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Indianapolis Junk Cars
By Johnhobbs October 30, 2014
I called around for my daughter to sell her car. It was an 03 Alero and had been involved in an accident and tore up the front end. Indianapolis Junk Cars gave me the best price, came in and towed it away for free and they were very professional the whole time. ...read more
Childhood Leukemia Foundation
By Anonymous September 23, 2014
Used to work @ CLF for 18 months plus, a good legit organization. has the best percentages when it comes to giving the kids the money that they take in. ...read more
Indianapolis Junk Cars
By Anonymous September 07, 2014
Indianapolis Junk Cars pays you cash for your junk car and they are easy to deal with. They are really nice people. ...read more
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Effective Nonprofit Leadership: Thoughts from Aspen Impact
To be an effective nonprofit executive, there are certain things you can do beyond defining and pursuing a mission or tracking results. Here are three areas of impact that can position your organization to thrive. One pivotal lever for impact is the ability to communicate a message powerfully to the desired service group and to the supporters of the nonprofit.To achieve the first aim, a nonprofit leader has to make the social issue as relevant, understandable, and emotionally gripping as possible to his or her constituents. The leader also needs to build a memorable and compelling identity for the nonprofit. By doing these things, the nonprofit will stand out among the many social service groups that compete for scarce resources in a community. The nonprofit will, in turn, engage its service population to the fullest and become a magnet for talented staff, passionate volunteers, and crucial grants and donations. For these reasons, communication power is at least as important as metrics and efficiency, and perhaps even more crucial. A second lever is the ability to design and run an operating model that generates lasting results rather than short-term results among the service group.The nonprofit leader should study the dynamics of the social issue all the way back to root causes, figure out where along this trajectory the nonprofit should begin its intervention, and then time the intervention to short-circuit potential problems for the service group early in the causal chain. The leader should use his or her position to focus the nonprofit on prioritizing early-intervention activities and then seek deep impact, even if deep impact means serving fewer clients than before. Over many years, the volume of impact matters, but in the early years of an initiative, the leader should focus on testing and refining the interventions to see which approaches really take hold in clients’ lives. Don’t expand the scale or scope of the nonprofit until the service delivery model has really proven itself in practice. A third lever is strategic recruitment and training.Earn a reputation for being a judicious selector of potential board and staff members. These people need to realize from the outset that they will be expected to commit wholeheartedly to the cause, or else they should not bother joining. It may take a while to assemble an outstanding cast, but the results will reward the leader’s care and perseverance. It is usually better to have five outstanding team members than ten good ones, since the outstanding ones can build the strongest foundation for the long term. If they introduce high-quality solutions and demonstrate a great work ethic, they will elevate the aspirations and commitment of all subsequent recruits. Nonprofit leadership is complex, so many other factors bear consideration, too, but the above priorities will deliver the greatest impact from day one. Bryan Richards, MBA, MEdAdvisor to nonprofit organizations and businesses ...read more
By Aspen Impact January 27, 2012