The start of 2011 has brought to a close our first Handel Your Health Wellness Program Challenge and those who participated are a bit healthier for it!

I recently read an accompanying monograph to Jim Collins’ seminal work, “Good to Great,” entitled “Good to Great and the Social Sectors.” This monograph extends the principles of Good to Great from business to nonprofits of all types. Within this short monograph Collins provides some introductory thoughts on how organizations in the social sector can achieve greatness. Interestingly, while within the social sector there is often a focus on running nonprofit agencies more like a business, but this is not what Collins recommends. There are some tenets from the original principles that apply to the social sector, but overall Collins contends that business thinking is not the answer. Instead of addressing the operations of nonprofits with the ‘language of business,’ Collins challenges the social sector to embrace a ‘language of greatness.’ Over the course of several blogs I will be sharing five requirements that Collins discusses for public sector agencies to go from good to great.

Nonprofits face a variety of challenges today that relate to increased competition. Technology, and RiteTrack, is a tool that can be used to overcome these obstacles.

Update on the progress of the Handel Your Health Wellness Program including upcoming blood screening and plans for first challenges.

Casey recently organized a team of runners, many from Handel, that completed a 200 mile relay race. In the face of unexpected adversity it took extra heart to make it through.