July 6, 2021 | Corporate Impact
One look at the news and you’ll quickly see one of business’ biggest current challenges – hiring. So today we want to share three ways businesses can use social good to close the hiring gap. Just before the start of the pandemic, unfilled jobs in the United States...
June 28, 2021 | Corporate Impact
by Josh Jacobson We released the Social Good Report 2021: Profit & Purpose earlier this month and the feedback thus far has been super strong. As we hope you have had a chance to read, we highlight the many different ways nonprofits can be “vendors of social good”...
June 21, 2021 | Communications
by Janet Ervin In 2018, the Edelman Brand Report documented a trend that is rapidly becoming one of the most important brand engagement factors across the globe – the rise of the ‘belief-driven’ buyer. More than 64% of consumers now make buying decisions based on a...
June 14, 2021 | Values & Culture
by Josh Jacobson, CEO, Next Stage “Employee engagement” is a big deal for businesses of all shapes and sizes. But what does employee engagement strategy even mean and how is social good playing a role? As outlined in our recently-published Social Good Report: Profit...
June 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
by Josh Jacobson By now, it is my hope that you have had a chance to download and skim our recent publication The Social Good Report: Profit & Purpose, our first annual community study focused on themes impacting social good in the Queen City. We have received so...
June 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
My name is Jacob Hertzinger and I am the 2021 Summer Research Fellow at Next Stage. First off, I am a freshman political science student at Davidson College on the pre-law track as well as a Bonner scholar. I enjoy politics, podcasts, learning languages and gardening....
June 3, 2021 | Corporate Impact
For the last year, Next Stage has studied the ways that businesses and nonprofits are intersecting in the Charlotte community. Our team studied a range of business and social good trends, interviewed more than 70 corporate and nonprofit leaders and conducted a study...
June 1, 2021 | Talent
by Josh Jacobson It is a huge week for us at Next Stage in a number of ways. This morning, our team is gathering at Community Matters Cafe for our first in-person staff meeting in more than a year. It is a chance for some of us to meet our colleague Candice Latham for...
April 5, 2021 | Communications
by Janet Ervin Next Stage recently launched a brand-new initiative, exploring the ways that nonprofits and businesses intersect. We think that it’s time to reconsider the ways that private sector and nonprofits work together – to ‘rewire’ social good and form creative...
March 29, 2021 | Emerging Organizations
By Caylin Haldeman Last Friday at noon, dozens of leaders from the local social good community gathered together virtually to celebrate the graduates of the 2020 CULTIVATE cohort. One of our favorite events every year, the annual CULTIVATE graduation is an opportunity...
March 23, 2021 | Talent
Position Description: Director, Nonprofit Services Company: Next Stage Location: Remote within Charlotte Metro Reports To: Managing Director About Next Stage Next Stage was founded in 2014 by Managing Director...
March 16, 2021 | Thought Leadership
by Josh Jacobson The state of our community right now is heartbreaking. Across the board, people who entered the pandemic in poverty have been most adversely affected. I’ve heard it said that “nonprofits are a lagging indicator,” and if we think it will take 3-5 years...
