Entries for January 2018

When we asked readers what would make their current strategic plans more useful, roughly one-third expressed the need to do better at keeping the strategy alive on an ongoing basis. In this post, two organizations share how they are keeping their strategies front-and-center in their daily work.

Why should nonprofits even care about business planning? What are some of the pitfalls? What are the payoffs? In this post, we talk with two of our expert team members about how business planning for nonprofits can be not only practical but powerful, delivering meaningful value in ways you might not even expect.

Lisa J. Nutter lays bare the intricacies of financing scale and the challenges inherent within funding organizations equitably in the social sector. She asks, "How do we create a more flexible, innovative framework for how money is deployed and how do we look at problems to actually target the right resources at the right time?"