Executive Director Goals

1. Write 10 facts about yourself

2. Describe a time your nonprofit failed horribly 

3. Describe the daily life of an archetype of one of your donor bases

4. Where will your nonprofit be in 6 months?

5. Where will your nonprofit be in 10 years?

6. A dialogue where you fail to secure a donation.

7. A dialogue where you win the heart of a prospect. 

8. What was your journey into the nonprofit world?

9. A time where one of your volunteers did something extraordinary

10. The first paragraph of a grant of your ideal program 

11. One of your favorite personal successes 

12. Dialogue of a conversation you wish you could have with your Board Chair

13. Describe the journey of a major donor to your nonprofit 

14. The hardest day at your job 

15. Compose 10 tweets about one of your programs 

16. The first paragraph of a blog announcing exciting news from an existing program 

17. The first paragraph of an email announcing a new program 

18. Why should someone donate to your nonprofit?

19. What do your nonprofit fundamentally do?

20. Were your nonprofit to be successful, what would the world look like?

21. Tell the story of the demise of your competitor 

22. From the perspective of a donor, why are they loyal to your nonprofit?

23. From the perspective of a volunteer, why are they loyal to your nonprofit?

24. Imagine a hypothetical event where everything that could go wrong did go wrong. 

25. You receive a mystery box sent to your nonprofit. What’s inside?

26. Compose an email celebrating the next big milestone for your nonprofit (5 years, 10 years, 25 years, etc.) 

27. What would be someone’s experience if they walked into your office the day before a grant was due?

28. What’s your favorite story to tell a donor?

29. Why did you join your nonprofit?