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About Suzanne
- “In the Know” – Skoll World Forum 2013
- (Almost) Free Talent: Building a Next-Generation Nonprofit Workforce with Internships, Job Shadowing and Class Projects
- 3 Olympic Leadership Lessons
- 3 Pieces of Wisdom from the Greek Drama
- 4 Takeaways from the First 40 Years
- 4 Trends from the Aspen Ideas Festival to Spark Social Change
- 9 Lessons from a Founding Father of Social Enterprise
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2013
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2014
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2015
- Are Women Better at Social Enterprise?
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Being a “Bridge Out of Poverty” for Our Employees and Community
- Beyond Housing 2014 LIVE
- Book Review: Make Waves
- Building Social Enterprises
- Changemaker Top 10 Playlist
- Community Development is a Team Sport
- Connecting Disciplines: Bridging Nonprofit and For-Profit Worlds
- Dog Days of Summer 2014
- Dog Days of Summer 2015
- Duke – The Fuqua School of Business Alumni Q&A with Suzanne Smith
- Everyone Can Be a Changemaker
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2019
- Hot Topics in the Social Sector, Podcast-style
- How to Build a (Social) Revolution: Hacks from Tech Innovators – Part 1
- How to Build a (Social) Revolution: Hacks from Tech Innovators – Part 2
- In Case You Missed It
- Key Takeaways & Trends from Giving USA 2020 Results
- Lean In for the Social Sector: 3 Ways We Hold Ourselves Back
- Learning in the Age of the Coronavirus
- Lessons on Scaling Wide from America’s Cowboy Leader, Hugh O’Brian
- May the Productivity Force Be with You
- On Being a Social Entrepreneur: A Decade of Lessons Learned
- Pearls of Wisdom: Advice to Rising Social Entrepreneurs
- Social Enterprise Alliance Summit LIVE
- Social Impact Exchange LIVE
- The 2013 Social Enterprise Olympics
- The Times They Are A-Changin’: “The Mission-Driven Venture” Shares Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs
- The Woman in the Arena
- Things We Can Learn from Gladwell’s David and Goliath
- Top 5 Takeaways from Aspen Ideas Festival: Spotlight Health
- Tricks of the Trade for Social Sector Job Seekers
- Walk the Line, SEA-Style
- What Did We Learn from the Giving USA Report?
- What I Learned from John McCain
- Wisdom from Southeast Asia
Advocacy/Policy Change
- (Almost) Free Wi-Fi for Nonprofit Clients
- 3 Steps to Start Your Nonprofit’s Advocacy Journey
- 4 Trends from the Aspen Ideas Festival to Spark Social Change
- 5 Ways to Take Social Entrepreneurship to Scale/Dear Mr. President
- 7 Actions Nonprofits Can Take to Be Anti-Racist Organizations
- Can Nonprofits Lobby? The Answer is YES!
- Celebrating a Sweet New Year & Jewish Innovators
- Do You Get Lost in Projects? Secrets from Tech Titans
- Everyone Counts: Why Census 2020 Must be a High Priority for Nonprofits
- Faith and Charity: How Faith-Based Organizations and Nonprofits Are Working Together to Solve Social Issues
- Fast Facts on Federal COVID-19 Stimulus for Nonprofits
- Helping First-Generation College Students Reach for the Stars
- Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2021
- How Can Nelson Mandela Help You Put Your Dreams into Action?
- How Nonprofit Leaders Can Ensure Every Part of Their Organization Advances Social Change
- How Nonprofits & Social Entrepreneurs Can Answer the President’s Call to Action
- How Nonprofits Can Sharpen Their Focus on Mental Health
- Is this the Era of the Mayor?
- Keep Calm and Plan On! Scenario Planning Lessons from the British Royal Wedding
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Place is the Word: Innovative Placemaking
- Prescription from the Pulpit: What Pope Francis Teaches Us About Change
- Shaping Better Policy: How Advocacy Adds Value to the Social Sector
- Solving Social Issues in the Biden Era
- Tag…You’re It!
- The Five C’s of an Effective Policymaker Meeting
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Opportunity Zones
- The New Tax Law: How It Will Impact Your Nonprofit Organization and 5 Solutions to Mitigate Your Risk
- The Woman in the Arena
- Two for the Price of One: Two-Generation Approaches
- What I Learned from John McCain
- What is Community and How Do We Measure It?
- Will Social Entrepreneurship Survive the Trump Era?
Annual Traditions
- 2013 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Nonprofit Customers and Donors
- 2014 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Building Better Nonprofits
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 2017 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Focus to Entrepreneurial Thinking in Nonprofits
- 2018 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Collaboration
- 2019 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Mindset
- 2020 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Technology
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 New Year’s Resolutions for the Social Sector
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2013
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2014
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2015
- Celebrating Fan Favorites and TrendSpotters
- Charitable Giving Trends from Giving USA 2021
- Dog Days of Summer 2014
- Dog Days of Summer 2015
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holiday Season 2019
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holiday Season 2020
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2013
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2014
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2015
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2016
- Favorite Inspirations: Top 10 Life Hacks for a More Peaceful 2018
- Happy Friendsgiving
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2019
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2021
- Reasons Social TrendSpotter is Thankful
- Reasons We Are Thankful
- Reasons We Are Thankful
- Reasons We Are Thankful for YOU
- Reasons We Are Thankful this Year
- Reasons We Are Thankful this Year
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2018
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2019
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2020
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2013
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2014
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2015
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- Why We Should Live by the “Cowboy Code”
Board Development
- Boards Behaving Badly
- Corporate Social Responsibility is Getting an Upgrade – for Good
- Five Strategies for Rethinking Revenue & Development
- How to Build a Successful Nonprofit Board
- How to Build an Inclusive Board
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Q&A: 3 Tips for Knocking Your Next Retreat Out of the Ballpark
- Snag Talent with a Bit O’ Irish Luck
- The Color of Money
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Roller Coaster Ride of Nonprofit Governance in 2020
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
Book Reviews
- 9 Lessons from a Founding Father of Social Enterprise
- Being a “Bridge Out of Poverty” for Our Employees and Community
- Book Review: Make Waves
- Community Development is a Team Sport
- How to Build a (Social) Revolution: Hacks from Tech Innovators – Part 1
- How to Build a (Social) Revolution: Hacks from Tech Innovators – Part 2
- Key Takeaways & Trends from Giving USA 2020 Results
- Lean In for the Social Sector: 3 Ways We Hold Ourselves Back
- The Times They Are A-Changin’: “The Mission-Driven Venture” Shares Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs
- Things We Can Learn from Gladwell’s David and Goliath
- What Did We Learn from the Giving USA Report?
Buffet
Business Planning
- 3 Smart Tactics to Start Your Journey into Market Research
- 5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Organization’s Performance Through Core Values
- 5 Tips to Hit a Social Business Pitch out of the Park
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- A Check-Up for Your Nonprofit: Avoiding Organizational Decline or Failure
- Adding to Our Repertoire: Social TrendSpotter Launches New TED-Style Videos on Trending Topics in the Social Sector
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2014
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2015
- Are Nonprofit Business Plans Dead?
- Back to the Future: The Social Sector in 2045
- Can Your Nonprofit Manage a Crisis? Follow These 5 Tips to Hold onto Your Halo in a Crisis
- Channel Your Inner Oprah to Discover the Most Effective Market Research Tools
- Creating Win-Wins with Nonprofit Feasibility Assessments
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- Fast Facts on Federal COVID-19 Stimulus for Nonprofits
- From Planning to Action: Action Plans Help You Get Things Done After Your Strategic Plan
- Haven’t Got a Clue How to Start Your Market Research? Try Secondary Research First
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- How Fatherhood Programs Are Helping the Next Generation
- How the Yanny vs. Laurel Debate Can Help Us Practice Conflict Resolution Skills in the Social Sector
- How to Land the Big Fish: Try a Nonprofit Prospectus
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- If You Can Write a Grant, You CAN Write a Nonprofit Business Plan
- Impact Investing Series 1 of 2: 3 Greatest Challenges to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Impact Investing Series 2 of 2: 3 Greatest Opportunities to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Is Pay for Success Making an Impact?
- Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of Neglecting Vision-Mission-Values?
- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Advice for Nonprofits on Accepting Gifts of Real Estate
- Looking for the Perfect Match? 4 Nonprofit Interview Tips for Hiring the Right Employees
- Minding the Gap with Dashboards
- Not-So-Scary Social Media Steps
- Passing the Torch to a New Generation: Why Succession Planning is Crucial to the Social Sector
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Stand Out From the Crowd: Develop a Unique Value Proposition
- Step-by-Step Guide to Create a Successful Social Enterprise
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Perfect Recipe for a Social Business Model
- The Social Sector’s F-Word – Failure
- They’re Engaged (Our Employees, That Is)!
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Top Nonprofit Marketing Mistakes That Cost Money
- Top Questions on Business Planning
- Top Questions on Social Enterprise
- Top Questions on Strategic Planning
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Risk Management in the Social Sector
- Which Strategic Plan is Right for You?
- Who is Your Greatest Competition? How Your Family Tree Can Help You Uncover (Sometimes Surprising) Answers
Business Planning
- 3 Smart Tactics to Start Your Journey into Market Research
- 5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Organization’s Performance Through Core Values
- 5 Tips to Hit a Social Business Pitch out of the Park
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- A Check-Up for Your Nonprofit: Avoiding Organizational Decline or Failure
- Adding to Our Repertoire: Social TrendSpotter Launches New TED-Style Videos on Trending Topics in the Social Sector
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2014
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2015
- Are Nonprofit Business Plans Dead?
- Back to the Future: The Social Sector in 2045
- Can Your Nonprofit Manage a Crisis? Follow These 5 Tips to Hold onto Your Halo in a Crisis
- Celebrating a Sweet New Year & Jewish Innovators
- Channel Your Inner Oprah to Discover the Most Effective Market Research Tools
- Creating Win-Wins with Nonprofit Feasibility Assessments
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- Fast Facts on Federal COVID-19 Stimulus for Nonprofits
- From Planning to Action: Action Plans Help You Get Things Done After Your Strategic Plan
- Haven’t Got a Clue How to Start Your Market Research? Try Secondary Research First
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- How Fatherhood Programs Are Helping the Next Generation
- How the Yanny vs. Laurel Debate Can Help Us Practice Conflict Resolution Skills in the Social Sector
- How to Land the Big Fish: Try a Nonprofit Prospectus
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- If You Can Write a Grant, You CAN Write a Nonprofit Business Plan
- Impact Investing Series 1 of 2: 3 Greatest Challenges to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Impact Investing Series 2 of 2: 3 Greatest Opportunities to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Is Pay for Success Making an Impact?
- Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of Neglecting Vision-Mission-Values?
- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Advice for Nonprofits on Accepting Gifts of Real Estate
- Looking for the Perfect Match? 4 Nonprofit Interview Tips for Hiring the Right Employees
- Minding the Gap with Dashboards
- Not-So-Scary Social Media Steps
- Passing the Torch to a New Generation: Why Succession Planning is Crucial to the Social Sector
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Stand Out From the Crowd: Develop a Unique Value Proposition
- Step-by-Step Guide to Create a Successful Social Enterprise
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Perfect Recipe for a Social Business Model
- The Social Sector’s F-Word – Failure
- They’re Engaged (Our Employees, That Is)!
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Top Nonprofit Marketing Mistakes That Cost Money
- Top Questions on Business Planning
- Top Questions on Social Enterprise
- Top Questions on Strategic Planning
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Risk Management in the Social Sector
- Which Strategic Plan is Right for You?
- Who is Your Greatest Competition? How Your Family Tree Can Help You Uncover (Sometimes Surprising) Answers
Career Advice
- (Almost) Free Talent: Building a Next-Generation Nonprofit Workforce with Internships, Job Shadowing and Class Projects
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2014
- Are Women Better at Social Enterprise?
- Building Social Enterprises
- Connecting Disciplines: Bridging Nonprofit and For-Profit Worlds
- Duke – The Fuqua School of Business Alumni Q&A with Suzanne Smith
- Hot Topics in the Social Sector, Podcast-style
- May the Productivity Force Be with You
- On Being a Social Entrepreneur: A Decade of Lessons Learned
- Pearls of Wisdom: Advice to Rising Social Entrepreneurs
- Tricks of the Trade for Social Sector Job Seekers
Client Flow/Design Thinking
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 Steps to Make Evaluation Plans Easy
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Do You Get Lost in Projects? Secrets from Tech Titans
- Secrets from the Fortune 500 – Design Thinking Hacks for Nonprofits
- The Perfect Recipe for a Social Business Model
Collaborate
- (Almost) Free Wi-Fi for Nonprofit Clients
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2017 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Focus to Entrepreneurial Thinking in Nonprofits
- 2018 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Collaboration
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 Olympic Leadership Lessons
- 3 Steps to Start Your Nonprofit’s Advocacy Journey
- 4 Trends from the Aspen Ideas Festival to Spark Social Change
- 5 Leadership Lessons from Coach K
- 5 Things Every Social Impact Leader Needs to Know Before Their Next Hire
- 5 Tips for Corporate Sponsorship in the Face of COVID-19
- 5 Ways to Show Your Love to Nonprofit Donors & Volunteers
- 5 Ways to Take Social Entrepreneurship to Scale/Dear Mr. President
- 6 Virtual Fundraising Event Tips to Combat “Zoom Fatigue”
- 7 Actions Nonprofits Can Take to Be Anti-Racist Organizations
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Are Nonprofits in the Customer Service Business?
- Are Performance Reviews Going Extinct? 6 Tips for Making Nonprofit Reviews More Effective
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Being a “Bridge Out of Poverty” for Our Employees and Community
- Beyond Housing 2014 LIVE
- Boards Behaving Badly
- Bringing Impact Investing Back to Earth
- Can Nonprofits Lobby? The Answer is YES!
- Can We Really Cut Child Poverty in Half?
- Can Your Nonprofit Manage a Crisis? Follow These 5 Tips to Hold onto Your Halo in a Crisis
- Celebrating a Sweet New Year & Jewish Innovators
- Changemaker Top 10 Playlist
- Collaboration Q&A
- Do Competitions Help or Hinder Social Enterprises?
- Do You Get Lost in Projects? Secrets from Tech Titans
- Do’s and Don’ts of Remote Leadership
- Etiquette for Effective and Enjoyable Online Meetings
- Everyone Counts: Why Census 2020 Must be a High Priority for Nonprofits
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- Faith and Charity: How Faith-Based Organizations and Nonprofits Are Working Together to Solve Social Issues
- Falling in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
- Fast Facts on Federal COVID-19 Stimulus for Nonprofits
- Helping First-Generation College Students Reach for the Stars
- Here’s to the Dreamers: An Ode for 2017
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- Hoping for the Best While Preparing for the Worst: Nonprofit Risk Management Q&A with former Secret Service Agent James Savage
- Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2021
- How Can Nelson Mandela Help You Put Your Dreams into Action?
- How Can Nonprofits be Agile?
- How Can Nonprofits Show Leadership in the #MeToo Movement?
- How Do You Take Your Social Sector Organization from Good to Great? A Checklist for Attracting, Hiring and Keeping the Best Talent
- How Nonprofit Leaders Can Ensure Every Part of Their Organization Advances Social Change
- How Nonprofits & Social Entrepreneurs Can Answer the President’s Call to Action
- How Nonprofits Can Sharpen Their Focus on Mental Health
- How to Build an Inclusive Board
- How to End Domestic Violence and Abuse
- How We Can Change the World: The Social Ripple Effect
- Impact Investing Series 1 of 2: 3 Greatest Challenges to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Impact Investing Series 2 of 2: 3 Greatest Opportunities to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Is this the Era of the Mayor?
- Is Your Nonprofit on Life Support? A Financial Check-up for the Social Sector
- Keep Calm and Plan On! Scenario Planning Lessons from the British Royal Wedding
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Learning in the Age of the Coronavirus
- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Advice for Nonprofits on Accepting Gifts of Real Estate
- Making Smart Decisions
- Martin Luther King Jr. and the Power of Social Movements
- On Being a Social Entrepreneur: A Decade of Lessons Learned
- Place is the Word: Innovative Placemaking
- Playing the Long Game: Best Practices for Fighting Poverty
- Prescription from the Pulpit: What Pope Francis Teaches Us About Change
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Redefining the Path to Success: Moving from Ego-thinking to Eco-thinking in the Social Sector
- Shaping Better Policy: How Advocacy Adds Value to the Social Sector
- Should Nonprofits Become Landlords?
- Snag Talent with a Bit O’ Irish Luck
- Social Enterprise, Tear Down This Wall!
- Social Impact Exchange LIVE
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2020
- Solving Social Issues in the Biden Era
- State of Social Enterprise 2016 (Crowd-sourced!)
- System Change: Do We Fix the System or Change it Altogether?
- Tag…You’re It!
- The 4 C’s of Employee Retention
- The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
- The Art & Science of Donor Engagement (with an added bonus: templates!)
- The Collaboration Commandments
- The Color of Money
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Crowdfunding
- The Five C’s of an Effective Policymaker Meeting
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2014
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Opportunity Zones
- The Mary Poppins Guide to Making the Best Use of Nonprofit Downtime
- The New Tax Law: How It Will Impact Your Nonprofit Organization and 5 Solutions to Mitigate Your Risk
- The Rise of the Whole Child
- The Roller Coaster Ride of Nonprofit Governance in 2020
- The Woman in the Arena
- Top 5 Takeaways from Aspen Ideas Festival: Spotlight Health
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Two for the Price of One: Two-Generation Approaches
- Want a More Diverse Audience or Clientele? Incorporate These 4 Pillars into Your Strategy
- Want to Stand Out from the Crowd? Social Marketing Lessons from “Don’t Mess with Texas”
- What Are PRIs (Program-Related Investments) & MRIs (Mission-Related Investments)?
- What I Learned from John McCain
- What is Community and How Do We Measure It?
- What’s in a Name? Buzzwords in the Social Sector
- Who is Your Greatest Competition? How Your Family Tree Can Help You Uncover (Sometimes Surprising) Answers
- Why Bottom-Up Program Design Is the Future
- Why Nonprofit Teamwork Fails
- Will Social Entrepreneurship Survive the Trump Era?
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? How Shared Services Can Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Impact
Collection of Articles
Communicate
- “Out-of-the-Box” Fundraising Ideas
- (Almost) Free Wi-Fi for Nonprofit Clients
- 2014 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Building Better Nonprofits
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 2018 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Collaboration
- 2020 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Technology
- 4 Steps to Turn Your Nonprofit’s Volunteers into Evangelists
- 5 Leadership Lessons from Coach K
- 5 Tips for Corporate Sponsorship in the Face of COVID-19
- 5 Tips for Taming Email Clutter
- 5 Tips to Hit a Social Business Pitch out of the Park
- 5 Ways to Show Your Love to Nonprofit Donors & Volunteers
- 6 Virtual Fundraising Event Tips to Combat “Zoom Fatigue”
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- 9 Lessons from a Founding Father of Social Enterprise
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2014
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2015
- Are You Elevator-Ready? The 6 C’s for a Dynamite Nonprofit Pitch
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Beyond Housing 2014 LIVE
- Bringing Impact Investing Back to Earth
- Charitable Giving Trends from Giving USA 2021
- Corporate Social Responsibility is Getting an Upgrade – for Good
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Dog Days of Summer 2014
- Etiquette for Effective and Enjoyable Online Meetings
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Faith and Charity: How Faith-Based Organizations and Nonprofits Are Working Together to Solve Social Issues
- Five Strategies for Rethinking Revenue & Development
- Five Years Later: What the Ice Bucket Challenge Continues to Teach Us about Marketing
- Following Southwest’s Model for Taking Nonprofit Internal Communications to New Heights
- Help Your Team Take Flight with Tips from Southwest
- How Much of a Difference Are We Making? Using SROI as a Tool
- How to Land the Big Fish: Try a Nonprofit Prospectus
- How to Use Theory of Change to Map Your Nonprofit’s North Star
- Impact Investing Series 1 of 2: 3 Greatest Challenges to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Impact Investing Series 2 of 2: 3 Greatest Opportunities to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of Neglecting Vision-Mission-Values?
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Key Takeaways & Trends from Giving USA 2020 Results
- Lessons from Dr. Seuss on the Power of Storytelling
- More Than Marketing: Storytelling Is the Shot of Adrenaline Your Nonprofit Needs
- Not-So-Scary Social Media Steps
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Q&A: 3 Tips for Knocking Your Next Retreat Out of the Ballpark
- Show Me the Money: Turning Donors into Investors through Your Annual Appeal
- Snag Talent with a Bit O’ Irish Luck
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2019
- Stand Out From the Crowd: Develop a Unique Value Proposition
- The Art & Science of Donor Engagement (with an added bonus: templates!)
- The Color of Money
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Crowdfunding
- The Five C’s of an Effective Policymaker Meeting
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Mary Poppins Guide to Making the Best Use of Nonprofit Downtime
- The New Tax Law: How It Will Impact Your Nonprofit Organization and 5 Solutions to Mitigate Your Risk
- The Woman in the Arena
- Top Nonprofit Marketing Mistakes That Cost Money
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Risk Management in the Social Sector
- Vision vs. Mission: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Organization’s Vision
- Walk the Line, SEA-Style
- Want a More Diverse Audience or Clientele? Incorporate These 4 Pillars into Your Strategy
- Want to Stand Out from the Crowd? Social Marketing Lessons from “Don’t Mess with Texas”
- What Are PRIs (Program-Related Investments) & MRIs (Mission-Related Investments)?
- What Did We Learn from the Giving USA Report?
Conference Reviews
- “In the Know” – Skoll World Forum 2013
- 4 Trends from the Aspen Ideas Festival to Spark Social Change
- Beyond Housing 2014 LIVE
- Social Enterprise Alliance Summit LIVE
- Social Impact Exchange LIVE
- The 2013 Social Enterprise Olympics
- Top 5 Takeaways from Aspen Ideas Festival: Spotlight Health
- Walk the Line, SEA-Style
COVID-19
- (Almost) Free Wi-Fi for Nonprofit Clients
- 3 Steps to Start Your Nonprofit’s Advocacy Journey
- 5 Tips for Corporate Sponsorship in the Face of COVID-19
- 6 Virtual Fundraising Event Tips to Combat “Zoom Fatigue”
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Changemaker Top 10 Playlist
- Charitable Giving Trends from Giving USA 2021
- Combating Leadership Fatigue in the Social Sector
- Do’s and Don’ts of Remote Leadership
- Etiquette for Effective and Enjoyable Online Meetings
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Fast Facts on Federal COVID-19 Stimulus for Nonprofits
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- Hoping for the Best While Preparing for the Worst: Nonprofit Risk Management Q&A with former Secret Service Agent James Savage
- How Nonprofits Can Sharpen Their Focus on Mental Health
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Key Takeaways & Trends from Giving USA 2020 Results
- Learning in the Age of the Coronavirus
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Should Nonprofits Become Landlords?
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2020
- The Art & Science of Donor Engagement (with an added bonus: templates!)
- The Color of Money
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Mary Poppins Guide to Making the Best Use of Nonprofit Downtime
- The Perfect Recipe for a Social Business Model
- The Roller Coaster Ride of Nonprofit Governance in 2020
- What You Should Do Instead of Working on a New Nonprofit Strategic Plan This Year
- Why Employee Ownership Will Help Nonprofits Survive a Turbulent Economy
Ecosystem Mapping
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Is this the Era of the Mayor?
- Redefining the Path to Success: Moving from Ego-thinking to Eco-thinking in the Social Sector
- System Change: Do We Fix the System or Change it Altogether?
- The Collaboration Commandments
- What is Community and How Do We Measure It?
- Why Bottom-Up Program Design Is the Future
Evaluation Planning
- 3 Steps to Make Evaluation Plans Easy
- Do You Get Lost in Projects? Secrets from Tech Titans
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- How Much of a Difference Are We Making? Using SROI as a Tool
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Place is the Word: Innovative Placemaking
- Self-Sufficiency: The New Norm in the Social Sector and How to Get There
- Top Tips for Mastering Nonprofit Logic Models
- Which Strategic Plan is Right for You?
Executive Coaching
- 6 Resolutions to Rise Strong in the Social Sector
- Are IQ, EQ and SQ the Secret to Great Social Sector Leaders?
- Combating Leadership Fatigue in the Social Sector
- Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: How to Make Culture a Priority in Your Social Sector Work
- Dog Days of Summer 2014
- Etiquette for Effective and Enjoyable Online Meetings
- How to Build a (Social) Revolution: Hacks from Tech Innovators – Part 2
- Learning in the Age of the Coronavirus
- Why Employee Ownership Will Help Nonprofits Survive a Turbulent Economy
- Why Turnover Should be a Key Metric for the Social Sector – Our Collective Canary in the Coal Mine
Feasibility Studies
- Creating Win-Wins with Nonprofit Feasibility Assessments
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- How Can Nonprofits be Agile?
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? How Shared Services Can Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Impact
Fundraising
- “Out-of-the-Box” Fundraising Ideas
- 2014 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Building Better Nonprofits
- 5 Tips for Corporate Sponsorship in the Face of COVID-19
- 5 Tips for Taming Email Clutter
- 5 Ways to Show Your Love to Nonprofit Donors & Volunteers
- 6 Virtual Fundraising Event Tips to Combat “Zoom Fatigue”
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2015
- Bringing Impact Investing Back to Earth
- Charitable Giving Trends from Giving USA 2021
- Corporate Social Responsibility is Getting an Upgrade – for Good
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Faith and Charity: How Faith-Based Organizations and Nonprofits Are Working Together to Solve Social Issues
- Five Strategies for Rethinking Revenue & Development
- Five Years Later: What the Ice Bucket Challenge Continues to Teach Us about Marketing
- Impact Investing Series 1 of 2: 3 Greatest Challenges to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Impact Investing Series 2 of 2: 3 Greatest Opportunities to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Key Takeaways & Trends from Giving USA 2020 Results
- Show Me the Money: Turning Donors into Investors through Your Annual Appeal
- Stand Out From the Crowd: Develop a Unique Value Proposition
- The Art & Science of Donor Engagement (with an added bonus: templates!)
- The Color of Money
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Crowdfunding
- The Five C’s of an Effective Policymaker Meeting
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The New Tax Law: How It Will Impact Your Nonprofit Organization and 5 Solutions to Mitigate Your Risk
- What Are PRIs (Program-Related Investments) & MRIs (Mission-Related Investments)?
- What Did We Learn from the Giving USA Report?
Grow
- (Almost) Free Talent: Building a Next-Generation Nonprofit Workforce with Internships, Job Shadowing and Class Projects
- 2014 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Building Better Nonprofits
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 2017 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Focus to Entrepreneurial Thinking in Nonprofits
- 2018 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Collaboration
- 2020 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Technology
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 Smart Tactics to Start Your Journey into Market Research
- 3 Steps to Start Your Nonprofit’s Advocacy Journey
- 4 Elements of Entrepreneurial Culture and How to Incorporate Them into Your Nonprofit
- 5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Organization’s Performance Through Core Values
- 5 New Year’s Resolutions to Make Our Hearts Grow
- 5 Things Every Social Impact Leader Needs to Know Before Their Next Hire
- 5 Tips to Hit a Social Business Pitch out of the Park
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- 5 Ways to Show Your Love to Nonprofit Donors & Volunteers
- 6 Resolutions to Rise Strong in the Social Sector
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- 9 Lessons from a Founding Father of Social Enterprise
- A Check-Up for Your Nonprofit: Avoiding Organizational Decline or Failure
- A Recipe for Success: How a Hybrid Strategic Business Plan Can Help Your Organization
- Adding to Our Repertoire: Social TrendSpotter Launches New TED-Style Videos on Trending Topics in the Social Sector
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2013
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2014
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2015
- Are IQ, EQ and SQ the Secret to Great Social Sector Leaders?
- Are Nonprofit Business Plans Dead?
- Are Nonprofits in the Customer Service Business?
- Are Performance Reviews Going Extinct? 6 Tips for Making Nonprofit Reviews More Effective
- Are Women Better at Social Enterprise?
- Are You Chasing Money or Your Mission? The Mission-Money Matrix Can Help You Find Out!
- Back to the Future: The Social Sector in 2045
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Boards Behaving Badly
- Can Nonprofits Lobby? The Answer is YES!
- Can Your Nonprofit Manage a Crisis? Follow These 5 Tips to Hold onto Your Halo in a Crisis
- Celebrating a Sweet New Year & Jewish Innovators
- Channel Your Inner Oprah to Discover the Most Effective Market Research Tools
- Collaboration Q&A
- Combating Leadership Fatigue in the Social Sector
- Corporate Social Responsibility is Getting an Upgrade – for Good
- Creating Win-Wins with Nonprofit Feasibility Assessments
- Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: How to Make Culture a Priority in Your Social Sector Work
- Death by Meeting? Tips to Energize Your Nonprofit Meetings
- Do Competitions Help or Hinder Social Enterprises?
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Do’s and Don’ts of Remote Leadership
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- Falling in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
- Fast Facts on Federal COVID-19 Stimulus for Nonprofits
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2016
- Fire and Rain: How Nonprofit Niceness Gets in the Way of Progress
- Five Strategies for Rethinking Revenue & Development
- Following Southwest’s Model for Taking Nonprofit Internal Communications to New Heights
- From Planning to Action: Action Plans Help You Get Things Done After Your Strategic Plan
- Haven’t Got a Clue How to Start Your Market Research? Try Secondary Research First
- Here’s to the Dreamers: An Ode for 2017
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2019
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- Hoping for the Best While Preparing for the Worst: Nonprofit Risk Management Q&A with former Secret Service Agent James Savage
- How Can Nonprofits be Agile?
- How Do You Take Your Social Sector Organization from Good to Great? A Checklist for Attracting, Hiring and Keeping the Best Talent
- How Fatherhood Programs Are Helping the Next Generation
- How Nonprofit Leaders Can Ensure Every Part of Their Organization Advances Social Change
- How Nonprofits & Social Entrepreneurs Can Answer the President’s Call to Action
- How Nonprofits Can Maximize Millennials’ Talents
- How the Yanny vs. Laurel Debate Can Help Us Practice Conflict Resolution Skills in the Social Sector
- How to Build a Successful Nonprofit Board
- How to Build an Inclusive Board
- How to Land the Big Fish: Try a Nonprofit Prospectus
- How to Manage Change in Your Nonprofit
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- How to Use Theory of Change to Map Your Nonprofit’s North Star
- If You Can Write a Grant, You CAN Write a Nonprofit Business Plan
- Impact Investing Series 1 of 2: 3 Greatest Challenges to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Impact Investing Series 2 of 2: 3 Greatest Opportunities to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Innovation OUT? Is Impact IN? Food for Thought for the Social Sector
- Is Pay for Success Making an Impact?
- Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of Neglecting Vision-Mission-Values?
- Is Your Nonprofit on Life Support? A Financial Check-up for the Social Sector
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keep Calm and Plan On! Scenario Planning Lessons from the British Royal Wedding
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Lean Startup for Nonprofits
- Lessons on Scaling Wide from America’s Cowboy Leader, Hugh O’Brian
- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Advice for Nonprofits on Accepting Gifts of Real Estate
- Looking for the Perfect Match? 4 Nonprofit Interview Tips for Hiring the Right Employees
- May the Productivity Force Be with You
- Minding the Gap with Dashboards
- More Than Manners: 3 Ways to Leverage Emotional Intelligence
- Not-So-Scary Social Media Steps
- Passing the Torch to a New Generation: Why Succession Planning is Crucial to the Social Sector
- Pearls of Wisdom: Advice to Rising Social Entrepreneurs
- Place is the Word: Innovative Placemaking
- Prescription from the Pulpit: What Pope Francis Teaches Us About Change
- Putting Your Oxygen Mask on First: Self-Care for the Social Sector
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Q&A: 3 Tips for Knocking Your Next Retreat Out of the Ballpark
- Quiz: Is Your Organization Resilient?
- Self-Sufficiency: The New Norm in the Social Sector and How to Get There
- Shaping Better Policy: How Advocacy Adds Value to the Social Sector
- Should Nonprofits Become Landlords?
- Snag Talent with a Bit O’ Irish Luck
- Social Alchemy: Transforming Problems into Social Change
- Social Enterprise Alliance Summit LIVE
- Social Enterprise, Tear Down This Wall!
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2018
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2019
- Spinning Your Wheels? Tips for Avoiding the Activity Trap in the Social Sector
- Stand Out From the Crowd: Develop a Unique Value Proposition
- State of Social Enterprise 2016 (Crowd-sourced!)
- Step-by-Step Guide to Create a Successful Social Enterprise
- The 2013 Social Enterprise Olympics
- The 5 Temptations of Nonprofit CEOs with a Game of Thrones Twist
- The Collaboration Commandments
- The Color of Money
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Crowdfunding
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2015
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Opportunity Zones
- The Mary Poppins Guide to Making the Best Use of Nonprofit Downtime
- The Perfect Recipe for a Social Business Model
- The Roller Coaster Ride of Nonprofit Governance in 2020
- The Social Sector’s F-Word – Failure
- The Times They Are A-Changin’: “The Mission-Driven Venture” Shares Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs
- They’re Engaged (Our Employees, That Is)!
- Top 10 Quotes for the Social Sector
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Top Nonprofit Marketing Mistakes That Cost Money
- Top Questions on Business Planning
- Top Questions on Social Enterprise
- Top Questions on Strategic Planning
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Risk Management in the Social Sector
- Two for the Price of One: Two-Generation Approaches
- Vision vs. Mission: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Organization’s Vision
- Want a More Diverse Audience or Clientele? Incorporate These 4 Pillars into Your Strategy
- What Are PRIs (Program-Related Investments) & MRIs (Mission-Related Investments)?
- What is Social Intrapreneurship & How Will It Help Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs Create Positive Change?
- What is the Difference between Social Innovation, Social Enterprise & Social Entrepreneurship?
- What You Should Do Instead of Working on a New Nonprofit Strategic Plan This Year
- What’s in a Name? Buzzwords in the Social Sector
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
- Which Strategic Plan is Right for You?
- Who is Your Greatest Competition? How Your Family Tree Can Help You Uncover (Sometimes Surprising) Answers
- Why Bottom-Up Program Design Is the Future
- Why Employee Ownership Will Help Nonprofits Survive a Turbulent Economy
- Why Nonprofit Teamwork Fails
- Why Turnover Should be a Key Metric for the Social Sector – Our Collective Canary in the Coal Mine
- Why We Should Live by the “Cowboy Code”
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? How Shared Services Can Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Impact
Growth/Scaling Plans
- 2017 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Focus to Entrepreneurial Thinking in Nonprofits
- 2020 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Technology
- 3 Steps to Start Your Nonprofit’s Advocacy Journey
- 5 New Year’s Resolutions to Make Our Hearts Grow
- 5 Tips to Hit a Social Business Pitch out of the Park
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- 5 Ways to Show Your Love to Nonprofit Donors & Volunteers
- A Check-Up for Your Nonprofit: Avoiding Organizational Decline or Failure
- Adding to Our Repertoire: Social TrendSpotter Launches New TED-Style Videos on Trending Topics in the Social Sector
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Are Nonprofit Business Plans Dead?
- Are You Chasing Money or Your Mission? The Mission-Money Matrix Can Help You Find Out!
- Can Nonprofits Lobby? The Answer is YES!
- Celebrating a Sweet New Year & Jewish Innovators
- Corporate Social Responsibility is Getting an Upgrade – for Good
- Creating Win-Wins with Nonprofit Feasibility Assessments
- Do Competitions Help or Hinder Social Enterprises?
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- Falling in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2016
- Fire and Rain: How Nonprofit Niceness Gets in the Way of Progress
- Five Strategies for Rethinking Revenue & Development
- Here’s to the Dreamers: An Ode for 2017
- How Do You Take Your Social Sector Organization from Good to Great? A Checklist for Attracting, Hiring and Keeping the Best Talent
- How Nonprofits & Social Entrepreneurs Can Answer the President’s Call to Action
- How Nonprofits Can Maximize Millennials’ Talents
- Is Pay for Success Making an Impact?
- Lean Startup for Nonprofits
- Lessons on Scaling Wide from America’s Cowboy Leader, Hugh O’Brian
- Minding the Gap with Dashboards
- Passing the Torch to a New Generation: Why Succession Planning is Crucial to the Social Sector
- Place is the Word: Innovative Placemaking
- Shaping Better Policy: How Advocacy Adds Value to the Social Sector
- Should Nonprofits Become Landlords?
- Social Alchemy: Transforming Problems into Social Change
- Spinning Your Wheels? Tips for Avoiding the Activity Trap in the Social Sector
- Stand Out From the Crowd: Develop a Unique Value Proposition
- Step-by-Step Guide to Create a Successful Social Enterprise
- The Collaboration Commandments
- The Color of Money
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Crowdfunding
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Opportunity Zones
- Two for the Price of One: Two-Generation Approaches
- What Are PRIs (Program-Related Investments) & MRIs (Mission-Related Investments)?
- What is Social Intrapreneurship & How Will It Help Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs Create Positive Change?
- What You Should Do Instead of Working on a New Nonprofit Strategic Plan This Year
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
- Which Strategic Plan is Right for You?
- Why Employee Ownership Will Help Nonprofits Survive a Turbulent Economy
- Why Turnover Should be a Key Metric for the Social Sector – Our Collective Canary in the Coal Mine
- Why We Should Live by the “Cowboy Code”
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? How Shared Services Can Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Impact
Guest Blogs
- 5 Leadership Lessons from Coach K
- 5 Things Every Social Impact Leader Needs to Know Before Their Next Hire
- 5 Tips for Corporate Sponsorship in the Face of COVID-19
- 5 Ways to Show Your Love to Nonprofit Donors & Volunteers
- 6 Virtual Fundraising Event Tips to Combat “Zoom Fatigue”
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- Are Nonprofits in the Customer Service Business?
- Are Performance Reviews Going Extinct? 6 Tips for Making Nonprofit Reviews More Effective
- Boards Behaving Badly
- Bringing Impact Investing Back to Earth
- Can Your Nonprofit Manage a Crisis? Follow These 5 Tips to Hold onto Your Halo in a Crisis
- Changemaker Top 10 Playlist
- Do Competitions Help or Hinder Social Enterprises?
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Here’s to the Dreamers: An Ode for 2017
- Hoping for the Best While Preparing for the Worst: Nonprofit Risk Management Q&A with former Secret Service Agent James Savage
- How Can Nonprofits be Agile?
- How Can Nonprofits Show Leadership in the #MeToo Movement?
- How Do You Take Your Social Sector Organization from Good to Great? A Checklist for Attracting, Hiring and Keeping the Best Talent
- How Nonprofit Leaders Can Ensure Every Part of Their Organization Advances Social Change
- How to Build an Inclusive Board
- Impact Investing Series 1 of 2: 3 Greatest Challenges to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Impact Investing Series 2 of 2: 3 Greatest Opportunities to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Is Your Nonprofit on Life Support? A Financial Check-up for the Social Sector
- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Advice for Nonprofits on Accepting Gifts of Real Estate
- Making Smart Decisions
- Should Nonprofits Become Landlords?
- Social Enterprise, Tear Down This Wall!
- State of Social Enterprise 2016 (Crowd-sourced!)
- The 4 C’s of Employee Retention
- The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
- The Art & Science of Donor Engagement (with an added bonus: templates!)
- The Color of Money
- The Roller Coaster Ride of Nonprofit Governance in 2020
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Want a More Diverse Audience or Clientele? Incorporate These 4 Pillars into Your Strategy
Human Resources
- (Almost) Free Talent: Building a Next-Generation Nonprofit Workforce with Internships, Job Shadowing and Class Projects
- 5 Things Every Social Impact Leader Needs to Know Before Their Next Hire
- A Check-Up for Your Nonprofit: Avoiding Organizational Decline or Failure
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- How Can Nelson Mandela Help You Put Your Dreams into Action?
- How Do You Take Your Social Sector Organization from Good to Great? A Checklist for Attracting, Hiring and Keeping the Best Talent
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- Looking for the Perfect Match? 4 Nonprofit Interview Tips for Hiring the Right Employees
- More Than Manners: 3 Ways to Leverage Emotional Intelligence
- Putting Your Oxygen Mask on First: Self-Care for the Social Sector
- Snag Talent with a Bit O’ Irish Luck
- Tricks of the Trade for Social Sector Job Seekers
- Why Turnover Should be a Key Metric for the Social Sector – Our Collective Canary in the Coal Mine
Impact
- 2014 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Building Better Nonprofits
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 2017 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Focus to Entrepreneurial Thinking in Nonprofits
- 2018 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Collaboration
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 Similarities of Agency & Employee Accountability
- 3 Smart Tactics to Start Your Journey into Market Research
- 3 Steps to Make Evaluation Plans Easy
- 5 Tips to Hit a Social Business Pitch out of the Park
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- Adding to Our Repertoire: Social TrendSpotter Launches New TED-Style Videos on Trending Topics in the Social Sector
- Advanced Thinking on Developing a Theory of Change
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Are Nonprofit Business Plans Dead?
- Are Nonprofits in the Customer Service Business?
- Are You Chasing Money or Your Mission? The Mission-Money Matrix Can Help You Find Out!
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Being a “Bridge Out of Poverty” for Our Employees and Community
- Beyond Housing 2014 LIVE
- Book Review: Make Waves
- Channel Your Inner Oprah to Discover the Most Effective Market Research Tools
- Collaboration Q&A
- Coopeting for the Gold Medal Using Theory of Change
- Creating Win-Wins with Nonprofit Feasibility Assessments
- Do You Get Lost in Projects? Secrets from Tech Titans
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- Faith and Charity: How Faith-Based Organizations and Nonprofits Are Working Together to Solve Social Issues
- Falling in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
- Five Years Later: What the Ice Bucket Challenge Continues to Teach Us about Marketing
- Free Stuff for Nonprofits
- Gamechanging Study on Social Enterprise
- Haven’t Got a Clue How to Start Your Market Research? Try Secondary Research First
- Helping First-Generation College Students Reach for the Stars
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2019
- Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2021
- How Fatherhood Programs Are Helping the Next Generation
- How Much of a Difference Are We Making? Using SROI as a Tool
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- How to Use Theory of Change to Map Your Nonprofit’s North Star
- Impact Measurement Series 2 of 4: Measure What Matters
- Impact vs. Outcomes
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Innovation OUT? Is Impact IN? Food for Thought for the Social Sector
- Is Pay for Success Making an Impact?
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keep Calm and Plan On! Scenario Planning Lessons from the British Royal Wedding
- Martin Luther King Jr. and the Power of Social Movements
- Minding the Gap with Dashboards
- Place is the Word: Innovative Placemaking
- Redefining the Path to Success: Moving from Ego-thinking to Eco-thinking in the Social Sector
- Secrets from the Fortune 500 – Design Thinking Hacks for Nonprofits
- Self-Sufficiency: The New Norm in the Social Sector and How to Get There
- Show Me the Money: Turning Donors into Investors through Your Annual Appeal
- Social Impact Exchange LIVE
- Spinning Your Wheels? Tips for Avoiding the Activity Trap in the Social Sector
- System Change: Do We Fix the System or Change it Altogether?
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2013
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2015
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Perfect Recipe for a Social Business Model
- Top 10 Quotes for the Social Sector
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Top Tips for Mastering Nonprofit Logic Models
- Two for the Price of One: Two-Generation Approaches
- Walk the Line, SEA-Style
- Want a More Diverse Audience or Clientele? Incorporate These 4 Pillars into Your Strategy
- What Are PRIs (Program-Related Investments) & MRIs (Mission-Related Investments)?
- What is Social Intrapreneurship & How Will It Help Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs Create Positive Change?
- What is the Difference between Social Innovation, Social Enterprise & Social Entrepreneurship?
- What’s in a Name? Buzzwords in the Social Sector
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
- Which Strategic Plan is Right for You?
- Why Bottom-Up Program Design Is the Future
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? How Shared Services Can Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Impact
Impact Measurement
- 2014 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Building Better Nonprofits
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 2017 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Focus to Entrepreneurial Thinking in Nonprofits
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 Similarities of Agency & Employee Accountability
- 3 Steps to Make Evaluation Plans Easy
- 5 Tips to Hit a Social Business Pitch out of the Park
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- Adding to Our Repertoire: Social TrendSpotter Launches New TED-Style Videos on Trending Topics in the Social Sector
- Advanced Thinking on Developing a Theory of Change
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Are Nonprofit Business Plans Dead?
- Are Nonprofits in the Customer Service Business?
- Are You Chasing Money or Your Mission? The Mission-Money Matrix Can Help You Find Out!
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Being a “Bridge Out of Poverty” for Our Employees and Community
- Beyond Housing 2014 LIVE
- Book Review: Make Waves
- Channel Your Inner Oprah to Discover the Most Effective Market Research Tools
- Collaboration Q&A
- Coopeting for the Gold Medal Using Theory of Change
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Faith and Charity: How Faith-Based Organizations and Nonprofits Are Working Together to Solve Social Issues
- Falling in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
- Five Years Later: What the Ice Bucket Challenge Continues to Teach Us about Marketing
- Gamechanging Study on Social Enterprise
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- How Much of a Difference Are We Making? Using SROI as a Tool
- How to Use Theory of Change to Map Your Nonprofit’s North Star
- Impact Measurement Series 2 of 4: Measure What Matters
- Impact vs. Outcomes
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Innovation OUT? Is Impact IN? Food for Thought for the Social Sector
- Is Pay for Success Making an Impact?
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keep Calm and Plan On! Scenario Planning Lessons from the British Royal Wedding
- Martin Luther King Jr. and the Power of Social Movements
- Minding the Gap with Dashboards
- Redefining the Path to Success: Moving from Ego-thinking to Eco-thinking in the Social Sector
- Self-Sufficiency: The New Norm in the Social Sector and How to Get There
- Show Me the Money: Turning Donors into Investors through Your Annual Appeal
- Spinning Your Wheels? Tips for Avoiding the Activity Trap in the Social Sector
- System Change: Do We Fix the System or Change it Altogether?
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2015
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- Top 10 Quotes for the Social Sector
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Top Tips for Mastering Nonprofit Logic Models
- What Are PRIs (Program-Related Investments) & MRIs (Mission-Related Investments)?
- What is the Difference between Social Innovation, Social Enterprise & Social Entrepreneurship?
- What’s in a Name? Buzzwords in the Social Sector
- Why Bottom-Up Program Design Is the Future
Inspirations
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holiday Season 2019
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holiday Season 2020
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2013
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2014
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2015
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2016
- Favorite Inspirations: Top 10 Life Hacks for a More Peaceful 2018
- Why We Should Live by the “Cowboy Code”
Issue Based Blogs
- 3 Steps to Start Your Nonprofit’s Advocacy Journey
- 7 Actions Nonprofits Can Take to Be Anti-Racist Organizations
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- Beyond Housing 2014 LIVE
- Can Nonprofits Lobby? The Answer is YES!
- Can We Really Cut Child Poverty in Half?
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Fast Facts on Federal COVID-19 Stimulus for Nonprofits
- Helping First-Generation College Students Reach for the Stars
- How Can Nonprofits Show Leadership in the #MeToo Movement?
- How Nonprofits & Social Entrepreneurs Can Answer the President’s Call to Action
- How Nonprofits Can Sharpen Their Focus on Mental Health
- How to Build an Inclusive Board
- How We Can Change the World: The Social Ripple Effect
- Impact Investing Series 1 of 2: 3 Greatest Challenges to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Impact Investing Series 2 of 2: 3 Greatest Opportunities to Bring the Movement Mainstream
- Learning in the Age of the Coronavirus
- Playing the Long Game: Best Practices for Fighting Poverty
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Shaping Better Policy: How Advocacy Adds Value to the Social Sector
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2020
- Solving Social Issues in the Biden Era
- The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
- The Mary Poppins Guide to Making the Best Use of Nonprofit Downtime
- What is Community and How Do We Measure It?
Lead
- (Almost) Free Talent: Building a Next-Generation Nonprofit Workforce with Internships, Job Shadowing and Class Projects
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 2019 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Mindset
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 Olympic Leadership Lessons
- 4 Elements of Entrepreneurial Culture and How to Incorporate Them into Your Nonprofit
- 4 Takeaways from the First 40 Years
- 5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Organization’s Performance Through Core Values
- 5 Things Every Social Impact Leader Needs to Know Before Their Next Hire
- 5 Tips for Corporate Sponsorship in the Face of COVID-19
- 5 Tips for Taming Email Clutter
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- 6 Resolutions to Rise Strong in the Social Sector
- 9 Lessons from a Founding Father of Social Enterprise
- A Check-Up for Your Nonprofit: Avoiding Organizational Decline or Failure
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2013
- Are IQ, EQ and SQ the Secret to Great Social Sector Leaders?
- Combating Leadership Fatigue in the Social Sector
- Corporate Social Responsibility is Getting an Upgrade – for Good
- Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: How to Make Culture a Priority in Your Social Sector Work
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Do’s and Don’ts of Remote Leadership
- Dog Days of Summer 2014
- Dog Days of Summer 2015
- Etiquette for Effective and Enjoyable Online Meetings
- Everyone Can Be a Changemaker
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2016
- Following Southwest’s Model for Taking Nonprofit Internal Communications to New Heights
- Free Stuff for Nonprofits
- Help Your Team Take Flight with Tips from Southwest
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2021
- How Can Nelson Mandela Help You Put Your Dreams into Action?
- How Can Nonprofits be Agile?
- How Can Nonprofits Show Leadership in the #MeToo Movement?
- How Do You Take Your Social Sector Organization from Good to Great? A Checklist for Attracting, Hiring and Keeping the Best Talent
- How Nonprofit Leaders Can Ensure Every Part of Their Organization Advances Social Change
- How Nonprofits Can Maximize Millennials’ Talents
- How the Yanny vs. Laurel Debate Can Help Us Practice Conflict Resolution Skills in the Social Sector
- How to Build a (Social) Revolution: Hacks from Tech Innovators – Part 2
- How to Build an Inclusive Board
- How to Manage Change in Your Nonprofit
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- In Case You Missed It
- Is Innovation OUT? Is Impact IN? Food for Thought for the Social Sector
- Is Pay for Success Making an Impact?
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Learning in the Age of the Coronavirus
- Looking for the Perfect Match? 4 Nonprofit Interview Tips for Hiring the Right Employees
- Martin Luther King Jr. and the Power of Social Movements
- More Than Manners: 3 Ways to Leverage Emotional Intelligence
- Pearls of Wisdom: Advice to Rising Social Entrepreneurs
- Prescription from the Pulpit: What Pope Francis Teaches Us About Change
- Putting Your Oxygen Mask on First: Self-Care for the Social Sector
- Q&A: 3 Tips for Knocking Your Next Retreat Out of the Ballpark
- Quiz: Is Your Organization Resilient?
- Snag Talent with a Bit O’ Irish Luck
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2019
- Spinning Your Wheels? Tips for Avoiding the Activity Trap in the Social Sector
- The 4 C’s of Employee Retention
- The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Opportunity Zones
- The Social Sector’s F-Word – Failure
- They’re Engaged (Our Employees, That Is)!
- Top 10 Quotes for the Social Sector
- Top Questions on Social Enterprise
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Tricks of the Trade for Social Sector Job Seekers
- What is Social Intrapreneurship & How Will It Help Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs Create Positive Change?
- Why Employee Ownership Will Help Nonprofits Survive a Turbulent Economy
- Why Nonprofit Teamwork Fails
- Why Turnover Should be a Key Metric for the Social Sector – Our Collective Canary in the Coal Mine
Lean Start-Up
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 Smart Tactics to Start Your Journey into Market Research
- 3 Steps to Make Evaluation Plans Easy
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Are Nonprofit Business Plans Dead?
- Book Review: Make Waves
- Channel Your Inner Oprah to Discover the Most Effective Market Research Tools
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Free Stuff for Nonprofits
- Haven’t Got a Clue How to Start Your Market Research? Try Secondary Research First
- Helping First-Generation College Students Reach for the Stars
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Innovation OUT? Is Impact IN? Food for Thought for the Social Sector
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Social Impact Exchange LIVE
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2013
- Walk the Line, SEA-Style
- Want a More Diverse Audience or Clientele? Incorporate These 4 Pillars into Your Strategy
- What is Social Intrapreneurship & How Will It Help Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs Create Positive Change?
- What’s in a Name? Buzzwords in the Social Sector
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? How Shared Services Can Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Impact
Logic Model Development
- 3 Steps to Make Evaluation Plans Easy
- Are You Chasing Money or Your Mission? The Mission-Money Matrix Can Help You Find Out!
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- Impact vs. Outcomes
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2013
- Top Tips for Mastering Nonprofit Logic Models
Marketing & Communication
- “Out-of-the-Box” Fundraising Ideas
- (Almost) Free Wi-Fi for Nonprofit Clients
- 2020 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Technology
- 5 Tips for Corporate Sponsorship in the Face of COVID-19
- 5 Tips for Taming Email Clutter
- 5 Ways to Show Your Love to Nonprofit Donors & Volunteers
- 6 Virtual Fundraising Event Tips to Combat “Zoom Fatigue”
- 7 Tips to Tap into CARES Act-Stimulated Charitable Giving
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2014
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2015
- Are You Elevator-Ready? The 6 C’s for a Dynamite Nonprofit Pitch
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Charitable Giving Trends from Giving USA 2021
- Dog Days of Summer 2014
- Etiquette for Effective and Enjoyable Online Meetings
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Five Years Later: What the Ice Bucket Challenge Continues to Teach Us about Marketing
- Following Southwest’s Model for Taking Nonprofit Internal Communications to New Heights
- Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of Neglecting Vision-Mission-Values?
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Key Takeaways & Trends from Giving USA 2020 Results
- Lessons from Dr. Seuss on the Power of Storytelling
- More Than Marketing: Storytelling Is the Shot of Adrenaline Your Nonprofit Needs
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Show Me the Money: Turning Donors into Investors through Your Annual Appeal
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Stand Out From the Crowd: Develop a Unique Value Proposition
- The Art & Science of Donor Engagement (with an added bonus: templates!)
- The Color of Money
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Crowdfunding
- The Five C’s of an Effective Policymaker Meeting
- Top Nonprofit Marketing Mistakes That Cost Money
- Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Risk Management in the Social Sector
- Want a More Diverse Audience or Clientele? Incorporate These 4 Pillars into Your Strategy
- Want to Stand Out from the Crowd? Social Marketing Lessons from “Don’t Mess with Texas”
- What Did We Learn from the Giving USA Report?
Nonprofit Trends
- 2013 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Nonprofit Customers and Donors
- 2014 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Building Better Nonprofits
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 2017 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Focus to Entrepreneurial Thinking in Nonprofits
- 2018 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Collaboration
- 2019 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Mindset
- 2020 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Technology
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
Organizational Assessments
- (Almost) Free Talent: Building a Next-Generation Nonprofit Workforce with Internships, Job Shadowing and Class Projects
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 3 Smart Tactics to Start Your Journey into Market Research
- 4 Elements of Entrepreneurial Culture and How to Incorporate Them into Your Nonprofit
- 5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Organization’s Performance Through Core Values
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- 6 Resolutions to Rise Strong in the Social Sector
- A Check-Up for Your Nonprofit: Avoiding Organizational Decline or Failure
- Adding to Our Repertoire: Social TrendSpotter Launches New TED-Style Videos on Trending Topics in the Social Sector
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Are IQ, EQ and SQ the Secret to Great Social Sector Leaders?
- Are Nonprofits in the Customer Service Business?
- Are Performance Reviews Going Extinct? 6 Tips for Making Nonprofit Reviews More Effective
- Are You Chasing Money or Your Mission? The Mission-Money Matrix Can Help You Find Out!
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Can Your Nonprofit Manage a Crisis? Follow These 5 Tips to Hold onto Your Halo in a Crisis
- Channel Your Inner Oprah to Discover the Most Effective Market Research Tools
- Collaboration Q&A
- Creating Win-Wins with Nonprofit Feasibility Assessments
- Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: How to Make Culture a Priority in Your Social Sector Work
- Death by Meeting? Tips to Energize Your Nonprofit Meetings
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Do’s and Don’ts of Remote Leadership
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- Falling in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
- Fire and Rain: How Nonprofit Niceness Gets in the Way of Progress
- Following Southwest’s Model for Taking Nonprofit Internal Communications to New Heights
- From Planning to Action: Action Plans Help You Get Things Done After Your Strategic Plan
- Hoping for the Best While Preparing for the Worst: Nonprofit Risk Management Q&A with former Secret Service Agent James Savage
- How Can Nonprofits be Agile?
- How Do You Take Your Social Sector Organization from Good to Great? A Checklist for Attracting, Hiring and Keeping the Best Talent
- How Fatherhood Programs Are Helping the Next Generation
- How Nonprofit Leaders Can Ensure Every Part of Their Organization Advances Social Change
- How Nonprofits Can Maximize Millennials’ Talents
- How to Manage Change in Your Nonprofit
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- How to Use Theory of Change to Map Your Nonprofit’s North Star
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Innovation OUT? Is Impact IN? Food for Thought for the Social Sector
- Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of Neglecting Vision-Mission-Values?
- Is Your Nonprofit on Life Support? A Financial Check-up for the Social Sector
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- May the Productivity Force Be with You
- Minding the Gap with Dashboards
- More Than Manners: 3 Ways to Leverage Emotional Intelligence
- Passing the Torch to a New Generation: Why Succession Planning is Crucial to the Social Sector
- Prescription from the Pulpit: What Pope Francis Teaches Us About Change
- Putting Your Oxygen Mask on First: Self-Care for the Social Sector
- Quiz: Is Your Organization Resilient?
- Self-Sufficiency: The New Norm in the Social Sector and How to Get There
- Snag Talent with a Bit O’ Irish Luck
- Social Alchemy: Transforming Problems into Social Change
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2018
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2019
- Spinning Your Wheels? Tips for Avoiding the Activity Trap in the Social Sector
- The 5 Temptations of Nonprofit CEOs with a Game of Thrones Twist
- The Color of Money
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2015
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Mary Poppins Guide to Making the Best Use of Nonprofit Downtime
- The Roller Coaster Ride of Nonprofit Governance in 2020
- The Social Sector’s F-Word – Failure
- They’re Engaged (Our Employees, That Is)!
- Top 10 Quotes for the Social Sector
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Top Questions on Strategic Planning
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Risk Management in the Social Sector
- Two for the Price of One: Two-Generation Approaches
- Want a More Diverse Audience or Clientele? Incorporate These 4 Pillars into Your Strategy
- What is Social Intrapreneurship & How Will It Help Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs Create Positive Change?
- What You Should Do Instead of Working on a New Nonprofit Strategic Plan This Year
- What’s in a Name? Buzzwords in the Social Sector
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
- Why Bottom-Up Program Design Is the Future
- Why Nonprofit Teamwork Fails
- Why Turnover Should be a Key Metric for the Social Sector – Our Collective Canary in the Coal Mine
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? How Shared Services Can Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Impact
Organizational Culture
- (Almost) Free Talent: Building a Next-Generation Nonprofit Workforce with Internships, Job Shadowing and Class Projects
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 2019 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Mindset
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 4 Elements of Entrepreneurial Culture and How to Incorporate Them into Your Nonprofit
- 4 Takeaways from the First 40 Years
- 5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Organization’s Performance Through Core Values
- 5 Tips for Taming Email Clutter
- 5 Truths about Solving Social Issues
- 6 Resolutions to Rise Strong in the Social Sector
- 9 Lessons from a Founding Father of Social Enterprise
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- All-You-Can-Read Holiday Buffet: 2013
- Are IQ, EQ and SQ the Secret to Great Social Sector Leaders?
- Combating Leadership Fatigue in the Social Sector
- Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: How to Make Culture a Priority in Your Social Sector Work
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Do’s and Don’ts of Remote Leadership
- Dog Days of Summer 2015
- Etiquette for Effective and Enjoyable Online Meetings
- Everyone Can Be a Changemaker
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Favorite Inspirations to Celebrate the Holidays 2016
- Following Southwest’s Model for Taking Nonprofit Internal Communications to New Heights
- Free Stuff for Nonprofits
- Help Your Team Take Flight with Tips from Southwest
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2021
- How Can Nelson Mandela Help You Put Your Dreams into Action?
- How Can Nonprofits be Agile?
- How Can Nonprofits Show Leadership in the #MeToo Movement?
- How Do You Take Your Social Sector Organization from Good to Great? A Checklist for Attracting, Hiring and Keeping the Best Talent
- How Nonprofit Leaders Can Ensure Every Part of Their Organization Advances Social Change
- How Nonprofits Can Maximize Millennials’ Talents
- How the Yanny vs. Laurel Debate Can Help Us Practice Conflict Resolution Skills in the Social Sector
- How to Build an Inclusive Board
- How to Manage Change in Your Nonprofit
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- In Case You Missed It
- Is Innovation OUT? Is Impact IN? Food for Thought for the Social Sector
- Is Pay for Success Making an Impact?
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Looking for the Perfect Match? 4 Nonprofit Interview Tips for Hiring the Right Employees
- More Than Manners: 3 Ways to Leverage Emotional Intelligence
- Pearls of Wisdom: Advice to Rising Social Entrepreneurs
- Prescription from the Pulpit: What Pope Francis Teaches Us About Change
- Q&A: 3 Tips for Knocking Your Next Retreat Out of the Ballpark
- Quiz: Is Your Organization Resilient?
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2019
- Spinning Your Wheels? Tips for Avoiding the Activity Trap in the Social Sector
- The 4 C’s of Employee Retention
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Social Sector’s F-Word – Failure
- They’re Engaged (Our Employees, That Is)!
- Top 10 Quotes for the Social Sector
- Top Questions on Social Enterprise
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Tricks of the Trade for Social Sector Job Seekers
- What is Social Intrapreneurship & How Will It Help Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs Create Positive Change?
- Why Employee Ownership Will Help Nonprofits Survive a Turbulent Economy
- Why Nonprofit Teamwork Fails
- Why Turnover Should be a Key Metric for the Social Sector – Our Collective Canary in the Coal Mine
Personal
- 4 Takeaways from the First 40 Years
- Changemaker Top 10 Playlist
- Hot Topics in the Social Sector, Podcast-style
- Lessons on Scaling Wide from America’s Cowboy Leader, Hugh O’Brian
- May the Productivity Force Be with You
- On Being a Social Entrepreneur: A Decade of Lessons Learned
- Pearls of Wisdom: Advice to Rising Social Entrepreneurs
- The Woman in the Arena
- What I Learned from John McCain
Program Development
- 3 Steps to Make Evaluation Plans Easy
- Are Nonprofit Business Plans Dead?
- Are Nonprofits in the Customer Service Business?
- Are You Chasing Money or Your Mission? The Mission-Money Matrix Can Help You Find Out!
- Creating Win-Wins with Nonprofit Feasibility Assessments
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- How Fatherhood Programs Are Helping the Next Generation
- How Much of a Difference Are We Making? Using SROI as a Tool
- Self-Sufficiency: The New Norm in the Social Sector and How to Get There
- The Perfect Recipe for a Social Business Model
- Top Tips for Mastering Nonprofit Logic Models
- Two for the Price of One: Two-Generation Approaches
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
Storytelling
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 4 Steps to Turn Your Nonprofit’s Volunteers into Evangelists
- 5 Leadership Lessons from Coach K
- 5 Tips to Hit a Social Business Pitch out of the Park
- 5 Ways to Show Your Love to Nonprofit Donors & Volunteers
- 9 Lessons from a Founding Father of Social Enterprise
- Are You Elevator-Ready? The 6 C’s for a Dynamite Nonprofit Pitch
- Beyond Housing 2014 LIVE
- Charitable Giving Trends from Giving USA 2021
- Do You Have an Impact Culture?
- Five Years Later: What the Ice Bucket Challenge Continues to Teach Us about Marketing
- Help Your Team Take Flight with Tips from Southwest
- How Much of a Difference Are We Making? Using SROI as a Tool
- How to Land the Big Fish: Try a Nonprofit Prospectus
- How to Use Theory of Change to Map Your Nonprofit’s North Star
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of Neglecting Vision-Mission-Values?
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keeping Nonprofit Volunteers Engaged During COVID-19
- Key Takeaways & Trends from Giving USA 2020 Results
- Lessons from Dr. Seuss on the Power of Storytelling
- More Than Marketing: Storytelling Is the Shot of Adrenaline Your Nonprofit Needs
- Not-So-Scary Social Media Steps
- Q&A: 3 Tips for Knocking Your Next Retreat Out of the Ballpark
- Show Me the Money: Turning Donors into Investors through Your Annual Appeal
- Snag Talent with a Bit O’ Irish Luck
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2019
- The Five C’s of an Effective Policymaker Meeting
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
- The Mary Poppins Guide to Making the Best Use of Nonprofit Downtime
- The New Tax Law: How It Will Impact Your Nonprofit Organization and 5 Solutions to Mitigate Your Risk
- The Woman in the Arena
- Top Sources of Board-CEO Conflict and How to Resolve Them
- Vision vs. Mission: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Organization’s Vision
- Walk the Line, SEA-Style
- Want to Stand Out from the Crowd? Social Marketing Lessons from “Don’t Mess with Texas”
- What Did We Learn from the Giving USA Report?
Strategic Planning
- 2014 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Building Better Nonprofits
- 2015 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on Talent Management
- 2016 Nonprofit Trends: Focusing on System Change
- 5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Organization’s Performance Through Core Values
- 5 Things Every Social Impact Leader Needs to Know Before Their Next Hire
- A Check-Up for Your Nonprofit: Avoiding Organizational Decline or Failure
- A Recipe for Success: How a Hybrid Strategic Business Plan Can Help Your Organization
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Can Your Nonprofit Manage a Crisis? Follow These 5 Tips to Hold onto Your Halo in a Crisis
- Combating Leadership Fatigue in the Social Sector
- Do Competitions Help or Hinder Social Enterprises?
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Fail Early, Fail Cheaply: 4 Steps to Vetting New Opportunities for Your Organization
- From Planning to Action: Action Plans Help You Get Things Done After Your Strategic Plan
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Hoping for the Best While Preparing for the Worst: Nonprofit Risk Management Q&A with former Secret Service Agent James Savage
- How Can Nonprofits be Agile?
- How Nonprofit Leaders Can Ensure Every Part of Their Organization Advances Social Change
- How the Yanny vs. Laurel Debate Can Help Us Practice Conflict Resolution Skills in the Social Sector
- How to Manage Change in Your Nonprofit
- How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
- How to Use Theory of Change to Map Your Nonprofit’s North Star
- If You Can Write a Grant, You CAN Write a Nonprofit Business Plan
- Is Your Nonprofit on Life Support? A Financial Check-up for the Social Sector
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keep Calm and Plan On! Scenario Planning Lessons from the British Royal Wedding
- Minding the Gap with Dashboards
- Not-So-Scary Social Media Steps
- Passing the Torch to a New Generation: Why Succession Planning is Crucial to the Social Sector
- Q&A on COVID-19
- Social Alchemy: Transforming Problems into Social Change
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2018
- State of Social Enterprise 2016 (Crowd-sourced!)
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- Top 5 Traits of Successful Social Enterprises
- Top Questions on Social Enterprise
- Top Questions on Strategic Planning
- Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Risk Management in the Social Sector
- Vision vs. Mission: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Organization’s Vision
- What You Should Do Instead of Working on a New Nonprofit Strategic Plan This Year
- Where is Your Organization in the Nonprofit Lifecycle? Why All Nonprofits Need This Crucial Piece of the Puzzle
- Which Strategic Plan is Right for You?
Summer Reading
- Celebrating Fan Favorites and TrendSpotters
- Dog Days of Summer 2014
- Dog Days of Summer 2015
- Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2021
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2018
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2019
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2020
System Change
- 2017 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting our Focus to Entrepreneurial Thinking in Nonprofits
- 2021 Nonprofit Trends: Shifting Our Focus to Upstream Nonprofit Work
- 4 Trends from the Aspen Ideas Festival to Spark Social Change
- 7 Actions Nonprofits Can Take to Be Anti-Racist Organizations
- Advancing Equity as a Core Value of the Social Sector
- After COVID-19: Top 10 Aspirational Goals for Daring Greatly in the Social Sector
- Behavioral Economics Meets the Social Sector
- Collaboration Q&A
- Do’s and Don’ts of Remote Leadership
- Etiquette for Effective and Enjoyable Online Meetings
- Expert Advice on How to Reopen Your Nonprofit
- Falling in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
- Fast Facts on Federal COVID-19 Stimulus for Nonprofits
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- Hoping for the Best While Preparing for the Worst: Nonprofit Risk Management Q&A with former Secret Service Agent James Savage
- How Can Nelson Mandela Help You Put Your Dreams into Action?
- How Nonprofits & Social Entrepreneurs Can Answer the President’s Call to Action
- Learning in the Age of the Coronavirus
- On Being a Social Entrepreneur: A Decade of Lessons Learned
- Redefining the Path to Success: Moving from Ego-thinking to Eco-thinking in the Social Sector
- Social Impact Exchange LIVE
- Social TrendSpotter’s Summer Superlatives 2020
- State of Social Enterprise 2016 (Crowd-sourced!)
- System Change: Do We Fix the System or Change it Altogether?
- The Collaboration Commandments
- The Color of Money
- The Great Nonprofit RESET: Nonprofit Trends & Actions for 2021
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Opportunity Zones
- Top 5 Takeaways from Aspen Ideas Festival: Spotlight Health
- Want to Stand Out from the Crowd? Social Marketing Lessons from “Don’t Mess with Texas”
- What Are PRIs (Program-Related Investments) & MRIs (Mission-Related Investments)?
- What I Learned from John McCain
- Who is Your Greatest Competition? How Your Family Tree Can Help You Uncover (Sometimes Surprising) Answers
- Why Bottom-Up Program Design Is the Future
Thanksgiving
Theory of Change
- 3 Steps to Make Evaluation Plans Easy
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- Hot Nonprofit Trends for Summer 2021
- How to Use Theory of Change to Map Your Nonprofit’s North Star
- Inspiring an Impact Mindset in the Social Sector
- Is Your Nonprofit Sustainable and What Does Nonprofit Sustainability Really Mean?
- Keep Calm and Plan On! Scenario Planning Lessons from the British Royal Wedding
Top 5 Annual List
- 3 New Year’s Resolutions for the Social Sector
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2017
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2018
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2019
- Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2020
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2013
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2014
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2015
- The Holiday Hustle: Top 5 TrendSpotter Favorites of 2016
