Category: Development
Development
PopularFundraisers Don’t Work — and 5 More Nonprofit Hot Takes, From a Philanthropy Professional
1. Philanthropy isn’t about getting funds. It’s about making the funder’s dreams come true. I help make dreams come true. That’s my job.
Read MoreBingo, Bachelor’s Degrees, and Bull: Why Your Fancy Analysis Is Missing the Point
There are only two things that count when evaluating any property. The first is the executive director, and the second, the team supporting the executive director.
Read MoreWhat Greystone Missed
While Greystone has looked at “aging-in-place” through the prism of its business interests, it can be constructive to take a wider perspective.
Read MoreLearning From Cruise Ships
Senior living is often compared with living on a cruise ship. That is a common selling point emphasized by community marketing staff.
Read MoreVillages Present Opportunity for Senior Living
There’s opportunity where many, perhaps most, now see only challenge. The difference is that villages don’t have to be sold …
Read MoreA Little Strange Rental Housing
Their community and family meld together in a kind of magical mystical kind of nirvana. This is the kind of senior living community I want to age in!
Read MoreHow the Wealthy Are Solving the Middle Market Senior Living Problem
It is a better way to think about the senior living ecosystem … we need to create better ways of serving residents.
Read MoreIs Your CFO Stuck in the Weeds?
So why aren’t more senior living operators outsourcing finance and accounting operations? That’s what QX Global Group is out to change.
Read MoreWhat If the Goal Were FUN?
So maybe there is some senior living community out there that says we are going to be the fun senior living company … and that would be amazing.
Read MoreVilla Vie Residences: 24/7 Cruise Ship Retirement
Imagine a carefree life at sea with vibrant neighbors, all of whom are adventurers like you. That imaginary life is now close to becoming a reality.
Read MoreMy Heart Is Breaking
It is a stupid system we have, where people who are extremely poor have more options available than people who have limited resources.
Read MoreMore Affordable Money??
It seems odd, but a slowing economy appears to have more positives for senior living than for many sectors.
Read MoreDo You Remember When You First Discovered …
I spend a lot of time thinking about how senior living should be a wonderful cultural icon that evokes warm, wonderful feelings in people, young and old.
Read MoreReal-World Evidence
Our American spirit is at its best when we are resilient in applying ingenuity to fashion unique solutions to thorny challenges.
Read MoreGovernment at Work? Or a Village of Citizens?
There is a popular upswelling of citizens looking to provide for themselves as neighbors. In this article, we explore this interplay of emerging cultural forces.
Read MoreThe Missing Formula to Unparalleled Success in Senior Living
Sun City Texas thrives with a vibrant community, boosting Georgetown’s economy and setting new standards for senior living.
Read MoreJob Theory Will Make You Better
The theory’s biggest single value is that it can help us better understand human behavior, even in senior living.
Read MoreThe Election and Senior Living: What Difference Does It Make?
I am writing this the morning of the first 2024 presidential debate and thinking about the impact of the November general election.
Read MoreInspired Thinking
Steve Moran, who is well-known to Foresight readers, often inspires my thinking, and a recent article of his fits the pattern.
Read MoreBoomers Schoomers
There is a widely held and accepted belief that boomers are going to disrupt the senior living industry.
Read MoreSenior Living on the Verge …
We are living in an incredibly transformational time in the senior living and aging services. Here are some highlights from the NIC Data and Analytics conference …
Read MoreGood or Bad for Senior Living?
Home sharing is primarily about helping older people who have housing stay in that housing longer by finding them roommates.
Read MoreThe Lies That We Believe: Boomers Will Fill Every Community
It is completely wrong thinking for four pragmatic reasons and for one moral/motivational reason.
Read MoreWhat Would Make You Want to Move to Senior Living?
It’s an open secret: A lot of people who work in senior living … hope they never have to move in. But what would make them want to? Anything?
Read MoreI Smiled at This: Walmart Is Killing Their Health Clinics
Walmart announced they are shutting down all of their US-based health clinics because they don’t know how to make them profitable.
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