Article Delegation That Actually Works Why Your Delegated Tasks Keep Coming Back (And What to Do About It)
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Article Different Cultures Need Different Humans Get Honest About Your Culture Before You Interview Anyone
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Article An Interview Process Where Everyone Says HELL YES You Know Who You Need. Here’s How to Actually Find Them.
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Resource Toolkit Jess’s Interviewing Toolkit Everything you need to stop hiring the wrong people — and start finding the ones who’ll actually thrive.
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Article The Right Role at the Right Level Why Your Last Hire Didn’t Work Out (And How to Get It Right Next Time)
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Article The 1:1 Template That Solves Everything (Seriously!) What I learned from managing 15 people badly
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Resource Toolkit Laila’s Delegation Toolkit Everything you need to stop tasks from boomeranging back — and actually develop your team in the process.
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Story Build Something Worth Belonging To A Helia Member Story on how to build an organization people fight to keep alive
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Article What Can AI Actually Do for You? AI won’t save you. But it might free you up.
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Resource Toolkit Meg’s AI Starter ToolKit Leverage AI for the tasks that drain you, so that you have more space to be human.
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Resource Toolkit Toolkit: The 1:1 That Solves Everything (Seriously!) The structure that makes feedback flow, accountability stick, and trust build week after week.
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Article The Organization Doesn’t Matter. The Work Does. Mergers, closures, and the structures that actually serve your mission
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Resource Toolkit Jess’s Right Hire Toolkit Stop writing job descriptions. Start with the questions that actually prevent a mis-hire.
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Article Making Change Actually Stick One-pagers don’t make change stick. People do.
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Story Good Endings A Helia Member Story about when shutting down the org is the bravest choice
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Article When It’s Time for Someone to Go Scripts and strategies for the hardest conversations
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Story I Just Want to Love My Job Again A Helia Member Story on why you don’t have to carry everything alone
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Article Your People Already Know The Discovery360: a strengths-based approach to finding out what’s really happening in your organization
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Resource Toolkit The Discovery360 Toolkit Everything you need to hear what’s really happening in your organization — and do something about it.
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Article Fundraise From Your Strengths On why the best fundraising plan starts with what you’re already great at — and builds from there
Natalie Bergstrasser with Natalie Bergstrasser
Resource Toolkit Helia’s Fundraise From Your Strengths Toolkit The planning guide and campaign tools that help you build a fundraising plan you’ll actually use.
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Resource Toolkit The Change Management Toolkit Make change actually stick — by sitting alongside the people being asked to change.
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Article What If Your Theory of Change Is Your North Star? Why the best theory of change gives you freedom to move
Julia Matthews with Julia Matthews
Resource Toolkit Julia’s Theory of Change Toolkit Mapping out your North Star
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Article Stop Hoping You’ll Hit Your Revenue Target Why you’re always behind on revenue (and how to finally get ahead)
Emily Schaffer-Kling with Emily Schaffer-Kling
Resource Toolkit Helia’s Pipeline Tracking Toolkit Stop hoping you’ll hit your revenue target. Start knowing.
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Article Your Board Is Only as Good as Your Relationship With Them Why a healthy, productive board starts (and ends) with one thing
Nancy Fournier with Nancy Fournier
Article Build A Budget Based In Reality What I Learned From the Worst Year of Budget Meetings
Amy Omand with Amy Omand
Resource Toolkit Amy’s Budget Reality Toolkit Build a budget that holds up all year — and have the conversations that make it possible.
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Article What Your P&L Won’t Tell You  How the Net Asset Roll Forward shows you what’s actually going on with your restricted revenue
Andrea Chen with Andrea Chen
Resource Toolkit Andrea’s Net Asset Roll Forward Toolkit Finally understand what’s actually going on with your restricted revenue — and make decisions from clarity instead of catching up in a panic.
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Resource Toolkit AI For Fundraising Toolkit Use AI to find funders, write in your organization’s voice, and build tools your whole team can use.
Natalie Bergstrasser with Natalie Bergstrasser
Article Hold My Beer: AI Skeptic Turned Power User What happens when a tech-averse fundraiser gave AI a real shot
Natalie Bergstrasser with Natalie Bergstrasser
Article The Hidden Manager Job Description What managers actuall signing up for and why clarity determines who succeeds and who burns out
Nina Jacinto with Nina Jacinto
Resource Toolkit Nina’s Manager Toolkit Get clear on what managing actually requires — and start doing the job on purpose.
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Story Tell Me More Words A Helia Member Story on being curious instead of being right
Dianna Tremblay with Dianna Tremblay
Article The Financial Map You’ve Been Missing Financial security is for everyone — not just CFOs.
Raj Thakkar with Raj Thakkar
Resource Toolkit Raj’s Fiscal Practices Toolkit Get an honest read on your organization’s financial health — and a clear prescription for where to start.
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Article Playbooks to Build Consistency AND Culture How to close the gap between your strategy and Tuesday morning
Chris O’Brien with Chris O’Brien
Resource Toolkit Chris’s Playbook Toolkit Everything you need to build consistency into your work — and actually keep it there.
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Article Layoffs 101: How to Do a Shitty Thing in the Least Shitty Way Possible How you treat people through the hardest moments defines everything that comes after
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Article When To Get a Coach On what becomes possible when you’re not carrying it all alone
Nancy Fournier with Nancy Fournier
Resource Toolkit Nancy’s When To Get A Coach Toolkit How to find the right coach for you
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Story One Annoying Task at a Time How one Helia Member went from endless wordsmithing to using AI as a daily thought partner
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Article The Secret Sauce of Good Convenings How to design gatherings that actually move things forward
Sebastian Johnson with Sebastian Johnson
Resource Toolkit Toolkit For A Great Convening Choose the right format for your gathering — before you plan a single agenda item.
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Article Cybersecurity Without the Panic What Actually Matters and Why
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Resource Toolkit New Harbor’s Cybersecurity Toolkit Get the basics in place — so you can stop worrying and get back to your mission.
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Article Before the Dashboard Why the foundation comes before the fancy stuff
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Article Marketing For The Messy Middle A marketing framework for mid-stage orgs that, well, works
David deSouza with David deSouza
Resource Toolkit Data Infrastructure Toolkit Everything you need to build a data foundation that actually works.
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Article Government Was Never the Whole Answer A Helia Member Story on building partnerships that keep good work moving when funding gets cut
Cindy Vatalaro with Cindy Vatalaro
Resource Toolkit Cindy’s Government Partnership Toolkit Build the relationships that keep good work moving during a crisis — before you need them.
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Article Make Better Decisions How to help everyone in your org ask the questions that lead to better decisions
Michael Chae with Michael Chae
Resource Toolkit Mike’s Decision-Making Toolkit Everything you need to think through decisions — and build the muscle across your whole org.
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Article How Are You Actually Using Those OKRs? How one iron rule makes everything else flexible — and why that’s the whole point
Nicole Pollock with Nicole Pollock
Resource Toolkit Nicole’s OKR Toolkit Build a measurement system that actually sticks — without drowning in the spreadsheet.
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Article Hiring with Heart and Strategy How to Not Drown in Hundreds of Applications
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Resource Toolkit Sophia’s Hiring Foundations Toolkit The JD template, job boards list, and scoring rubric that does the work BEFORE anyone applies.
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Article How to Run Good Meetings Stop wasting everyone’s time (including yours)
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Resource Toolkit Libby’s Good Meetings Toolkit Run meetings your team will actually want to attend.
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Article The Magic in Reaching Out to Others Why a real human will almost always move you further than 5 hours with AI
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Resource Toolkit Jess’s Reach Out Anyway Toolkit Everything you need to make the ask — from the email you’ve been sitting on for three weeks, to the seven-month job search that turns into a network-building practice.
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Article How to Break Down Silos Hear us out: It’s meetings. (GOOD ones!)
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Resource Toolkit Alyza’s How To Break Down Silos Toolkit Be the connector — with the tools to make it real
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Resource Toolkit Claudia’s Stepping Aside Toolkit A guide to leaving well — with intention, clarity, and a plan that honors what you’ve built.
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Story Other Lives to Live: When It’s Time to Step Aside A Helia Member Story on Stepping Aside Gently
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Article Stop Recruiting, Start Searching Why the Right Hire Isn’t on Your Rolodex
Caroline Fitz-Roy with Caroline Fitz-Roy
Resource Toolkit Caroline’s Custom Search Toolkit Tools for running searches that find you candidates you never would have considered
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Article Don’t Just Go Out and Buy That AI Tool! There’s no perfect AI tool — only the right one for where you actually are.
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Resource Toolkit Grace Kim’s Tech Adoption Toolkit Start from your real friction — not the firehose — and walk into any tech decision knowing exactly what you need.
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Resource Toolkit Working With Difficult People Toolkit Some tools to better work with the people who drive you a little crazy — whether you’re managing one, working beside one, or you ARE one.
Article There’s No Such Thing as a Difficult Person How to work with people who drive you a little crazy (OR, how to drive people less crazy)
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Story Everyone Leaves A Helia Member Story on Succession Planning
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Resource Toolkit Pat’s Succession Planning Toolkit Tools to make succession planning pro-active and not a crisis.
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Article How to Reset a Struggling Team Good News: You’re the Problem (And You Can Fix It!)
Leah Peters with Leah Peters
Resource Toolkit Team Resets Toolkit Everything you need to diagnose what’s breaking your team, lead a meaningful reset, and actually follow through.
Leah Peters with Leah Peters
Article Not Every Headline Needs A Campaign How to respond to urgent moments without damaging your brand
Katelyn McArdle with Katelyn McArdle
Resource Toolkit Helia’s Rapid Response Toolkit Everything you need to decide whether to respond to an urgent moment — and how to do it without damaging your brand or exhausting your team.
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Article Fundraising That Runs Itself (Almost) Want to feel less frantic about money? Treat fundraising like accounting.
Andrea Chen with Andrea Chen
Resource Toolkit Andrea’s Fundraising Toolkit The pipeline tracker and weekly meeting agenda that make fundraising feel less like a scramble — and more like a well-oiled machine.
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Article A Strategic Plan You’ll Actually Use And you only need two days to create it!
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Resource Toolkit Libby’s Strategic Planning Toolkit Build a strategic plan your team will actually use — in two days, on two pages.
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Resource Toolkit Jess’s Honest Transitions Toolkit Everything you need to navigate the hardest people conversations — from the moment you know it’s time to the email that tells your team.
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Resource Toolkit David’s Marketing Playbook Toolkit Build a customer-first marketing system — one that’s connected to who you’re actually serving and what your business is trying to do.
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Article Clear Roles, Clear Compensation How one document becomes the HR backbone of your organization
Rachel Kleban with Rachel Kleban
Resource Toolkit Helia’s Job Leveling Toolkit Stop reinventing the wheel when it comes time to review performance. Use a Job Level Framework.
Rachel Kleban with Rachel Kleban
Article The Building Blocks of an Effective Meeting Stop winging your meetings; build good ones instead.
Jess Britt with Jess Britt
Story Start the Budget With Revenue, Not Expenses How Tilting Futures stopped chasing money
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Article Grantwriting Isn’t an Essay Contest The best writing doesn’t win the money. Following the rubric does.
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