To Hire In or Out? That is the question.
When running a nonprofit organization, every decision carries significant weight, especially when it comes to staffing. The choice between hiring an employee (hiring in) or a consultant (hiring out) is significant, with numerous factors to consider.
Maximizing Your Orgs Grant-Seeking Journey
Applying to every grant you find isn’t an efficient way to fund an organization. Achieve success by strategically planning your grant-seeking efforts.
Investing Beyond Grades, Graduation, and College: Developing the Whole Child
Before you submit your next grant application, here are some commonly asked funder questions that demonstrate impactful whole-learner programs to consider…
Announcement from the Fitzgerald Foundation
The Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation is pleased to announce a renewed strategic direction following a comprehensive planning process.
EOY For The Win!
This webinar that's all about finding the most effective techniques to spice up your end-of-year campaigns! Join Laura Hennighausen as she dives into the research studies and revealing the best tips and tools for securing donations.
Age & Work Styles in a Multi-Generational Workforce
For the first time ever there are five different generations in the workplace. Three Purpose Possible consultants discuss their experiences working in diverse environments and share how Purpose Possible's T.E.A.M. strategy has helped them better collaborate with colleagues.
Rhythm-Making For Fundraisers
Rhythms create processes, boundaries, and pave lanes for success. Taylor Johnson, Consultant with Purpose Possible, discusses Rhythm Making for nonprofits and how it can help fundraising teams become successful in planning, communication, donor relationships, and more.
Black Philanthropy Month
Every August, Black Philanthropy Month (and Black Business Month) celebrates Black-led and Black-serving organizations while also cultivating resources and pathways for growth, success, and awareness.
Designing Engaging Surveys That People Actually Want To Take
Traditional polling and surveys feel like work. In this presentation, Sarah and Laura explore ways to create surveys using play and backed by substantive survey methods, to create meaningful engagement opportunities.
Demystifying Asset Giving For Nonprofits
Assets are additional fundraising opportunities that are massively untapped by small to mid size nonprofits. From stocks, crypto and donor advised funds to endowments, learn more about how nonprofits should approach them, and why it should matter to you. Join us as Karen Houghton, CEO of @Infinite Giving and a Nonprofit Investment Advisor, guides us through asset giving for nonprofits!
Collaborations in Cultural Planning
Cultural planning is a public process in which representatives of a community undertake a comprehensive community assessment and create a plan of implementation for future cultural programming.
Burnout in Nonprofits
Purpose Possible hosted a webinar on May 17, 2023 to talk about burnout in nonprofits. With guests Patricia Duboise and Ike Ubasineke, Susannah Darrow led a discussion on how to identify burnout, how it affects our work, and how to combat it for individuals and teams.
Storytelling for Nonprofits
Ethical storytelling means sharing your story in a way that respects the dignity and humanity of the people you serve. It means being transparent about your intentions and methods and ensuring that your content doesn't harm the very communities you're working to support.
Virginia Nonprofit Sector Report 2023
Much like the 2022 State of the Baltimore Nonprofit Sector released by T.Rowe Price Foundation in late 2022, this new report shows that the nonprofit sector in our region continues to be robust but needs significant capacity and leadership to continue to thrive. As a consulting firm in the DMV region, we are also seeing some of the most impactful nonprofits struggle with staffing, burnout, financial challenges, and a strategic vision for the next horizon.
Purpose Possible Core Values: How We Show Up Everyday
At Purpose Possible, we think a lot about how our firm shows up for our clients, our fellow team members, and our communities everyday. In 2020, before Purpose Possible was launched, our early consultants spent time establishing a set of core values to guide the purpose and vision for the firm. Since then we have revisited and refined those values every year to best reflect how we work and who we work with. Now, as a firm of over 40 consultants in nine states, our values are ever more present in our daily decision making.
Hiring Q&A with Lara and Katyra
Did you know that 76% percent of hiring managers admit attracting the right job candidates is their greatest challenge!
Lara and Katyra teamed up to answer questions, provide recommendations, and share insights into their experiences.
Susannah at the Science of Philanthropy Initiative Conference
In September, I had the opportunity to present at the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Science of Philanthropy Initiative Conference alongside our partner, Mailchimp. While one of our key takeaways from the conference was the realization that we did not take enough data analytics courses in school, others had some valuable takeaways for application in more practical fundraising efforts.
Collaborative Budgeting
How fiscal and development teams can work together to create a proactive budget for the next year.
Why Commit to Continuous Quality Improvement
In May, we began the conversation on the importance of committing to a formal Continuous Quality Improvement Strategy (CQI) with an initial blog post on this relevant topic. In it, we posed the question “Do you have a clear strategy on how to track, evaluate, and articulate your impact?” If you remain unsure of your answer to this question, we want to share four reasons on why you should invest in a strategy to affirm delivering mission-aligned successful programs are top of mind at your organization.
5 Tips For A Binge-worthy Nonprofit Newsletter
While social media can be a powerful tool for building awareness, it’s not great for getting people to actually take action. To build a relationship with your audience that motivates them to attend events, volunteer their time, or donate to the organization, an engaging newsletter can’t be beat.