A Three-Dimensional Approach to Revenue Planning
As nonprofits reimagine their budgets, boards and staff should consider a balance between diversity, flexibility, and reliability.
Content Type: Insights
12 Urgent Financial Action Steps for Nonprofits: A 2025 Checklist
In the wake of executive orders and a federal grants freeze, we offer action steps for the first phase of extended financial uncertainty.
The Shifting Landscape of American Generosity
This Generosity Commission report aims to understand the world of giving as it exists today, with all its contradictions.
Community Influences: Understanding Nonprofit Markets
How executives can segment the market, develop shared understanding of relevant forces, and prioritize pressing market-based challenges.
Changes in Nonprofit Compensation Rules for January 2025 — and the Need for Even More Change This Year
This year, we will be keeping an eye on issues that affect the nonprofit workforce, starting by reviewing changes to how workers are paid.
Nonprofit Capacity Building: A Multiple-Capitals Approach
A discussion of nonprofit capacity building through the lens of accruing a variety of different kinds of capital.
Who Are Stakeholders and Why Do They Matter?
A stakeholder is a person (or entity) who can affect and/or be affected by your organization—who, in other words, has a stake in your work.
Social Media Capital for Nonprofits: How to Accumulate It, Convert It, and Spend It
The 2010s saw the advent of social media capital, which can be converted or expended toward strategic organizational outcomes.
Structural Embeddedness and the Liability of Newness Among Nonprofit Organizations
What circumstances lead newer nonprofit organizations to close down more frequently than longer-established ones?
A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Business Model: Exploring the Virtuous Circle of Societal Value Creation and Capture by Nonprofit Organizations
For nonprofit organizations, societal value is understood not as a support to economic value but as an end in itself.