September 30, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
Earlier this summer, we examined how organizations can move beyond crisis messaging and shift toward approaches that center community strength and invite genuine participation. We then explored how to create compelling call-to-action campaigns and the concept of...
September 7, 2025 | Resource Development
Everywhere you look these days in the world of nonprofits, there’s a focus on threats to the sector. The optimism about the direction of social good that was so prominent one year ago has been replaced by a strong thread of pragmatism. “This isn’t going to be pretty.”...
August 12, 2025 | Communications
Last month, we explored how nonprofits can move beyond reactionary messaging by sharpening their value proposition and communicating with greater intentionality. We argued that it’s time to stop speaking into the void and instead engage with purpose. This month, we’re...
July 7, 2025 | Communications
When everyone is asking for help, lasting impact comes from inviting participation rather than requesting rescue. A wave of financial instability is building across the nonprofit sector. Policy changes are threatening major funding streams, and health and human...
June 26, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
In recent years, the governance landscape for nonprofits has become increasingly complex. Between political turmoil and policy change, economic uncertainty, shifting funding patterns, and evolving community needs, nonprofit boards and executive teams are navigating...
June 10, 2025 | Nonprofit Leadership
For many nonprofits, June brings the end of the organization’s fiscal year. It’s a time when organizational leaders are deep in the process of approving budgets, planning summer retreats, and preparing for a new set of challenges in the year to come. This...