January 11, 2018 | Emerging Organizations
by Josh Jacobson Today is the official launch of CULTIVATE and boy are we excited! I can’t properly put into words how great it feels to know that an idea we had as the Next Stage team, something we’ve pined for and into which we poured so much sweat equity, is...
December 6, 2017 | Emerging Organizations
Charlotte, NC (December 6, 2017) — Next Stage Consulting today announced the selection of four (4) nonprofit organizations for participation in the inaugural 2018 cohort of CULTIVATE, an incubator designed to provide expert strategic and relational supports to...
October 18, 2017 | Emerging Organizations
The response to our announcement of CULTIVATE couldn’t be better! We are excited by the potential this program has for speeding up the growth curve for a high-impact emerging nonprofit. Based on the feedback we’ve received, we thought we would share this...
October 4, 2017 | Emerging Organizations
Charlotte, NC (October 4, 2017) — Next Stage Consulting today announced the launch of CULTIVATE, an incubator for 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations designed to provide expert strategic and relational supports to emerging social cause organizations based in...
September 28, 2017 | Thought Leadership
by Josh Jacobson The Glass is Half Empty: My Humble Beginnings with the Blue Chips When I launched Next Stage in late 2013, the stated goal was to work with “small-to-midsize organizations” looking to “get to the next stage.” The reason for this focus was as much a...
September 8, 2017 | Talent
Tags: CEO, Charlotte, Search,
Position Description: President & CEO Overview Client: Charlotte Museum of History Location: 3500 Shamrock Drive, Charlotte, NC 28215 Founded: 1969 Reports To: Board of Trustees Charlotte Museum of History — Organizational Description Mission The Charlotte Museum...
August 28, 2017 | Thought Leadership
by Caylin Viales “Importing” nonprofit organizations can be a tricky thing to talk about. In fact, I don’t even really like using the word “importing” to describe nonprofit scale. It evokes a mental picture of a cargo ship stacked with hundreds of identical shipping...
August 18, 2017 | Thought Leadership
by Josh Jacobson The alternative title of this post could be “Sustainable Growth – Is It an Oxymoron?” (Answer: No, but it ain’t easy.) A lesson learned early in my consulting career came in the form of a longtime board member for a stable, no-frills human services...
August 11, 2017 | Emerging Organizations
Tags: Charlotte, Entrepreneur, Nonprofit, Start-up,
by Josh Jacobson Last year, I overheard a conversation at work. A friend of mine was asked by someone I didn’t know to name some of the prominent social entrepreneurs working in Charlotte. Without hesitation, a list of names were rattled out. The people mentioned...
August 2, 2017 | Thought Leadership
Tags: Charlotte, Nonprofit, Philanthropy,
by Josh Jacobson This post launches a weekly series through mid-September outlining a new way to think about stewarding nonprofits in the Charlotte region – the Community Social Impact Portfolio. A couple years ago, I decided to try my hand at investing. My wife and I...
July 13, 2017 | Talent
Position Description: Executive Director Overview Client: Charlotte Bilingual Preschool Location: 6300 Highland Ave, Charlotte, NC 28215 Founded: 1999 Reports To: Board of Directors Charlotte Bilingual Preschool — Organizational Description Mission Charlotte...
June 19, 2017 | Thought Leadership
By Hannah Grannemann Josh and I started this blog series in April 2017 with a few goals: Bring attention to the work on social mobility already being done by artists and arts organizations in Charlotte. (one example here) Raise awareness of the arts as a way to have a...
