by Graeme | Mar 14, 2023 | case study, impact, income, Leadership, Making a Lasting Difference, strategy, sustainability
Carers Link East Dunbartonshire are faced with a challenge that so many charities can relate to: when you’re full to capacity, how do you make the space to focus on long-term sustainability? It hasn’t been for the want of trying; the team have attended Lasting...
by Graeme | Nov 7, 2022 | capacity, innovation, strategy, sustainability
We’ve always said the way to cope with the sustainability paradoxes is to screen new ideas. But we’ve not shared a ‘Lasting Difference’ way to do this. Until now. Our straightforward new idea screening tool helps you assess new initiatives with...
by Graeme | Aug 27, 2021 | case study, Effectiveness, improvement
Scotland’s International Development Alliance were our first partners in online learning, reaching their members from all over the globe in 2018. Things have developed rapidly in the sector since then, and even more so since their Effectiveness Toolkit was created in...
by Graeme | Aug 27, 2020 | Lasting Impact, strategy
This article is part 4 in a series of 7. Read parts one, two and three here. Our organisations won’t be around for ever – start planning for that. Why was your organisation set up? Why does it still exist? How long does it plan to be around? What would happen if...
by terry | Sep 2, 2017 | impact, Principles, strategy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The principles and paradoxes of sustainability One of the core principles of sustainability is that it is about more than just money. Finance is only one of the sustainability challenges faced by not-for-profit organisations – and...
