It's hiding in plain sight. One of the biggest constraints nonprofit leaders face is a lack of generative thinking time. That's where the energy of successful organizations comes from. We need to make room for that time. Then, how can we best use it?

Conventional wisdom abouts in the nonprofit sector. But what “wisdom’ is true and what’s myth? We take a tour through the research for a little truth-finding and myth-busting.

Everyone’s freeting over employee retention these days, and nonprofits don’t have a lot of money to throw around. Here are five proven ways to improve retention without hurting your budget.

Inflation presents an unfamiliar challenge to nonprofit leaders and managers. Here are five tangible steps you can take to mitigate its impact of your organization and those you serve.

PIM is offering two workshops looking at big picture strategy this fall, in partnership with the Sustainability Network and the Land Trust Alliance.

Our survey results show a “tale of two cities” in the nonprofit world now, with contrasting effects of the pandemic. What nonprofit leaders should do next depends on which city they’re in.

PIM Group conducted a survey of nonprofit leaders about the impacts of COVID on their organizations and themselves. The results might surprise you.

Environmental NGOs are fighting massive challenges. We summarize deep partnership and alignment structures that can prepare organizations for the long-haul.

2020 wasn’t all bad. Here are a few good things we can take with us, whether we’re ready to say “thanks” or not.

We’ve documented a nonprofit merger from start to finish, in all its nuances. The result is a case study that has resulted in a thriving Wisconsin chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Pandemic. Global warming. Racial reckoning. Economy in tatters. Nonprofit management is a unique challenge in 2020. Here are 5 practical tips for leading your organization in a time of turmoil.

Time to broach the M-Word? Merger is a strategy many nonprofits should be thinking about. I recommend that organizational leaders consider three fundamental questions as a conversation-starter.

This is a case study showing how one successful nonprofit organization diversified its staff. Promoting diversity proved to be smart business, independent of any social or political motives. Tangible HR management practices are replicable in other organizations.

Responding to the COVID-driven financial crisis, we’re offering a new webinar, Financial Strategy in Reponse to Crisis, for nonprofit leaders. Offerings are summarized here.

The nonprofit sector faces a bona fide financial crisis in the COVID era. Here, we chart a process by which leaders of nonprofit organizations can craft their own survival guides.

Public Interest Management Canada is open for business! The Canadian sister of Seattle-based PIM Group will provide high-caliber management consulting services to Canadian nonprofits, with a focus on financial health and sustainability.

Nonprofit boards can be engaged in the wrong ways, and this can harm the organization. Looking at recent research findings, this article explores 5 dysfunctions of boards commonly found in less successful organizations.

Team Trump claims it’s fine to direct government business to his resort. It’s not, and their financial argument is not only wrong, it’s deliberately misleading. This corrupt intent has nothing to do with nonprofits, but our sector has a strangely similar problem of often not getting to the true story.

Nonprofits will be deeply affected by a recession. This article discusses what impacts are likely, and how nonprofit leaders can plan proactively, to help emerge stronger than before.

Public Interest Management Group conducts a wide range of management training workshops for nonprofit executives. We have two upcoming sessions in Oregon and British Columbia.

Managing a baseball team has a lot more in common with managing an organization than you might think. We fondly recall Gene Mauch, a manager known for innovation and season-ruining catastrophes. We can learn from summers past.

There’s a big hidden cost that nonprofits often ignore: the opportunity cost of decisions. Failure to consider this can result in poor decisions and/or allocation of resources. Fortunately, there are clear methods to incorporate opportunity cost into strategic decision-making and planning.

We are, collectively speeding toward a cliff, the emerging environmental crisis. But our society shows little inclination to make major changes. Why is that? More importantly, how can we change this catastrophic trend?

Public Interest Management Group and the Nonprofit Association of Oregon partnered on a research study on best management practices. We set up a series of six focus groups in diverse geographies across Oregon. Several important themes emerged from these discussions.

Organizational strategy is crucial to success, but only when it has the right balance of vision and details, and words can get in the way. Strategy is often confused with tactics, and that’s when things can go badly.

The world is changing rapidly, and Public Interest Management Group’s clients are on the leading edge of change and solutions. 2018 had many highlights.

When it comes to financial data, less is definitely more. But what data is essential? In this entry I discuss how to find that essence and how to use it to your advantage in managing a nonprofit organization.