Grace Anne Alfiero
Beach Balls and Station Wagons
Long after the beach lifeguard left his post for the day and before some of the lyrics to Looking Glass’ number one song Brandy were...
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Grace Anne Alfiero
Apr 21, 20212 min read
Fearing Verdicts
In town to attend a national conference on guardianship and elder law, I was in San Francisco twenty-nine years ago when the Rodney King...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Mar 29, 20214 min read
Providence Crosshairs, I’m Over Those Who Say They Feel “Blessed”
I have started and stopped this article several times. I think the main reason why I am hesitating to broach this subject is because I...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Mar 21, 20212 min read
Who Wants to Handle the Truth?
Helen Keller is credited with saying, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Mar 9, 20213 min read
Is it Time to Change Tradition?
In 1966 I was born into an Italian American family living in the northeast. Tradition and the importance of family was invisibly etched...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Jul 3, 20203 min read
Leadership Choices, How I Might Have Done It
After college and before I met the man I am married to, I dated a narcissist. During a brutally lengthy five year, on-again, off-again...
Grace Anne Alfiero
May 11, 20204 min read
Lidia’s Legacy
In the early 1990s, I worked for a law office and provided geriatric care management for several of the firm’s clients. We offered family...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Apr 20, 20203 min read
Lunch, Literacy and Some Pivot Programming
Some not so obvious casualties of this COVID-19 pandemic are the auxiliary services previously provided to communities by nonprofit...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Apr 10, 20203 min read
The “Help One Artist” Campaign
Most of us know at least one brilliant artist. A painter, sculptor, writer, actor or musician. Someone who perhaps has sacrificed a...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Apr 5, 20202 min read
Meadowlark Resilience
Just this week, nature peeked out big and signs of a seasonal change are everywhere. Viridescent laurel leaf buds spider out toward the...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Mar 15, 20193 min read
Ownership vs. Leadership
Just like no one truly owns a beautiful forest and no one truly owns a coral reef, nonprofit organizations were not set up to be owned by...
Grace Anne Alfiero
Nov 10, 20182 min read
Gratitude and Reverence
Lately, with all of the strong feelings and opinions being expressed in our society, I sometimes feel like perhaps we are losing sight of...
Lindsey Nickel
Oct 15, 20182 min read
Where Did Honesty Go?
Lately, I’ve been looking for truth in a lot of places, and coming up short. These days it is difficult to tell if a news story is...
Lindsey Nickel
Sep 9, 20183 min read
Creating A Crosswalk For Collaboration
This week I was on a Skype call with a colleague who lives oversees and we were discussing the challenges of building an effective...
Lindsey Nickel
May 29, 20182 min read
Power Family
I am pretty certain that my lineage does not include links to royalty or political power. I do not believe any of my ancestors have run...
Lindsey Nickel
Mar 24, 20182 min read
Ego Out!
At a meeting with a colleague the other day, I was asked an insightful question, “How did you manage the strong personalities that surely...
Lindsey Nickel
Feb 3, 20182 min read
If Only…
I like healthy competitions as much as the next person. Of course these days, competition takes on the form of an RFP (Request for...
Lindsey Nickel
Jan 24, 20183 min read
Why We March
This past Sunday, my daughter and I donned our thermal underwear, our pussy hats, (thanks Christy Hallas) and our warmest sweaters and...
Lindsey Nickel
Jan 14, 20183 min read
Unintentional Bridge Burning
Are you burning bridges without even knowing it? Are you confused sometimes when you get a less than enthusiastic reply from a donor,...
Lindsey Nickel
Nov 1, 20173 min read
Until it Happens to You…
Two experiences from yesterday are the impetus for this blog post, demonstrating that we have further work to do as a society to create...
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