June 7, 2018 | Thought Leadership
Tags: Client Partnerships, CULTIVATE, Next Stage, Rebranded, Thought Leadership,
by Josh Jacobson We are proud to announce that our firm is rebranding… err, sort of… Going forward, we will be known simply as Next Stage, dropping the word Consulting. Our new(ish) logo is above. In truth, I never thought I would become a consultant. When I moved to...
September 28, 2017 | Thought Leadership
by Josh Jacobson The Glass is Half Empty: My Humble Beginnings with the Blue Chips When I launched Next Stage in late 2013, the stated goal was to work with “small-to-midsize organizations” looking to “get to the next stage.” The reason for this focus was as much a...
August 28, 2017 | Thought Leadership
by Caylin Viales “Importing” nonprofit organizations can be a tricky thing to talk about. In fact, I don’t even really like using the word “importing” to describe nonprofit scale. It evokes a mental picture of a cargo ship stacked with hundreds of identical shipping...
August 18, 2017 | Thought Leadership
by Josh Jacobson The alternative title of this post could be “Sustainable Growth – Is It an Oxymoron?” (Answer: No, but it ain’t easy.) A lesson learned early in my consulting career came in the form of a longtime board member for a stable, no-frills human services...
August 2, 2017 | Thought Leadership
Tags: Charlotte, Nonprofit, Philanthropy,
by Josh Jacobson This post launches a weekly series through mid-September outlining a new way to think about stewarding nonprofits in the Charlotte region – the Community Social Impact Portfolio. A couple years ago, I decided to try my hand at investing. My wife and I...
June 19, 2017 | Thought Leadership
By Hannah Grannemann Josh and I started this blog series in April 2017 with a few goals: Bring attention to the work on social mobility already being done by artists and arts organizations in Charlotte. (one example here) Raise awareness of the arts as a way to have a...
