Author: Stephen Pratt
Contingency Planning In 5 (not so easy) Steps
If your inbox looks anything like mine, there’s lots of talk about contingency planning. You can attend webinars, sit through Zoom presentations, download an app. Maybe you have time for all that, b... Read More
How To Manage Yourself Through A Quarantine
In my previous post, I described how I managed a nonprofit through the Great Recession while also battling mantle cell lymphoma. After six rounds of chemo, I entered the bone marrow transplant unit at... Read More
Precedented
Unprecedented is a commonly used term to describe our current moment. The uncertainty and the sense that we’ve never been through anything like this before only adds to the unease bordering on sheer... Read More
New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Leaders
Happy New Year. By now, you’ve read or heard dozens of takes on the annual, arbitrary resolution trope—everything from weight loss with Oprah, to resolution memes, to sardonic admissions of failur... Read More
What’s A Nonprofit Capital Market? And Why Does It Matter?
Swift and immediate response from philanthropy: “What are nonprofit capital markets?” Thus began a Twitter exchange last month, with my good friend and former client, Rick Moyers. Rick had ... Read More
If It Matters, It Can Be Measured
If you’re working to bring about big systems change, how will you know you’re getting anywhere? For organizations working to engage citizens in democratic life, can success really be measured? Is ... Read More
You’re on the Performance Measurement Train. Now What?
The good news: more nonprofits are taking performance measurement seriously. We had a standing-room-only crowd for our workshop on “Demystifying Performance Measurement” at the Massachusetts Nonpr... Read More
What Nonprofit Leaders Think about Measurement
By Stephen Pratt, President, Impact Catalysts and Francesca Moree, Analyst, Impact Catalysts We spent the better part of last year talking with nonprofit and foundation leaders about performance meas... Read More