October 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
When my career path from pharmacist to legislative analyst to lawyer to nonprofit leader comes up in conversation, I’m often asked why so many different directions? My reply is that each career decision represents to me a step in the same direction. That’s...
October 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Next Stage team is thrilled to announce that community health thought leader Randy Jordan is joining our team as Chief Advisor, Impact for Health. Randy is a nationally known community health expert and a passionate and thoughtful leader, committed to...
October 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
“It’s not polite to talk about politics, money or religion.” Like most Americans, this was the advice I was given growing up. It was meant as advice to help avoid awkward conflict and it sent a clear message – some topics are too personal to discuss openly. For many...
September 13, 2022 | Thought Leadership
Community is a hot topic these days. After years of pandemic separation and responding to crisis after crisis, we’re seeing more energy and interest in collaboration than ever before. When we launched Profit & Purpose last year, we noted that nonprofits and...
September 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Wow! That was awesome!” My colleague Helen Hope Kimbrough and I spend a lot of time together working on behalf of our nonprofit clients. She leads our community voice work, surfacing insights and wisdom from community stakeholders, which we in turn summarize and...
August 30, 2022 | Emerging Organizations
This week we’re back with another episode of Backstage with Next Stage featuring our newest team member, Susan Arrington! In this episode, Candice, Susan and Josh talk about the newest Cultivate: Emerging Leaders release – the Programming module. The...
August 15, 2022 | Emerging Organizations
by Helen Hope Kimbrough We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond. – Gwendolyn Brooks While in the office one day, I ran into one of our Cultivate alumni who happens to be a founder of an emerging nonprofit...
August 2, 2022 | Corporate Impact
ESG is everywhere right now – but what does it all mean? In this week’s video blog conversation, Candice, Janet and Josh break down the ESG basics, why every company should pay attention to their impact strategy and one way any business can get started. Whether...
July 26, 2022 | Corporate Impact
How does your business determine how to make social impact investments? There is no single way that companies choose to express the public-facing ‘S’ in their ESG strategy. Some companies choose to align around a particular cause or passion. Others largely leave it up...
July 19, 2022 | Corporate Impact
“Woke corporations.” I suppose it was only a matter of time. Perhaps it was an inevitability. Paradigm shifts like this are bound to disrupt the status quo for many, and so it is only natural that this one would result in some unhappy people. ESG has ‘arrived’ as a...
July 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Next Stage team couldn’t be more excited about the addition of Susan Arrington as our brand-new Digital Content & Community Manager! Susan comes highly recommended as a collaborative community builder and an expert content strategist who is passionate about...
July 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Written by Miles Charles Last Monday, part of the Next Stage team was fortunate enough to take part in a self-guided walking tour of the historic Brooklyn neighborhood, a bustling African American neighborhood once located in what is now uptown Charlotte’s Second Ward...
