"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 it, might be quietly limiting how well they lead. Together, we dove into the real challenges of mid-level leadership in community nonprofits. Partners left with two questions to run before jumping in: does stepping back actually...

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 residents of Hanover Township. Two Partner Consultations picked up that same thread. One partner had been quietly asking herself whether the boundaries she needed would be read as fair or as not being a team player, the exact...