Friday Selection Box: 27th September 2024

Highly skilled professionals want your work but not your job

Fascinating article about the rise of the blended workforce 

Confusing the pitch with the plan

‘A thriving nonprofit arts organization needs to hold (at least) two competing perspectives at the same time: A purpose-fueled, confident, compelling narrative that it is achieving meaningful things; and a critical, clear-eyed assessment of its limited resources and reach. The first perspective fuels the engine (drawing audiences, donors, and grants). The second steers the ship at a safe and steady pace. The trouble is, many organizations conflate these competing interests into a single narrative. They get confused between a pitch and a plan.’

Risk registers – boring bureaucracy or a perfect planning tool?

Nine ideas and tips for boards on risk registers.

Unlocking better endings

Great tips in The Decelerator blog including the all-important ‘act early’ and ‘foster open dialogue’.

Clean Break Film Festival – all online 

The company’s first film festival looking at criminalisation, racial justice and women’s rights. Still time to catch the end of the festival.

Stories from my grandmother’s house

A virtual reality tour through time, space and memory created by Mado Kelleyan at The Palestine Exploration Fund’s offices