About Me
- I have founded, led, and served nonprofit organizations and programs for over twenty years, serving in roles at every level, top-to-bottom and back again.
- I've engaged well over a million people in campaigns and raised tens of millions of dollars for mission-based organizations. I have degrees in law and public policy.
- I've written over a dozen bills that have become law.
- All I do is find the essential, refine it, and showcase it to the right audiences. It's simple. But it's hard to do when you're in the middle of the work.
My theory: Every organization needs (1) a mission; (2) a theory of change; and (3) a theory of justice. Everything else proceeds accordingly if you keep the standards high and the focus on those three things.
P.S.
(My wife thinks I should tell you that I am a compassionate, humanist INTJ.)
About Coherent Nonprofit
Coherent Nonprofit helps discern the mission-essential, then configure the organization to pursue it effectively, efficiently, and sustainably.
Nonprofits are inherently complex. They are corporations subject to the rules of corporate governance, and also to the rules imposed by their tax-exempt status.
In many cases, they must serve multiple audiences; often an audience of funders distinct from the audience of customers directly served.
Over time, complexity--coupled with resource limitations and the challenges of managing day-to-day priorities--can divert an organization from the clearest structures, programs, and pathways to pursuing its mission.
My approach at Coherent Nonprofit is to focus on the essential, and to align structures and activities accordingly.
I have founded, led, and served nonprofit organizations and programs for over twenty years, serving as executive director, program manager, board member, general counsel...all the way down to cleaner-of-bathrooms and orderer-of-office-supplies.