Leaving Well: Saying Thank You

It won’t come as a surprise that I hold Propel’s values as my own. Even the organization’s tagline, “You’re the champion of good. We’re the champion of you,” describes my…

Leaving Well: Developing the Board for Transition

In my first post in this series, I proposed three key lessons learned from my research and many conversations with outgoing and incoming nonprofit leaders:  Knowing when it was the…

Leaving Well: Organizational Readiness

This is the second blog in the Leaving Well series. To read the first, visit “Leaving Well: Is it the right time?”  I started this Leaving Well series with a…

Leaving Well: Is it the right time?

In June, I announced that I will be retiring from Propel at the end of 2023. For real. After the announcement was made, I heard from friends, peers, partners, and…

A message from Kate Barr

Dear Propel clients and friends, Today I am sharing some personally exciting news: On December 31, 2023, I will be retiring as President & CEO of Propel Nonprofits. For over…

How to be confident about your cash balances

I wrote a blog post in the midst of the havoc in the financial markets in 2008 about the risk of balances in accounts. Unfortunately, events over the last couple…

The Years of the Asterisks

I, and Propel, are in a lucky position to get to work with hundreds of nonprofits every year. As a partner and colleague to nonprofit leaders, I am often asked,…

The Next Best Thing

Photo caption (clockwise): Keven Ambrus, Mary Nehring, Amanda Duhon, and Elizabeth Appel at a staff celebration in early 2020.  Please join me in wishing my friend and colleague, Vice President…

Equity Builder: Linking Fiscal and Social Equity

The capacity for autonomous planning and choice that financial equity represents, and the social equity we need these organizations to continue working toward as part of the broad tapestry of…