December 24, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
It’s almost time for New Year’s resolutions and the author of New
Voices of Philanthropy has a suggestion on how the nonprofit world can improve itself in 2008 — stop being so boring!
“My biggest pet peeve is boring nonprofit and foundation staff,”
writes Trista Harris, a program officer at the Minnesota Community Foundation, in St. Paul. “Terrible PowerPoint presentations from
someone from the social sector make me want to scream out ‘you have the most powerful and emotionally wrenching material out there and all you could come up with is this dry, picture-less, graph-filled PowerPoint about your 10-year strategic plan?!’”
Ms. Harris writes that if Al Gore’s PowerPoint presentation on climate change can help him win a Nobel Prize, then nonprofit staff members should be able to keep an audience awake for 10 minutes. On her blog, she suggests several marketing and communications experts who offer advice on improving presentations.
What do you think? How can the nonprofit world be less boring? Share your views by clicking on the “comments” link below.
