2025 is shaping up to be full of surprises. How will the best nonprofits navigate and thrive? We’ve refreshed our consulting offerings to help nonprofit clients address emerging needs.
Read moreThe Other Thing that Eats Strategy for Breakfast
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?
Read moreNonprofit Management Truths and Myths Revisited
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.
Read moreFive Ways to Improve Employee Retention Without Spending a Dollar
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.
Read moreInflation is here. Are you ready?
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.
Read moreFall Training Workshops: Looking at the Big Picture
PIM is offering two workshops looking at big picture strategy this fall, in partnership with the Sustainability Network and the Land Trust Alliance.
Read moreThe Pandemic's Contrasting Effects
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.
Read moreSurvey of Nonprofit Leaders Paints a Picture of Resilience
PIM Group conducted a survey of nonprofit leaders about the impacts of COVID on their organizations and themselves. The results might surprise you.
Read moreStrengthening Environmental NGOs through Deep Partnership and Alignment
Environmental NGOs are fighting massive challenges. We summarize deep partnership and alignment structures that can prepare organizations for the long-haul.
Read moreThe Diversity Issue No One Wants to Talk About
When we talk about “diversity,” what do we mean? Race, ethnicity, gender, and occasionally age. But there’s another diversity issue that’s harder to tackle, and it’s not going away.
Read moreSilver Linings Playbook: Taking the Good from 2020
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.
Read moreAnatomy of a Successful Merger
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.
Read moreGliding Through Calamity
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.
Read moreThree Questions to Consider About Nonprofit Merger
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.
Read moreStaff Diversity: A Case Study
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.
Read moreCalm Before the Storm
The COVID-19 era is settling in, but nonprofits should not get too comfortable. The financial storm hasn’t hit yet. It could be brutal, and the time to prepare is now.
Read moreUpcoming Webinar Training for Nonprofit Leaders
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.
Read moreRemembering a Forgotten Massacre
June 1, 1921 is a day that should live in infamy. But it can’t if no one knows the story. The Tulsa massacre isn’t part of history books, and that fact says a lot about systemic racism in the U.S. It runs deep, and nonprofits can play a role in its demise.
Read moreNonprofits Face a Financial Crisis: You Can Craft a Survival Guide
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.
Read moreAu Canada: We're Open for Business
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.
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