On September 3, the Edward Lowe Foundation will celebrate 40 years of championing the entrepreneurial spirit. This is a pretty remarkable milestone, particularly when one considers that more than 30% of nonprofits fail within 10 years.* We’ve come a long way over the past four decades, and I like to describe our evolution as characterized by five phases. Exploring the…
Our organization has always been relatively stable. Many employees have been with the Edward Lowe Foundation for more than 20 years — some for more than 30. So, I intuitively knew that our workforce was graying, but…
It’s not high-level initiatives that shape an organization. Smaller changes can be just as impactful in the long term…
We are delighted to announce that Barbara Stankowski has been named a trustee of the Edward Lowe Foundation…
BRV has a variety of ingredients that are spectacular by themselves, and yet when simmered together, they create our distinctive secret sauce…
Today marked graduation day for five of our employees who participated in a new internal leadership program launched last year…
When it comes to building rapport with board members, you have more influence than you may realize. Here are some best practices I feel strongly about…
The Michigan 40ish Under 40ish recently held its first professional development session, which focused on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)…
Reexamining our mission has become a front-burner issue for me since I became chairman of our board of trustees a few months ago…
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about employee engagement and how to make our organization a better place to work…