Leveraging the Year’s End to Rest, Reflect, and Reimagine
As we approach the year’s end, we are leading with deep gratitude. The TREC team got together to compile and offer you some reflections as well as a myriad of resources to help with three practices: Rest, Reflect, and Reimagine.
Boards Reimagined: Breaking Free from Business as Usual
What if boards could be something entirely different? What if they were engines of creativity, accountability, and connection? What if they helped organizations and their leaders meet this moment instead of clinging to business-as-usual?
Budgeting for Impact: Investing in People Amidst Challenges
A healthy, motivated team is the backbone of any mission-driven organization, and mid- or year-end budget reviews offer the perfect opportunity to ensure your finances are working for both your programs and your people.
Turning Concern into Action: Year-End Giving for Environmental Nonprofits
This past year, the story of philanthropy across North America has been one of resilience, momentum, and a growing heartbeat for the planet. In the United States, charitable giving swelled to nearly $593 billion, breaking records and reminding us that generosity thrives even in uncertain times. For environmental nonprofits, the question is not just how to ride this wave, but how to sustain it, deepen it, and turn it into lasting change.
Leading Through Crisis: Being a Leader Without Losing Yourself
In times of global crisis, whether it’s a pandemic, political upheaval, climate emergencies, or economic instability, leaders are thrust into roles demanding strength, clarity, and presence. Whatever leadership role you play in your organization, there are a few helpful things to keep in mind while leading during periods of high stress.
It’s time to update your campaign strategies: Leveraging your power to win
The movements that have come before us offer the answer: strategy is our secret sauce. Keeping your focus on the long game, building strong coalitions, developing messaging that harnesses collective longing, evaluating and pivoting, relentless discipline, and seizing of opportunities: these are the hallmark of successful campaigns.
Welcoming Two Incredible Team Members to TREC
In times like these, the people we surround ourselves with—and the communities we build—matter more than ever. That’s why we’re especially excited to share some wonderful news: two extraordinary leaders are joining the TREC team.
Living into our values over our fears
This moment asks us to live boldly into our values. Yet, we are often facing limitations for what we can do and have capacity for, and all managing different levels of risk both personally and organizationally. How can you possibly balance these things?
Know Yourself and Choose the Narrow Door: Strategic Planning
Though you can’t predict the conditions coming at you, you can elevate your understanding and insight to make the wisest choices available to you. Whether you have just a few hours or have more leeway to coordinate with others and explore a more intensive strategic planning process, give yourself the gift of reflection so you can assess yourself and position in order to make the wisest choice you can. Having a solid understanding of your organization’s position poises you to make powerful choices, especially if you need to take dramatic actions.
Building the Network you Need
As we navigate political volatility, reduced funding, and uncertainty that is coursing through our sector, it’s more important than ever to build relationships that will sustain us for the long haul.