The Next Stage Team is excited to welcome Brooke Lackey who will be joining us as our summer community voice fellow starting on Monday June 5, 2023. As Next Stage has worked with nonprofits and corporate social responsibility teams the past eight years, our reputation...

By Helen Hope Kimbrough “The best questions get to the heart of the matter.” – David Ehrlichman, Impact Networks A common first question when meeting someone is “What do you do for a living?” Responses range from reflections on a journey as to how someone got to...

Over the last few months, we’ve talked a lot about the importance of centering community voice and building trust. But what is the cost of mistrust? Lack of trust for an organization, project or community comes at a huge cost. Cultivating authentic, long-term...

Written by Helen Hope Kimbrough We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. – Cesar...

By Helen Hope Kimbrough “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”  – Maya Angelou   Last week, Josh Jacobson talked about the evolution of Next Stage’s service lines with a focus on...