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5/21/12

Corona launches beta of Co-Strategy

Last week, Corona launched the beta version of Co-Strategy, a digital collaboratory designed exclusively for nonprofit agency executives to think and act strategically. We celebrated this milestone with a special breakfast and invited a few dozen nonprofit agency executives to participate in our beta test of the platform. Click here to learn more about Co-Strategy. Stay […]

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3/23/12

CWEE featured on PBS

The Center for Work Education and Employment (CWEE) was featured on a recent PBS NewsHour feature, “To Receive Welfare, Should Drug Tests Be Required?” CWEE’s executive director Laurie Harvey, who has been working with single mothers for 30 years, is interviewed in the clip as Colorado is one of the states considering this new measure. […]

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Corona Insights employee Karla Raines

2/27/12

The vortex of anxiety

Anxiety in organizations is like a vortex – a whirling mass with suction capable of drawing into its current everyone that surrounds it.  I’ve experienced the vortex firsthand in my strategic consulting work.  I’ve learned that the vortex exists when leadership is absent or insufficient.  More specifically, I’ve witnessed it swirl, suck and consume the […]

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Corona Insights employee Karla Raines

2/21/12

Inspiring the next era nonprofit association

Inspire – to motivate, to stimulate to action, to bring about, to fill with enlivening or exalting emotion As a consultant, I strive to do more than advise, provide expertise or facilitate decision making.  I want to inspire my customers to believe they can do and be more than they are today.  Not only do […]

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Corona Insights employee Karla Raines

2/1/12

Foresights Exemplified – Hello, Nonprofit Business Model

As consultants, we have the privileged opportunity to learn from each customer engagement.  We also practice at our professions. After all that’s what it means to be a practitioner. Each consulting engagement provides a forum for me to hone my associative thinking skills – an opportunity to make connections across ideas and customers – and […]

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Corona Insights employee Karla Raines

1/30/12

Colorado Symphony: Act 3, Scene 1

Lately I’ve been intrigued by the Harvard Business Review article “Strategy Tools for a Shifting Landscape” by Michael G. Jacobides (January 2010) in which he makes the case for a narrative approach to strategy analysis. Jacobides writes, “In an age when nothing is constant, strategy should be defined by narrative – plots, subplots, and characters.” […]

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1/25/12

Corona in action

What better way to learn about the quality work Corona does than through the experiences of our various customers? Check out our updated Case Studies to see Corona in action. Over the years, Corona has helped a wide array of customers through market research and strategic consulting answer the questions most important to them, and […]

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Corona Insights employee Karla Raines

1/20/12

Next Era Nonprofits: Upcoming SVP Workshop

We’re in an era of profound and broad change for the nonprofit sector.  In fact, this may be the most dynamic period the sector has experienced in two decades.  Not only are the rules for success being rewritten, we’re thinking anew about what to call the sector, who is in the sector, and what defines […]

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12/19/11

Corona and CausePlanet.org

Do you confuse planning with strategy? Check out Karla’s featured article on CausePlanet.org – Strategy is a 24/7 Endeavor.  Karla articulates Corona’s approach to strategy development and even includes a few 2012 resolutions for you. This article also heralds Corona Insights’ partnership with CausePlanet.org, an online resource for nonprofit leaders. For years, CausePlanet.org has been […]

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12/5/11

Colorado Gives Day 2011

Tomorrow (December 6)  is Community First Foundation‘s second annual Colorado Gives Day.  This 24-hour event is a special opportunity to “give where you live.” Last year, Colorado Gives Day exceeded expectations and their $1 million fundraising goal by raising $8.4 million. In 2010, about 540 nonprofits participted and 83% acquired new donors. This year, all […]

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