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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

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…

Mission, Niche, and the Middle Ground: Workforce Cohort Session 2 Recap (Workforce Cohort – August 2026)

“What are you afraid to tell me?” That is a question one agency’s executive leader is asking their staff as they seek to better know and support their team. It became the standout moment of our second Workforce Cohort session under the Agency Capacity Builder, a…

Conflict, Compensation, Community

These are three words I’ve been hearing lately when I sit with nonprofit leaders, not as separate topics but as three threads of the same conversation: conflict, compensation, community. None of them are new, but the frequency has picked up. Conflict shows up first…