Paying attention to the way in which design feedback is delivered can have a real impact on the success of a project, writes Moaba. By implementing these five tips, you'll be doing your part to make sure that the design process is collaborative and projects run a little more smoothly....

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.... 

Jeb Banner, the founder and CEO of Boardable, a nonprofit board management software provider, offers some advice on how to find engaged board members....

Your nonprofit's messaging, writes Feldmann, should make clear what supporters can do and why they should do it while capturing what they believe in through stories that resonate with them....

The process of reimagining an organizational identity can produce both excitement and fear, writes Smith, but with a good design firm in your corner, it can be more the former and a lot less of the latter....

Working in the field of peace and conflict resolution involves a particular set of demands, write Bradford, Lyons, and Sansur. Funders need to be aware and willing to meet them....

Policy makers and philanthropists often take a color-blind approach to education, calling for policies they believe will support "all" children, writes Raikes. But suggesting that all children have the same shot at opportunity is not borne out by the facts....

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....

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....

As we work to advance racial equity in philanthropy, write Reid and Dean-Coffey, four practices can help us find our "learning edge" — the boundary of our comfort zone and competencies where change is truly transformative and freeing....

Is commercial-scale torrefaction — the process of turning wood scraps from forest-thinning operations into a coal substitute — a partial solution to climate change? Gaines, a freelance science journalist living in Seattle, reports....

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....

The job of nonprofit executive director is a big and often messy one, but Kosofsky's "nine buckets" framework can help you get it under control....

Laglos traveled to Portland in March for the annual Nonprofit Technology Network conference. Here are some key takeaways from the event....

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....