By Kelley Abell Earlier this fall, I sat down with WNT Principal and Managing Partner Andrea Torres to talk about Strengths-Based Coaching. As part of her work with WNT, Andrea offers coaching to social sector and nonprofit executive leaders and managers. Ever ready with a growth mindset, she is passionate about building skill sets to […]
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Being able to rock her One Voice Central Texas jersey, recently gifted at One Voice Central Texas’ 40th Anniversary Party, while attending an Astros game, of course! Over the last 40 years, One Voice Central Texas has existed as a coalition of nonprofit health and human service organizations working to make sure that everyone can
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Sam Woollard and Kelly Nichols founded Woollard Nichols & Associates in 2013 to support cross-sector collaboration and build the capacity of the social sector. In 2021, Andrea Torres joined the company as a managing partner after working with the team for several years as a contractor on both client and internal projects. After two years,
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Autumn Ford is WNA’s newest Coalition Coordinator – she primarily supports Meals on Wheels Texas. She’s been on the job a few months so we sat down to ask her what her experience has been like so far. What is your favorite part of working at WNA so far? Working with a group of women
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Kat Horstmann is WNA’s newest Coalition Coordinator. After being on the job for a couple of months, we threw some questions at her and we think her answers are super thoughtful. We are so glad to have Kat as a part of our team! What is your favorite part of working at WNA? My favorite
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2021 has been a whirlwind at WNA so far, with three new staff members joining the team. We wanted to introduce them to you! Kelley Abell (Project Manager) is a performer, educator-facilitator, disability rights advocate and gardener. She will be supporting Meals on Wheels Texas as well as contributing on short-term projects. Kelley started with
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About five years ago, we met with Andrea as she started her own consulting business. Both Kelly and Sam had known and admired Andrea and were excited about looking for projects we could work on together and she became one of our Associates. Over time we realized that Andrea’s skillset is a great complement to the
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Needs assessments are a critical component of helping to build understanding about a community need and ultimately the theory of change that a collaboration or organization is pursuing to address that need. Our approach to needs assessments is grounded in the principles of Community-Based Participatory Research and Asset-Based Community Development, meaning that we want to
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I have been facilitating a lot of strategic discussions lately, and it’s been a great opportunity to put pen to paper on our theory for designing strategic conversations. I created the graphic above as a way to think about our approach to facilitating strategic conversations as an ongoing cycle. In each phase of the cycle,
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by Carol Johnson DELEGATION. It is a word that often summons up a feeling of overload in the mind of a nonprofit Executive Director (ED), especially an ED of a smaller nonprofit. We know we should delegate more, but… There is no one to delegate to. By the time I delegate it,
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