The mother of collaboration
Why setting goals that you can’t achieve is the key to population-level social change
Author Archives: Martyn Drake
Taking the quick wins
Quick wins are attractive because the team knows how to do them; you’ll have something to show for it and they’ll feel they’ve made progress. But there will always be more where they came from…
Commercial Charity Book
How business thinking can help non-profits grow impact and income. Everything you need to know about earning income and using business techniques to deliver social change.
Private Mentor Programme
These programmes will commence formally in April 2020. For those who wish to begin early, a 20% discount and two free months of programme membership will be offered to those who signup prior to 31st January 2020.
CEO Breakfast Seminars
Our twice-yearly, invitation-only seminars are the only place where CEOs of the UK’s largest charities come together to share their insights and experiences around the sector’s greatest challenges and opportunities.
Overcoming charity’s biggest challenge
In April 2019 the Charities Aid Foundation, in association with ACEVO, published the outcome of its research on the greatest challenges charities face.
CEO Breakfast December 2019
A unique opportunity for facilitated, in-depth, open and honest discussion with a high-level group of peers.
My guest speaker will be James Blake, CEO of YHA, who will share his insights from YHA’s journey, from mission to money and back again.
The key to increasing agility
Having the agility to rapidly shift focus and resources is invaluable, not just for disaster response charities, but for any organisation that wants to increase its impact.
Creating a visionary strategy
Most charities’ strategy development is dominated by current challenges, and so the bigger questions don’t ever get a look-in.
Creating the ripple effect
The ripple effect is a powerful concept: the idea that an organisation can create impact far beyond its own footprint. And there’s plenty of evidence that it works.
