leading Change Through People: Innovation, Mission, and the Right Structure (Workforce Cohort – October 2026)

“We’re going through the same things, just in different seasons of our organization’s history.” That’s what leaders in our Agency Capacity Builder – Workforce Cohort keep discovering: sit at the same table each month, and your toughest workforce challenges turn out to…

The Coach Approach Workshop with Options & Advocacy for McHenry County

The leadership team at Options & Advocacy for McHenry County spent an afternoon coaching each other out loud, on real situations. The workshop was on turning a one-on-one into a coaching conversation. I had the opportunity to write and facilitate the training….

Seeing the Office and the Shelter in the Same Morning (Schaumburg Nonprofit Leaders Forum – September 2026)

There is a difference between hearing about an agency’s work and standing inside it. Our fourth Schaumburg Township Nonprofit Leaders Forum was hosted at The Harbour (https://theharbour.org)’s administrative offices, and while we met, we could hear the team around us:…

Measuring What Matters Rather Than Measuring Everything (Impact Measurement Cohort – September 2026)

A universal spreadsheet started from scratch. An old-school paper form outperforming the software it replaced. Board meetings that now open with a success story. These are things agencies in the Impact Measurement cohort have already taken action on, reported at our…

What You Only Learn by Walking the Building (Bloomingdale Nonprofit Leaders Forum – September 2026)

There is a kind of progress that shows up when the same people keep coming back together. We bring real problems, we work them out loud, and we return to find out what actually moved. That is what the Bloomingdale Township Nonprofit Leaders Forum is for, a place where…

Ten Nonprofit Leaders Close a Year of Building Trust (Hanover Township Nonprofit Leaders Forum – September 2026)

A partnership between organizations is worth what it moves for the people they serve. Ten nonprofit leaders spent a year building the trust that makes that possible. In the final session of the 2025-2026 cohort, mid-level leaders from agencies funded by the Hanover…