How to Do a Strategic Nonprofit SWOT Analysis

whitePaper | November 18, 2021

Your organization is here to help the world, but is your message clear enough to accomplish your goals? Can you clearly define the problem you are trying to solve? What is your organization’s culture? Do you trust your data?

whitePaper | January 11, 2023

The philanthropic sector is an ecosystem: a web of interdependent actors, infinitely variable, striving constantly to build something greater than the sum of its parts. The same is true in philanthropy. Each nonprofit, foundation, donor, community, or network is affected differently by our national and global zeitgeist. But as each player adapts to changes in that context, the sum of those many reactions can become a force of its own.

whitePaper | February 5, 2020

Melissa is former Global Fundraiser of the Year (IFC, 2011) and Australian Fundraiser of the Year (FIA, 2011). She has facilitated philanthropic giving across education, the arts and health, and worked with hundreds of donors in Australia, Asia and the United States. Melissa has led four fundraising programs from start-up to established, from Powerhouse Museum and Sydney Opera House in the arts, to University of Technology, Sydney and RMIT University, in education.

whitePaper | July 16, 2022

For many years, the charity watchdogs contributed to the myth that nonprofits should be spending 0% of their funding on professional staffing and operations. Nonprofit sector observers and researchers ultimately coined a name for this counterproductive level of frugality: the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle.2,3 In a nutshell, when an organization’s infrastructure is not funded or “fed” to the degree necessary for it to thrive, it cannot accomplish the work it was founded to do, and it chronically underperforms. The nonprofit itself is actually starving.

whitePaper | December 10, 2019

Ask most board members if they were told they’d be responsible for fundraising when they joined the board and you’ll hear a lot of no’s. Somewhere in the recruitment process, the fundraising part of their job got downplayed. Maybe it wasn’t you, maybe it was a board member who let them off the hook.

whitePaper | February 28, 2022

As we look forward to 2022, we can celebrate the resiliency and brilliance of the nonprofit sector. In this report, we share not just encouraging numbers from over 900 nonprofit finance leaders, but examples of creativity that allowed nonprofits to not just survive but thrive in 2021.