# Carol Hamilton

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Creating Cultures of Belonging in Nonprofit Organizations

Equity work in nonprofits requires more than diversifying leadership pipelines—it calls for organizations to examine how workplace culture, decision-making structures, hiring practices, and everyday interactions continue to reflect broader systems of inequity. Despite our current environment of ba…

More Staff Won't Necessarily Solve Nonprofit Burnout

More money and more staff are often seen as the solution to nonprofit burnout and overextension, but this episode challenges that assumption. On this episode of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, host Carol Hamilton explores how organizational growth frequently expands the scope of work rather than reduci…

Getting by with a little help from our friends!-Part 4

We close out our anniversary extravaganza with return visits from Carol Hamilton, Jamie DeNovo, and Anthony Amico

Permission Slips Every Nonprofit Leader Needs Right Now

Burnout, uncertainty, and the pressure to have all the answers have become familiar realities for many nonprofit leaders. This episode of Nonprofit Mission: Impact offers a collection of practical leadership invitations that challenge those assumptions and encourage a more sustainable way to lead.…

You Can't Predict the Future—But You Can Prepare for It: Scenario Planning for Nonprofits

In these times of constant disruption, nonprofit leaders do not need to abandon strategy—they need a different kind of strategy tool. Host Carol Hamilton introduces scenario planning as a practical approach for navigating uncertainty. Scenario planning: · helps organizations move beyond reacti…

Questions That Make Nonprofit Leaders More Strategic

Being more strategic starts with changing the questions nonprofit leaders ask themselves. This episode brings together insights from a dozen previous conversations to show that effective leadership is built through everyday practices of curiosity, reflection, and intentional decision-making. Across…

Beyond the Board Room: How Inclusive Strategic Planning Creates Stronger Nonprofits

Inclusive nonprofit strategic planning is not simply about inviting more people to the table—it is about intentionally engaging the right stakeholders at the right stages of the process to create stronger decisions, deeper commitment, and more sustainable implementation. In this episode, Host Carol…

Why a Retreat Isn't Enough: Creating a Nonprofit Strategic Plan That Stays Relevant

Strategic planning is not just a retreat—it is a comprehensive, ongoing process that helps nonprofit organizations build alignment around where they are going and how they will get there. In this episode of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, host Carol Hamilton explains why effective strategic planning re…

Cut Through the Noise: A More Holistic Approach to Nonprofit Communications

Cutting through the noise does not necessarily require nonprofits to communicate more—it requires them to communicate with greater alignment, consistency, and attention to the human beings on the receiving end. In this episode of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, Carol Hamilton talks with Meghan Speer ab…

Measure What Matters: A Practical Approach to Nonprofit Program Evaluation

How does a nonprofit know whether its programs are actually creating the change it hopes to achieve? Program evaluation can sometimes feel overly technical or out of reach, but it is ultimately about learning: getting clearer about what an organization expects its work to accomplish, gathering evi…