At the start of 2025, I made six predictions about where the nonprofit sector was headed. Now, halfway through 2026, it’s time to hold myself accountable — and tell you what I see coming for the rest of the year. Nobody in this sector likes to be wrong. And I REALLY don’t like it. But […]

The nonprofit sector has been using a word for decades as a substitute for thinking. The word is sustainability Ask a board member what it means. Diverse revenue. Ask a funder. Reducing reliance on grants. Ask an executive director working her third straight weekend because payroll is three weeks away. She won’t have an answer […]

It is June. For most organizations operating on a calendar fiscal year, that means one thing: the gap has arrived. Not the gap between what was planned and what was possible. That one has always been there. The gap between what the board approved in January and what the organization actually needed to make it […]

What Nonprofits Get Wrong About Tech — and How to Fix It (Especially When You’re Small and Stretched) Most nonprofits think they have a technology problem. They don’t. They have a decision problem. I’ve spent more than three decades in this sector. I started in organizations that tracked donors on 3×5 cards — literal boxes […]

Here is the number that should be on every technology vendor’s whiteboard: $1.5 trillion. That is the nonprofit sector’s annual contribution to the U.S. economy — roughly 5.3 percent of GDP. The sector employs nearly one in ten American workers. It is the third largest sector in the country. It serves millions of people, anchors […]