The Corporate Coalition of Chicago brings together C-suite leaders to “move beyond ‘business as usual’ to catalyze permanent systemic change.” Leaders from some of Chicago’s civic-minded companies and nonprofits such as AT&T, Discover, and United Way Metro Chicago, among others, co-founded the Corporate Coalition in 2020.
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The best advice I got from a friend and colleague when I started consulting was to spend some Saturday time on my business. I recharge, reset my inbox (the email count doesn't have to get to zero, I just try to avoid dropped balls, add commitments...
September is right on time to plan an end of year appeal.
The past few autumns I’ve been helping multiple groups plan end of year appeals. Since last year has disappeared from my memory, I think the photo above is from a campaign two years ago, for which I interviewed residents and clients of an...
A 3-minute video taught me more than years reading cookbooks.
I blog about nonprofit communications and, occasionally, cooking.I love to cook but feel like a perpetual amateur. When checking cookbooks out of the library, I gravitate to the “basics.” I feel like a passable cook – as measured by whether my...