Consultant and motivational speaker Joanne G. Sujansky outlines fifteen cost-effective ways to make sure your organization's best employees remain happy, productive, and engaged....

Richard Moyers, director of the Nonprofit Sector Fund at the Meyer Foundation, shares lessons learned from the program's efforts to help nonprofits hire and work with consultants....

Cohen, president and chief investment officer of Community Capital Management, argues that mission-based investing is an excellent way to generate healthy returns as well as social benefit....

In the third installment of a new series about museums and green design, Sarah S. Brophy, a Maryland-based consultant specializing in grant writing for museums, discusses how museum boards and staff can "become green" along with their operations....

The second installment in our three-part series on sustainable museums covers how to model responsible environmental practices, and how going green can be helpful for collecting institutions....

Christine Sculati, a San Francisco-based consultant who works with social justice and environmental nonprofits, gives real-life examples of nonprofits using podcasting — at low cost — to reach their audiences....

In the first installment of a new series about museums and green design, Sarah S. Brophy, a Maryland-based consultant specializing in grant writing for museums, provides an overview of the funding landscape for museums thinking about going green....

In the fifth and final installment of our series on sustainable design for nonprofit organizations, Holly Lennihan, RA, LEED(®)AP, a project manager at Hickok Cole Architects in Washington, D.C., provides an overview of funding sources for your susta

In the fourth installment of our series on sustainable design for nonprofit organizations, Susan Pelczynski, IIDA, LEED®AP, a senior associate at Hickok Cole Architects in Washington, D.C., explains the value — economic and otherwise — of

In the third installment of our series on sustainable design for nonprofit organizations, Holly Lennihan, RA, LEED(®)AP, a project manager at Hickok Warner Cole Architects in Washington, D.C., explains how nonprofit organizations can use simple techn

In the second article of PND's new series on "green design" for the nonprofit sector, Tove Anderson, project manager at Hickok Cole Architects in Washington, D.C., looks at the LEED certification system and explains how green design is also smart design..

In the first installment of a new series devoted to sustainable design for nonprofit organizations, Yolanda Cole, AIA, LEED®AP, a principal at Hickok Warner Cole Architects in Washington, D.C., explains why a sustainable design approach to office spa

In the third and final installment in their series on competition in the nonprofit sector, David La Piana and Michaela Hayes, co-authors of Playing to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy, show you how to identify and strengthen your co

Realizing benefits from volunteers doesn't happen automatically. Dr. Lee Mizell, founder and principal of Lee Mizell Consulting, offers management strategies designed to maximize the contributions of your volunteers....

The second article in La Piana and Hayes' three-part series for PND on competitive strategies for nonprofits focuses on how to identify your customers, and how your organizaion uniquely serve them....

In his final article in a three-part series on the 3 A's of Public Life, Richard Harwood, founder and president of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, argues that, without a restored sense of authenticity, the efforts of America's public- and pri

In the first article of a three-part series, David La Piana and Michaela Hayes, authors of Play to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy, show how competitiveness works as a positive strategy in a sector where collaboration is usually

Dr. Lee Mizell, founder and principal of Lee Mizell Consulting, offers a range of HR strategies designed to take your organization to the next level....