HiP Strategic Non-Profit Consulting is growing up!  After 20 years in business, we are doing vital work to review, revise, and revitalize...

Planning is required to run successful campaigns. Learn how to craft a community engagement plan to discover stakeholder needs.

Choose who to invite to stakeholder conversations, by defining the purpose (WHY) of the conversation and what it is you want to learn.

HIP had been hired to coordinate our local community network - a grassroots umbrella organization that brought together many non-profit...

With Movember at an end and December now in full swing, it is often a time of joy as well as a time to reflect on what can one person do...

As I sit at my desk I am pondering many things related to the COVID-19 crisis. Among them is how will this situation impact my...

We'd all like to be able to stop time. Or at least push it back. After all then maybe we'd be able to fit all the things that we want...

Having worked alongside countless dedicated non-profit leaders, I know that many are becoming burnt out. Exhausted. Deflated. Tired of...

Consistent and varied community engagement is key. Recently I wrote an article about the importance of non-profits building strong...

It’s worth it to make connections and ask for help. Often, when I help organizations with strategic planning, they want to get input from...

The reality is that not all conversations go the way we want them to. Some plug along in neutral, wishy-washy by their very nature....

Judith E. Glaser, founder of the Creating WE Institute and author of Conversational Intelligence, notes that 9/10 conversations miss...

Our brains are intrinsically wired to release a number of neurochemicals—some that lead to stress and arousal, and some that lead to a...

Do you remember in school when teachers made us come up with group rules before starting a group project? It was an important lesson....

I’ve spoken in the past about gremlins … those nasty monsters that sit on your shoulder and tell you what you cannot do. They tell you...

Collaboration. It’s a term that many throw around as a means to achieving better results in business. Yet so few of us actually implement...

Networking is an essential part of building a strong business. Or so the story has gone for decades. Get out there. Meet people. Identify...

As a community developer, I’ve long known how important is to feel like we belong: that we have a tribe of likeminded individuals in our...

I’m learning a lot of new terms of late. And today I found a term that really resonated with me: collective intelligence. Why does this...

I found some statistics online about the success rate of goal setting and accountability systems from the Association of Training and...