February 21, 2023 | Communications
After last week’s marketing-focused blog How important is marketing to the work of social impact?, we heard from many of you that this is a topic that is front of mind for nearly everyone! And while the big picture challenges are important, the day to day...
February 14, 2023 | Communications
The importance of marketing is a topic I’ve written on in the past for The Biscuit, so I won’t rehash the central premise – institutions advancing social impact (particularly nonprofits) tend to spend entirely too little on marketing and communication. This is due in...
February 7, 2023 | Values & Culture
Written by Haley Rafferty, Team Success Manager A good bereavement policy is sort of like having an emergency kit in your home. You feel a lot more at peace knowing it’s there, but you hope you never have to use it. Next Stage recently gave our employee handbook a...
January 31, 2023 | Thought Leadership
Written by: Helen Hope Kimbrough A system is defined as a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized framework or method. – Oxford Dictionary Tyre Nichols, a young soul at the age of 29, was brutally murdered by law...
January 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
January 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
December 20, 2022 | Thought Leadership
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...
December 13, 2022 | Thought Leadership
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...
December 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
November 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
November 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
November 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
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....
