How Nonprofits Can Foster Female Leadership

By Peter Gamache, Ph.D. & Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS, Turnaround Life, Inc. Research has shown that leadership teams with gender diversity are stronger and more successful. Despite these operating advantages, the majority of nonprofit organizations still lack diversity at the upper-management level—even in a sector with a mostly female...

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How Individuals Can Become Mental Health Advocates

By Peter Gamache, Ph.D. & Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS, Turnaround Life, Inc. Mental health advocates are the number one reason why the stigma surrounding mental illness has significantly decreased over the years. They help the public see that individuals with mental illness are just people and shatter stereotypes around...

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Best Practices for Organizations as Mental Health Advocates

By Peter Gamache, Ph.D. & Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS, Turnaround Life, Inc. The concept of mental health advocacy has developed over the last 30 years to promote human rights of persons with mental disorders, improve services and reduce stigma and discrimination. Consumer and family organizations and related non-government organizations...

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Volunteer Retention and Appreciation

By Peter Gamache, Ph.D. & Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS, Turnaround Life, Inc. Many nonprofit organizations rely heavily on the work of volunteers to carry out their missions. Once you realize that the relationship your organization has with your volunteers determines the sustainability of your nonprofit, volunteer retention and appreciation...

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Volunteer Recruitment and Training Best Practices for Nonprofits

By Peter Gamache, Ph.D. & Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS, Turnaround Life, Inc. Nonprofits rely on volunteers to maximize impact while minimizing overhead. Therefore, volunteer recruitment is a crucial component of a successful volunteer program. Finding the right volunteers can come as a challenge and some recruitment methods may be...

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Internal Controls to Prevent Fraud

By Samantha Abraham Now that we’ve explored the fraud triangle and you understand how motivation, opportunity, and rationalization combine to create circumstances for individuals to commit fraud: What do you do to protect your organization? Preventing financial fraud involves removing one of the three elements of the fraud triangle. It’s...

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Protecting Your Nonprofit from the Fraud Triangle

By Samantha Abraham Have you ever heard of the fraud triangle? The fraud triangle is a visual way of explaining and understanding the three factors that combine to create the perfect circumstances for fraud: motivation, opportunity and rationalization. Motivation is the force driving someone to commit fraud. It isn’t always...

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Realism and Radical Change Create Nonprofit Sustainability

By Peter Gamache, Ph.D. & Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS, Turnaround Life, Inc. When President and CEO Kirk Ray Smith (above, left) joined RCS Pinellas in 2016, the nonprofit had been operating in the red for not just years but decades. The organization with a mission “to feed the hungry,...

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