Tag: leadership
The Work Needs You, But It Can’t Consume You
Self-care isn’t limited to vacations, massages, fishing trips, or quiet weekends. Sometimes self-care means scheduling the examination, confronting the diagnosis, taking the medication, changing what you eat, speaking with a therapist, addressing grief, protecting your sleep, or admitting that your body has been asking for help.
And for seasoned leaders, self-care must also include succession. We must learn how to care for the person carrying the vision and prepare the vision to outlive them.
Leaders can’t rest if they leave every decision, relationship, and idea inside their heads. We can’t step away if no one else understands the vision well enough to carry it forward.
Passion Isn’t a Business Plan: What 36 Years in Nonprofits Taught Me About Serving
Over the years, Fathers Incorporated has operated through economic downturns, COVID-19, changing administrations, shifting federal priorities, fleeting philanthropic interests, the loss of key personnel, new technology, and evolving public conversations about fathers, families, race, gender, marriage, parenting, and social policy.
Our survival has never meant that we predicted every disruption. It meant that we built enough organizational muscle to adapt when disruption came.
That’s business. And business, in this context, isn’t a dirty word.
Your Child Sees Everything: The Co-Parenting Truth Most Parents Avoid
We’ve been in the living rooms, courtrooms, classrooms, and parking lots, and on the late-night phone calls where parents are attempting something that seems straightforward but feels impossible. We’ve watched smart, hardworking people lose their footing because the topic is their child. And when the topic is the child, the stakes don’t feel theoretical. They feel like survival.
This is why the “co” in co-parenting matters more than most people realize.
The Force Still Moves: One Year Without Lawrence Wilbon
Lawrence Wilbon reminded us that love is a verb. Faith, he’d say, was something you walked out with your boots on the ground. And from lifting fathers to strengthening families, from building systems to planting seeds, Lawrence gave everything he had, without asking anything in return.
The Hard Truth About Federal Funding and Philanthropic Giving
Nonprofit leaders must build organizations strong enough, deep enough, and clear enough in purpose to ensure that no funding source — federal, philanthropic, or private — ever becomes the author of their mission.
L-FORCE: From Legacy to Leadership — A New Force for Civic Change
L-FORCE is a movement grounded in civic responsibility, community restoration, and intergenerational leadership. It is Fathers Incorporated’s bold new initiative to advance civic engagement by training and deploying Servant Leaders — not just mentors.
Q&A with Fathers Incorporated’s Kenneth Braswell
Atlanta Business Chronicle has named our 2021 Leaders in Corporate Citizenship honorees. These individuals will be celebrated at a virtual awards event Feb. 18. Here’s a Q&A with one of the honorees, Kenneth Braswell, CEO, Fathers Incorporated:
“Real Dads Read” Launches in Atlanta Barbershops to Engage Men/Fathers in Reading with Their Children
Official Launch Event at Metropolitan Library on Saturday, March 11th at 10am Atlanta, GA—March 9, 2017–Fathers Incorporated, the leading national non-profit for the promotion of Responsible Fatherhood, […]
Dr. King on Vacation; I Wonder!
I had a very strange thought while on work/vacation this week. I wondered what Dr. King thought about on vacation. I’m sure from time to time someone […]