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.
The MONGO Dilemma: To Collaborate or Not?
Many nonprofits overlook the opportunity to partner with existing organizations in favor of creating their own programs and solutions.
5 Ways Nonprofits Can Balance Creativity and Structure
Learn how balancing creativity with structure can help your nonprofit foster innovation — without compromising your mission and goals.
From Startup to Success: Guiding Nonprofits with Six Core Principles of Improvement
Six core principles, drawn from STEM education, can help new nonprofits assemble a diverse team, raise funds successfully, and learn to use the gathered resources for strategic growth.
How U.S.-based Nonprofits Can Deliver Disaster Relief Abroad: A Tigrayan Case Study
How to deliver on-the-ground relief to internally displaced persons including formation of a nonprofit, fundraising, partnerships, and more.
How to Implement Strategic Inquiry at Your Nonprofit in 5 Steps
Five steps nonprofits can take to implement strategic inquiry including building board support, listening to community, research, broadening networks, and sharing the journey.
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.