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Written by Helen Hope Kimbrough “To embrace the challenges of our time, we must embrace complexity and work collaboratively across systems of diverse stakeholders, even and especially when the path forward is unclear.” – David Ehrlichman, author of Impact...
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The Moneyball of Social Impact
This month we are celebrating Next Stage’s ninth anniversary. Nine years?! Are you serious? It astonishes me how much time has passed. And yet in the same breath, it feels like only yesterday I was sitting at my old kitchen table, trying to figure out what it meant to...
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Next Stage Wrapped: Top Blog Posts Of 2022
End of year feels like a great time for celebration – and the perfect time to walk down memory lane. Our team took a deep dive into our content for the year to determine the top ten, most popular blog posts of the last year. We learned that many of you are...
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Eight Trends that Will Shape Social Good in 2023
With the end of the year very quickly approaching, the Next Stage team spent a few minutes imagining what 2023 will look like in the world of social good. And like the last few years, we’re predicting continuing change, a greater focus on impact measurement and a...
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The Other F-Word: Focus
Written by Haley Rafferty Focus is my 28th strength on StrengthsFinder – out of 34. It feels ironic to me, as Team Success Manager, that something you’d think would be so crucial to my job is the one thing that frustrates me the most about myself. I battle with...
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What Nonprofits Really Want for the Holidays (and all the days)
By: Susan Arrington, Digital Content & Community Manager In my 4+ months as a member of the Next Stage team, I’ve been able to get a glimpse of the inner workings of Charlotte’s emerging nonprofits: the joys, the struggles, the grind, the aspirations, the needs...
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What the Next Stage Team Is Grateful For This Year
The Next Stage team is filled with respect and gratitude for the hard work of every person in this community who is striving to build impact through their companies, nonprofits and neighborhood organizations. The work that you do truly does make the world a better...
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Backstage with Next Stage: What does the Workforce Shortage Mean For All Of Us?
85 million. That’s how many jobs will be unfilled by the year 2030 if we continue at the current pace. As Josh noted in last week’s blog, the disruption this will cause is nightmare fuel for every business across the country. That’s the bad news....
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Halloween Hangover: The Scary Realities of the Workforce Shortage
Every day is something new at Next Stage. We are in such a unique position to be proximate to the leaders and institutions wrestling with all aspects of social impact across issues like healthcare, housing, education, workforce and the environment. As a lifelong...
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What’s Next? Roundup: How these partnerships are fueling community change
What’s Next? is a roundtable series dedicated to exploring the intersection of social good. In each episode, Next Stage talks to the nonprofit and corporate changemakers who are forming innovative partnerships and fueling real community change. We love exploring these...
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Second Chances and Removing Labels
Written By Helen Hope Kimbrough “The Power to label is the power to destroy.” -Allen Frances As the Director of Community Engagement at Next Stage, I frequently have the opportunity to sit down with people from a variety of backgrounds across our community. A...
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The Path Ahead for Next Stage
Where has the year gone? Can you believe it’s already mid-October? After a couple of years that felt like time stood still as we struggled through the pandemic and remote working, 2022 has flown by for the Next Stage team. We have had our sleeves rolled up working...