by Josh Jacobson | May 28, 2024 | Community Voice
“Welcome to our webinar. We’re so glad you could join us!” This quarter, Helen Hope Kimbrough and I are leading a series of free webinars on the topic of community voice. Specifically, we are outlining how the process of listening to the constituents closest to where...
by Josh Jacobson | Apr 25, 2024 | Communications, Community Voice, Nonprofit Leadership, Planning & Implementation, Thought Leadership
Over the past few months, Next Stage has been developing a new approach to advancing social good — offering workshops and learning management for professionals on a range of topics including movement-building brand marketing, effective forms of collaboration and...
by Josh Jacobson | Feb 6, 2024 | Nonprofit Leadership, Thought Leadership, Values & Culture
Tomorrow night, we look forward to seeing so many of our friends and colleagues at our 10th Anniversary Celebration event where we will also reveal the selected organization for The UnFundable Project grant. This milestone has made me reflective of late – on where...
by Josh Jacobson | Jan 16, 2024 | Communications, Planning & Implementation, Values & Culture
This month, Next Stage turns 10 years old! What began at my kitchen table has grown into something far more ambitious. As we launch the second decade of our company, I’m excited to share that ambition with you today. Last month, we formally approved a three-year...
by Josh Jacobson | Oct 3, 2023 | Thought Leadership
Last week we did a thing – we announced The UnFundable Project, an opportunity for a Mecklenburg County nonprofit to receive a $10,000 allocation from Next Stage for a project “that would typically struggle to receive investment in a traditional grantmaking process.”...
