Good Works

Good Works is honored to be leading the CEO search for this great nonprofit! Please check it out, and if anyone you know who is passionate about child abuse and neglect prevention seems to be a good fit, please share the info and encourage them to apply.

🌟 Join our team at TexProtects! 🌟

🔍 Seeking a passionate CEO.📍Location flexible in Texas.

We're seeking a mission-driven, highly strategic, dynamic Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the organization into this next chapter, galvanizing current and future supporters to rally around our cause.

Chief Executive Officer Position Profile: 👉 https://lnkd.in/gbcDZkZS

Apply today with your resume and cover letter to [email protected].

Our client OneStar is lunching a new Texas volunteering portal!

OneStar believes that service is a cornerstone of what it means to be a Texan, and we are committed to creating pathways for you to meaningfully engage in your community. This , we are excited to announce the launch of , our new online portal where you can search more than 2,000 volunteer opportunities throughout Texas!

VolunteerTX is a one-stop shop connecting people who want to help with organizations and causes statewide that need support. Visit volunteertx.org and find ways that you can start taking action!

Texas Governor Abbott has declared April to be Child Abuse Prevention Month and has provided a bevy of resources for our communities to use. Good Works is proud to serve many child abuse prevention and foster care nonprofits, and our founder is proud to be a gubernatorial appointee to the Department of Family and Protective Services Council.

Social Media Toolkit: Child Abuse Prevention Month April is Child Abuse Prevention Month (CAPM), and we want your help to empower communities with resources to support Texas children, youth, and families where they live, work, and play!

Extremely proud of our client OneStar Foundation for this great strategy work completed during a very challenging year!

We Are One Texas: Defining OneStar’s New Vision, Mission & Beliefs | A Letter from the CEO Around this time last year, I was laying out ambitious plans for a fresh start with the dawning of a new decade. I think we can all agree that 2020 did not go as expected! Despite the many challenges we have encountered this year, I am proud of how OneStar and our partners have responded—including...

Good Works is 3 years old! Thank you for all who have trusted us to come alongside you and your mission.

We are grateful to have served 36 clients with the following characteristics:
- Mostly nonprofits, but also several corporate, government, faith-based, and philanthropy clients
- 15 focused on growth strategy
- 9 tackled some form of merger
- 4 were successful executive searches
- Mostly from Texas, but many from other geographies and/or national in scope
- Engagements as diverse as helping a former US Senate majority leader grow a population health organization, helping launch an innovative national college scholarship platform, re-inventing a large national cancer foundation, setting strategy with the City Council of one of the fastest growing cities in US, and more

And the ultimate beneficiaries of our work have been wonderfully diverse, including ex-offenders, foster kids and parents, college students, people with disabilities, cancer survivors, immigrants seeking health care, low income women, and more.

So proud to be participating virtually with our client’s first ever online annual conference. NSPA has done an incredible job of innovating and pivoting to meet their members’ needs, and this year more people than ever have registered to attend. Congrats National Scholarship Providers Association !

National Scholarship Providers Association

Our client OneStar Foundation is hoping nonprofit leaders across Texas add their voices to this survey on the economic impact of on nonprofits by Friday 10/16.

In response to , we know that among this year:
✅ 82% had to cancel revenue-generating programs or events
✅ 70% adjusted operations or services to directly address COVID-19
✅ 40% experienced more staff and volunteer absences
txnonprofits.org/covidimpact

But a lot has happened in the past few months, and new challenges and trends continue to emerge as the pandemic evolves. Take our new statewide survey by Friday 10/16 to let us know how we can best support your nonprofit's latest needs! bit.ly/txcovidfall2020

Thought this quote about HOPE from Thornton Wilder was appropriate right now, especially for those working to help others in the midst of all the crazy in our world right now.

"Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair. Despair all too readily embraces the ills it foresees; hope is an energy and arouses the mind to explore every possibility to combat them...

In response to hope, the imagination is aroused to picture every possible issue, to try every door, to fit together even the most heterogeneous pieces in the puzzle. After the solution has been found it is difficult to recall the steps taken—so many of them are just below the level of consciousness."

The work schools are doing to prepare to educate our kids is truly amazing. Our client Greenhill School in Dallas is leading the way. Dozens and dozens of new digital cameras on stands being prepped to give students as robust of a learning experience as possible. Proud to be helping them chart their strategy for the future.

Every funder and nonprofit needs to read this article. I especially loved:

1. “Along the way, however, we began starving nonprofits of the flexible resources they need in favor of funding our outcomes. Milestones became millstones as nonprofits tried to meet our priorities and often-unfunded mandates.”

2. “Organizations need support for their mission. Funding strategic planning, staffing or evaluation efforts rather than specific programs or narrow outcomes, meets that need and yields a greater return on that investment, positioning the nonprofit to move the needle on their area of focus.”

Opinion: Stop Starving the Nonprofit Sector — Community Foundations Public Awareness Initiative Dallas Foundation President and CEO Matthew Randazzo outlines several actions foundations can take to better support their grantees, both now and for the long-term.