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, 2021
- 2 min
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 21, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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
- Mar 15, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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
- May 25, 2018
- 2 min
A Sabbatical for Old Glory
Old Glory will not be flying in front of my home this weekend, but not for the reasons you might think. Typically, my family likes to...
Lindsey Nickel
- Apr 13, 2018
- 2 min
TanPoPo No Ye…The Traveling Dandelion Seed of Goodness
A few years ago I had the good fortune to work with some amazing folks in Japan. We took a train from the hustle & bustle of Tokyo to a...
Lindsey Nickel
- Mar 24, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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
- Jan 10, 2018
- 3 min
Mompreneur and Mindfulness
Last weekend at the end of a two day video shoot, my tired tween spoke up and said, “I want my mom! I don’t want the producer, editor, or...
Lindsey Nickel
- Jan 7, 2018
- 4 min
Third World, My World?
In a recent meeting with a board member of an international non-profit, I was asked a question that stopped me in my tracks. “Grace, have...
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