One of the most important roles a design firm play as a strategic partner to a client is to identify and politely probe at the client's assumptions. In her latest, Constructive's McGuire explains what that looks like....

Murphy, a communications and outreach strategist at Constructive, shares some key takeaways from this year's Communications Network conference in San Francisco and why it was so special.... 

Nonprofits engaged in strategic planning and brand strategy work often struggle to translate the internal memos and documents generated by the process into broader organizational change, but an internal branding process can turn that around in a hurry — and deliver additional benefits to boot....

While there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution to capacity building, there are commonalities in the approaches that have proven to be successful. Community Wealth Ventures' Taylor and Bartczak share five....

The lack of board diversity in the nonprofit sector is glaring, writes Brennan, but taking steps to close the gap is not as difficult as you might think....

In his latest, Feldmann shares his thoughts on the tension between new and old and multiple organizations trying to achieve impact on the same issue....

The large, complex problems of our times are deeply interwoven with today's global political economy, write Shaffer and Troll, and that is the "system" that systems change philanthropy needs to address....

To respond effectively to the forces that create systems change, argues Lemma, funders have to be willing to change themselves....

Increasingly, wealthy Russians are giving to charity, but their choice, writes Schimpfössl, is often informed by political and social expediency....

Pearl, executive director of The Blue Card, offers three reasons why taking a nonprofit job as a first job could mean gaining great career development opportunities while working for a mission you believe in....

In the latest installment of MyCareer, Suzanne Elliott shares dating-inspired advice designed to help your organization find the "perfect" board member....

What's in a job description? More than you might think. Envision Consulting's Tiffany Garcia looks at six common mistakes managers make when crafting their job descriptions....

Low-income communities need ownership over the resources that flow into them and defenses to protect them from feckless funders and footloose capital, argues Margulies. In an age when the failure of unregulated capitalism is becoming more evident every day, options like the neighborhood trust cannot be implemented quickly enough....

With wages stagnating, benefits shrinking, and personal debt increasing, financial precarity has become widespread in the United States, writes Leana, but the philanthropic community has been and can continue to be a catalyst for solutions to the problem.... 

Whether you are doing advocacy for the first time or revamping an existing program, the recipe for success, writes van Geldern, requires a careful balance between analytical thinking and action.... 

Nonprofits have been slow to tap the power of data science, writes Kohlhepp, in part because of cost, which is where data science volunteers come in....

Jackson, a digital content manager at TechSoup, tells you everything you need to know about working in and sharing documents through "the cloud"....

Working from home provides benefits for both the employee and employer, but like all good things there are also drawbacks....