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By the Solid Ground Team Social distancing is a vital practice during a pandemic.  Unfortunately, it’s also at odds with one of the activities we at Solid Ground value most – collaboration.  Collaboration means closing – not growing – the distance between us as...

Editor's Note: The following article, authored by Solid Ground Senior Consultant Rich Bruer, was published in the Summer 2015 issue of Saving Land, a Land Trust Alliance journal. The content is relevant to a much wider audience of nonprofits, so we're posting it here...

Training is an important step in building a strong board of directors. In the winter 2015 issue of Saving Land, a publication of the Land Trust Alliance, our own Marc Smiley offers a few of his favorite tips: Look at the big picture. Many nonprofits put a lot of...

Editor's Note:  The following post is adapted from remarks made by Wes Ward, Senior Advisor for The Trustees of Reservations and a consultant at Solid Ground, at the Sudbury Valley Trustees' annual meeting in October 2014. While most relevant for our land trust and...

Three years ago, a nonprofit we know and love received a generous, six-figure gift to its endowment fund. This created a happy dilemma for the board of directors:  what to do with all that money? But everyone was still rattled from the recession, and the market...

Who are the leaders within your organization? Are they so named simply because they “manage” people, or do they have other qualities that have nothing to do with title and rank? More importantly, can leadership be learned? It sure can. My colleague Jim Morris and I...

Our lives are full of stories, from those we tell our friends and hear from co-workers to those we consume all day across the media we can’t live without. Research tells us humans are hard-wired to be storytellers. It’s our default method for giving meaning to the...

“Donor”? “Member”? How about “BFF”? Many nonprofits struggle with how to describe their supporters: Members? Donors? Something else? In the strictest sense, “members” can only be part of a “membership” organization, which is defined by that group’s bylaws. And as they...

Like many other land trusts, the New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJCF) has its share of problem easements. One of six land trusts that participated in the Easement Revitalization Initiative, NJCF allowed Solid Ground’s national conservation team to rummage around...

We are looking for candidates who will bring diversity to our team... along with solid professional skills, passion, and a positive outlook. Consultant - The Consultant plays a key role on the Solid Ground Consulting team, providing organizational development and...

Decisions Decisions is now Solid Ground Consulting Solid Ground Consulting has been the name we’ve long used for our national conservation team and land trust practice area. We've always received great response to it. As we started to rethink our firm's identity, it...