For years, good people who are trying their best to do good work in nonprofits have told us about the obstacles they face when trying to really change things for the better within the nonprofit system. This includes frustration with...
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Every nonprofit consultant has heard it – the desperate tone in an executive director’s voice when they call, breathlessly asking for help with a strategic plan. “And, we need to do it in the next 90 days.” Ah, that's a...
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As facilitators who love to design community engagement processes, you know we love a good check-in! And, since we can’t stop talking about community engagement this year, we thought we’d host a mid-year check-in on our community engagement work and...
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Wouldn’t it be great if there was a strategic planning process that reinvigorates your team, inserts lots of space for creativity, supports deeper thinking like finding and addressing root causes, and centers the needs and priorities of people and communities?...
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Impact Boom, a B Corp and certified social enterprise that is focused on the support and development of social enterprise globally, hosted Vicki on their podcast this month. She was grateful to spend some time chatting with host Indio Myles...
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Vicki's op-ed, "Nonprofit Boards: Yes, We Have a Problem," was published in the Santa Fe New Mexican this month. In it she responds to an earlier piece ("The Pleasures and Perils of Nonprofit Board Service in Santa Fe") that explores...
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Vicki authored "How to Do Community Engagement Right" for NPQ (Nonprofit Quarterly) this month. In it she asks: What is community engagement and how do you really, actually center a community in your social impact conversations? She also offers plenty...
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It’s only a few weeks into 2024 and we’ve been seeing a lot of organizations and foundations looking to community engagement as a way to renew their impact efforts. So, what is community engagement and how do we do it...
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Twice in my professional life I have been asked if I was the real deal. The first time was over lunch with a theatrical colleague who I pitched a social justice theater project to, back in my theater directing and...
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Social entrepreneur, author, current chair of the Social Enterprise Alliance board, and long time friend and colleague of Vicki’s, David Gaines visits the Impact Out Loud podcast this month for a lively talk about all things social enterprise. In part...
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Economic development consultant, home baker, and winner of the Great American Baking Show, Martin Sorge says it wasn’t that long ago that he wasn’t very good at baking. “I had always cooked and I was known for being the person...
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The CEO of Girls Inc. of Santa Fe, Kim Brown, believes that nonprofit strategic planning should not be centered on what an organization needs, but rather, it should be about asking what an organization needs to be doing for its...
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Tudor Montague's small business journey is a social impact success story. Montague had been working for tribes in the environmental field, and while it was a rewarding career, he had always dreamed of starting his own business. In 2015, after...
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The other day we were scrolling through one of our social media feeds and saw this: “What if I told you there is a secret club working on changing the New Mexico economy for the better through encouraging social enterprise?”…
This month our blog features a Q&A with Naveen Kanithi, the Director of Operations for Reading Quest, a non-profit with a mission to support literacy for the children of Santa Fe and West Las Vegas, New Mexico through free structured…
If you know us and our consulting work, you know we like to stay in it with you and check in often. We believe that consulting is like a good partnership, built on trust and support. (Fun fact: it’s one…
What will it take for nonprofits and businesses to realize that quick fixes cannot replace the systemic change that is needed to provide a thriving world for everyone? It’s like fixing a car. Organizations and businesses often reach out to…
Mariah Harrison, MCRP, was born and raised in New Mexico and has spent her career working with leaders in her community. Connection and service are her passions and guide both her personal growth and that of the organizations with which…
Lately, it feels like everywhere you turn you see people using the word “transformative” to describe a service or product being offered. This is especially true in the marketing of talks, workshops, and retreats referencing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice….
What does a gathering with supportive, experienced facilitation look and feel like? This is a question the Prospera Partners facilitation team continuously reflects on. We’d like to shed some light on what we have learned. Facilitate means to “make (an…
Prospera Partners cultivates resiliency through our BIG (Bold Impact for Good) programming which includes our Emerging Social Sector Leaders program that we’ve facilitated for six years for over 100 nonprofit professionals in New Mexico. Central to this program is supporting…
To change a system is to continue to tend to that system, and to constantly be asking what it needs and how you might serve to support its change. Let’s use the local food economy as a prime example. Here...
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We get asked to do strategic planning consulting and facilitation with nonprofit organizations on the regular. About 60% of those nonprofits don’t hire us after an initial meeting, however. It may seem odd to say this, but that’s not necessarily…
In Part 1 of this two part blog, Rae Miller, Associate Consultant and Facilitator at Prospera Partners, discussed the concept of multiple truths and how it can be a valuable tool in moving “us away from our defense mechanisms and…
As someone who has often found myself navigating the space in-between, internalizing the lesson of “multiple truths” has become an anchor point for my growth in leadership and personal development. Leaning into the uncomfortable, difficult conversations, and making a shift…
