Leadership and Management
Enhance your nonprofit leadership skills with practical advice and expert insights on a wide range of leadership and management topics.
From strategic planning and decision-making to team building and organizational development, discover the resources you need to inspire and empower your team.
Nonprofit Mergers & Collaboration
Best Thing Ever? Or the Swan Song of a Dream? See how one nonprofit merged with another and learn concrete steps nonprofit EDs and boards can use in their decision-making process.
The Regenerative Principle in Practice for Nonprofit Management
Regenerative thinking is an ideal approach to reorient our perspective from ‘What’s in it for me’ to asking ‘How can we all benefit?’
Egg, Omelet, or Frying Pan: Exploring the Relationship between Business & Altruism in the Independent Sector
Entities that do the work of meeting human needs are called nonprofit organizations, but altruistic business enterprise might fit better.
A Beginner’s Guide to Lobbying for Nonprofits
Many nonprofit leaders don’t know that lobbying is 100% legal for nonprofits. Here are four steps nonprofits can take now to get smarter about lobbying: accept the importance of lobbying, get the facts, meet with officials, and join a trade association.
From Transition to Transformation: Key Lessons from the Pandemic for Nonprofits
Key lessons from the pandemic that can help other nonprofit leaders proactively anticipate the next big jolt.
The Secret to Continuous Innovation
Everyone wants to innovate, but few of us have the time and energy. But what if there was a way to add value despite limited resources?
None of Us is Getting Out Alive: A Guide to Executive Succession Planning
The work you do now to plan for executive succession could mean the difference between whether your organization withers or thrives later.
Reproducing Reproducers: Creating a Legacy of Leadership Succession
If you are not creating and investing in the right system, you are putting your nonprofit’s long-term sustainability at risk.
Smart Growth: How to Expand Your Nonprofit’s Programs While Resisting Temptations
Do what works best to advance the mission statement of your nonprofit. At the end of the day, the juice has to be worth the squeeze.
Setting Organizational Goals: Does your team know what to do?
In the day-to-day firefighting of the nonprofit world, quantitative goals can lessen the chance for misunderstandings.