THE BOARD RETREAT WAS A SUCCESS! Had a wonderful time facilitating the Strategy and Planning Board Retreat for Panhandle Community Services this weekend! We really worked hard and came up with great results that will set the trajectory for the rest of the planning process and for the organization as a whole for many years to come! This was a post on my Facebook page from back in September of 2014. So what exactly constitutes a successful board retreat? I believe there are 3 v

Today, successfully procuring organizational funding from new or existing grant sources takes high level work and collaboration between teams. The competitive nature of current grant opportunities demands for organizations to put their best foot forward to get funded. I have been a grant professional for some time now. I used to think, “Anyone can do this, it’s easy. Write a few pages, submit them and get people money…Voila.” And at the very least, this is basically what