May 12, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
In 2025, nonprofit chief executives are being asked to do more with less — and to keep staff motivated through it all. The workforce landscape is shifting, and while mission remains a powerful draw, uncertainty for the nonprofit business model is creating burnout and...
May 12, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
At a moment when social good work feels more critical than ever, many leaders are wrestling with an increasingly urgent question: How do we keep our teams motivated, supported, and committed in the face of rising pressure and uncertainty? Workplace culture isn’t just...
April 22, 2025 | Corporate Impact
In the intricate landscape of nonprofit support, some of the most critical needs often go unnoticed. This is the story of how one innovative grant helped transform a dance organization’s future by embracing a radical approach to philanthropy. Traditional grantmaking...
April 8, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
At Next Stage, we’re always listening for the signals beneath the noise. And right now, those signals are blaring. We recently surveyed nonprofit and social good leaders to better understand how today’s political and economic shifts are impacting organizations on the...
April 2, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
For many in the social good space, the world feels upside down. That’s why we’ve launched a new survey series — to explore the uncertainty and turn it into something useful. Our first survey asked leaders from across the social good ecosystem to weigh in on the...
March 7, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
The nonprofit and social impact sector is bracing for a new kind of crisis — one driven not by a sudden disaster, but by the slow erosion of federal funding for health, human services, and conservation efforts. The trickle-down effect will be widespread, creating a...
February 7, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
The world of social good is a bit upside down right now. The federal spending freeze announced early last week set in motion a flurry of communications from current and past Next Stage clients, all seeking clarity on what it meant and how to navigate it. While the...
January 13, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
It’s a new year, and that means new opportunities for your organization to build a strategic roadmap. Strategic planning is Next Stage’s cornerstone service line. It’s a process we’ve guided more than 100 organizations through—from nonprofits and...
December 10, 2024 | Corporate Impact
It’s December which means the return of a Next Stage tradition—our annual look-ahead to the social good trends for the coming year! Looking back at our predictions in 2022 and 2023, we feel good about how our previous forecasts unfolded—from recognizing the growing...
December 10, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Hey there, social good enthusiasts! It’s time for our annual blog roundup, and wow, what a year it’s been! In 2024, we poured our hearts into 49 blog posts that dove deep into the topics that matter most to our community. This year’s top 10 blogs...
November 20, 2024 | Nonprofit Leadership
As the post-election dust settles, we wake in a world still deeply divided. Division and polarization continue to permeate our society, creating significant barriers to positive social and economic change. It may feel as though this level of division is a uniquely...
October 16, 2024 | Nonprofit Leadership
Last year, Next Stage proudly partnered with the Institute for Sport and Social Justice (‘the Institute’) on an expansive strategic planning engagement. The project ranked among Next Stage’s most visionary planning efforts, with the Institute’s leaders staking out a...
