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Make Better Decisions with Clean Data

Every single nonprofit staff or board member of all time has struggled with data in one way or another. Who among us has not stressed...

How To Invite Others to Join Your Cause

Creating Change through Invitation Nonprofit organizations possess an incredible power to connect people—not only with each other, but to...

Change Management: Strategies for Success

Kristin Raack, Principal at AltruNext, was recently featured as a guest author with tips about change management. The full article was...

Make No Small Plans!

Here in Chicago, we love Daniel Burnham, the renowned city planner who envisioned and built the 1893 World’s Fair among other notable...

Stop Scapegoating Your Board

I’ve stood around the proverbial watercooler at enough nonprofits to have heard this tired story: “But the board never does anything…” or...

Disrupting the Status Quo

Philanthropy means “the love of humankind” which is how an idealist like me ended up in this work. But, many of our philanthropic systems...

How to Navigate Change without Losing Your Mind

They say the one constant in life is change. Nonprofits are always experiencing change. At one point in 2019, every single AltruNext...

Fostering a Culture of Philanthropy with the Donor Development Cycle

The Donor Development Cycle is one of the most commonly used conceptual frameworks with nonprofit development. It represents the process...