Learning

New Advocacy Toolkit Launch: Build a Movement (BAM!)

New Advocacy Toolkit Launch: Build a Movement (BAM!)

Knowledge is power, and nonprofits certainly have a lot of knowledge. The trick is to get that knowledge to the people who need it to make good policy decisions. How can a nonprofit communicate ...
What Would It Take? Train the Trainer Continues

What Would It Take? Train the Trainer Continues

I keep a creased and faded flip chart page on my wall. At the top it says, “What Could We Do? What Would It Take?” It comes from a November 2017 event at which we invited consultants and those ...
New e-book on how to design conferences

New e-book on how to design conferences

Hot off the press: “Conferences That Make a Difference,” co-authored by Washington Nonprofits Associate Director, Nancy Bacon! Do you organize an annual conference? Are you looking to deepen ...
Go Deeper On Your Learning

Go Deeper On Your Learning

I think a lot about a metaphor my education professor used to talk about learning: A learning program is like a fence. A strong fence has posts that go deep enough to reach solid, stabilizing ...
Starting a Nonprofit: New toolkit available!

Starting a Nonprofit: New toolkit available!

There are 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States. Washington typically sees 4,000 new nonprofits formed each year. How do we make sure people have what they need to think about the ...
Effective trainers: a key element to building a strong nonprofit sector

Effective trainers: a key element to building a strong nonprofit sector

“Thank you! These workshops gave me so much useful information, tangible information to use!” You need to know a lot to run a nonprofit organization. You need a well-honed set of skills and ...
Introducing “Now What?”

Introducing “Now What?”

We nonprofit people face the ebb and flow of good and bad fortune. Our ability to achieve our mission is not always up to us. The stars align—or don’t – and things happen that we need to respond ...
What do you hope to achieve this year? Start there when thinking about what to learn.

What do you hope to achieve this year? Start there when thinking about what to learn.

January is a time when we think about goals, aspirations, new initiatives, and strategy. We hope for success knowing that the busyness of the day-to-day will soon distract us from long term ...

Cross Promotion

Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. 

Cross Promotion

Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings.