The Need for Good Advice
Consultants are a huge and growing part of the nonprofit landscape. By 2018, some 1.8 million consultants will be at work in the United States—up 83 percent in a decade, the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
View ArticleNew Organizations Pose Challenges for Nonprofit Consultants
Some organizations have found a way to get the best out of the nonprofit and business worlds. A growing number of organizations combine business and nonprofit structures that offer them the best of...
View ArticleFoundation Seeks to Help Consultants Help Nonprofits
When most foundations want to strengthen the management of the organizations they support, they hire consultants to work with grantees. They figure that the consultants will help nonprofits grow in...
View ArticleBig Consultants Increasingly Turn to Nonprofit Clients
As nonprofits have grown in size, complexity, and number, many of the nation’s big management-consulting companies have stepped up their efforts to serve charities and foundations. Most of the help...
View ArticleHow Do Consultants Find Fresh Ideas?
Consultants are supposed to be thought leaders. To live up to that role, they are always searching for new ways to think about organizations, to serve their clients, and to distinguish themselves from...
View ArticleHard Economic Times Haven’t Dampened the Appeal of Nonprofit Consulting
The allure of corporate consulting may be on the decline, thanks to changes in the business environment as well as scandals like the indictment of Rajat K. Gupta, a former managing partner for McKinsey...
View ArticleWho We Are Today and Where We Came From
Every year at the Association of Fundraising Professionals conference, dozens of consultants and vendors exhibit their services and wares in the conference marketplace. Some have been doing this for...
View ArticleHow Nonprofit Consulting Differs Outside the United States
When I was in Bologna, Italy, in May, making a presentation at the Festival of Fundraising, I was reminded of two things: First, consulting is less accepted in other parts of the world than it is in...
View ArticleWhere to Find a Consultant: In Your Community or Elsewhere?
Among the decisions charities must make when it comes time to hire a fundraising consultant is whether to use someone local or someone outside the community. There are advantages to both. Locals...
View ArticleNonprofit Consulting Goes Global
As more governments move toward democracy and greater privatization, nongovernmental organizations are popping up in new places—and the worldwide marketplace for consultants to nonprofits is heating...
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