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How Board Members Can Advocate Successfully For Their Non-Profit
When you became a Board Member for a nonprofit what was your motivation? Did you dream of a better future for a specific group of people? Did you dream of creating awareness for an important cause? Did you think you could make a difference by becoming an advocate to increase awareness, educate and raise more funds? If the answer is yes, the question is “How’s it going for you?”
Are you putting in a great deal of time, energy, effort and commitment into a nonprofit you truly believe in only to find your efforts aren’t returning the results you want? Sometimes the law of diminishing returns can impede your potential success.
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Advocate Respectfully
This is one of a series of brief articles on holding difficult conversations. In earlier issues of Ki Moments, I suggested ways to open communications that create mutual respect; we talked about the importance of knowing your purpose for the conversation; and we added Inquiry and Curiosity to our conversational toolbox. Here the topic is Advocacy.
Advocacy is the flip side of Inquiry – the opportunity that you open for yourself to tell your story. What can you see from your perspective that they’ve missed? Can you clarify your position without minimizing theirs? For example: “From what you’ve told me, I can see how you came to the conclusion that I’m not a team player. And I think I am. When I introduce problems with a project, I’m thinking about its long-term success. I don’t mean to be a critic, though perhaps I sound like one. Maybe we can talk about how to address these issues so that my intention is clear.”
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Advocacy – Making a Difference in Our World
Advocates for those less fortunate than us are considered icons in our society. The late Eunice Kennedy Shriver is a model of a champion for the less fortunate. Inspired by the mental challenges of a sibling, she founded and created a whole new world in the 1960’s for individuals now involved in the Special Olympics.
I got to thinking about this recently.
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