The future is coming, and faster than you think. What are you doing to prepare your charity, church, division, department and cause for the future?
This isn’t a theoretical question, it’s something every none profit leader must be asking themselves today. Rather than give you answers to what the future looks like, let me give you some questions that I ask myself:
1. Are you preparing for putting your content online?
2. Can you expand your service through technology?
3. Are you training your specialists in use of technical multipliers (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.)?
4. Are you using social media to expand your fan base?
5. What if your support was derived 100% from individual donors, could you reach them easily, inexpensively?
6. What would you do to communicate if you couldn’t use paper?
7. How would you expand if you couldn’t build any more buildings?
8. How would you lead if you had to use volunteers and no paid staff?
9. How can you reach the most people for $0?
10. Are you defending the status quo for your comfort or on principle?
There must be dozens of other great questions that could be prompters, share them with me as you think of them.
The answers will vary, but when thinking of the future, it’s most important that we be asking questions. Lots of questions, crazy questions, so that we have thought about alternate paths to success.
David Curry
