Just want to note again that no one has ever asked any of our Frequently Asked Questions.

Friendly reminder about our mandatory all-staff Teams call at noon today on employee burnout. Please read all the materials, especially the 6,000-word HBR article, and have your “personal stories” prepared for the small-group breakouts. And remember, cameras on!

Who wants to give the board member a ride to the airport? [Absolute deep space silence.]

We were hoping for critical mass but we’ll settle for five people multi-tasking on mute with cameras turned off.

Posting to our channel has slowed because the executive director now reviews all posts in advance.

Hear me out: Instead of fighting the people causing all the problems in the world, let’s PARTNER with them!

Agenda for all-staff: * Welcome * New-hires put uncomfortably on the spot * Threats from HR * Pointless department updates * CEO toxic positivity * End

The funder is excited about our work, but wants us to identify a deliverable that is more than an output but less than an outcome.

I’ve been informed by Accounting that I can buy my six-figure donor one glass of wine, but not a cocktail.

Our Olympic-size planning session will feature gold medal breakouts and objectives you’ll carry a torch for.

We need a brat thing, but nonpartisan.

The board has identified lack of nimbleness as a challenge so we’ll do a deep dive on that at the April 2025 retreat.

Board members began to say that the dashboard we were providing them in advance of meeting was too complex, so now we have a dashboard for the dashboard.

I don’t know why this needs to be repeated: The good cookies are for boardmembers and no one else.

We provide community-based solutions, because community solutions just don’t have the right ring to them.

Last year, we took great strides on this issue. Which is to say, we hired three consultants to take great strides on this issue.

It has been *0* days since someone mentioned capacity building.

Just found out that two of my direct reports are being paid more than I am.

We need to adopt a different language around the work we do.

We’re going to force multiply our ability to capacity build our community based-ness.