As the importance of bold grantmaking continues to grow, business planning offers a tool for funders and nonprofits to inform decision making and set the stage for success.

Increasingly, nonprofits and funders are turning to business planning to help them turn their strategies into action. This post, the first in a series, explores how organizations can use business planning to adapt to sector trends, engage funder partners, and achieve success.

We recently interviewed Onuka Ibe, Senior Consultant, about the path that brought him to consulting and what he sees as some of the most important the issues, challenges, and opportunities that nonprofits face today.

Leadership is full of paradoxes, and other takeaways from interviews with over 500 corporate CEOs. How do these findings resonate for nonprofit leaders, or how is nonprofit leadership different?

If you have heard this sentiment before, or if you share it yourself, perhaps it's just time to try a different approach.

Organizational assessment is a critical component of capacity building, but different approaches present different advantages and limitations. Before investing time and resources, it is important to consider these relative to your specific needs. Here, we compare three common types of organizational assessment to help you in your decision making.

In this new post, we're excited to introduce Lara Jakubowski, Senior Consultant. Here, she shares a little about her passion for the sector, thoughts on trends impacting nonprofit sustainability, and the personal pursuits that connect her to family and community.

Nonprofit leaders have four principal levers for moving their organizations forward, but when any one of these receives too much, or to little, attention or prioritization, the organization cannot perform at its best.

A collection of resources to spur fresh thinking for nonprofits, federations, and foundations.

How can nonprofits successfully navigate the transition from a traditional direct-service role to advocate for systems-level change? This post describes key conditions for effective advocacy.