What Do You Know series continues with the interview portion from our seventh installment from the series. STL Nonprofit News’ President/CEO Larry Levin talks with Mark Witzling, Craft Alliance Executive Director offering insight into how nonprofits make real estate choices in a conversation about “The Meaning of Space.”  View the interview here. As a nonprofit leader, you may not have a background in real estate, but may need to make a decision about your organizations’ location and whether it helps fulfill the mission. This interview offers an in-depth discussion about what “The Meaning ..read more

The Meaning of Space by Mark Witzling, Craft Alliance Executive Director Nonprofit organization leaders wear many hats and focus on multiple priorities simultaneously. It’s what we do in pursuit of our mission. Most of us do not come from a real estate background or have experience in making organizational decisions about our physical spaces. In fact, major organizational decisions about our locations are most often likely to be generational, meaning that we may make these decisions only once in our tenure. What is important in my view, is less about the important financial decision-making inv ..read more

What Do You Know:  The Nonprofit Leadership Access Video here and Article by Barry Rosenberg, MSW, Professor of Practice Do we have enough future nonprofit leaders, and will they be sufficiently trained to lead? Two realities frame the critical necessity to expand and invest in nonprofit management and leadership training. As to whether we will have enough leaders, two studies ignited widespread hand-wringing about an impending deficit. In 2006, Thomas Tierney (2006) projected the need for 640,000 new nonprofit executives over a 10-year period, or 2.4 times the number then employed. Then ..read more

What Do You Know:  The Nonprofit Leadership Crisis by Barry Rosenberg, MSW, Professor of Practice Do we have enough future nonprofit leaders, and will they be sufficiently trained to lead? Two realities frame the critical necessity to expand and invest in nonprofit management and leadership training. As to whether we will have enough leaders, two studies ignited widespread hand-wringing about an impending deficit. In 2006, Thomas Tierney (2006) projected the need for 640,000 new nonprofit executives over a 10-year period, or 2.4 times the number then employed. Then in 2011, Cornelius, Moy ..read more

For What Do You Know’s 5th installment, STL Nonprofit News’ Larry Levin talks with Liz Deichmann, Data and Research Manager and Paul Sorenson, Interim Co-Director from UMSL’s Community Innovation and Action Center, about the St. Louis Regional Nonprofit Indicators report co-authored with St. Louis Regional Data Alliance. Watch Larry’s interview with Ms. Deichmann and Paul Sorenson. The St. Louis Regional Data Alliance and UMSL’s Community Innovation and Action Center released in September 2021, the most comprehensive, rigorous report on the St. Louis region’s nonprofit sector to date. The repo ..read more

What Do You Know series continues with the interview portion from our fourth installment from the series. STL Nonprofit News’ President/CEO Larry Levin talks with expert Dayna Stock CEO The Rome Group for an in depth interview discussing the 2021 Philanthropic Landscape.  View the interview here. If you are a development professional looking at sluggish fundraising reports and wondering what to do about your fall event, you are not alone. Less than 50% of St. Louis area nonprofits expect increases in fundraising totals this year versus last, according to the most recent annual Philanthrop ..read more

2021 Philanthropic Landscape If you are a development professional looking at sluggish fundraising reports and wondering what to do about your fall event, you are not alone. Less than 50% of St. Louis area nonprofits expect increases in fundraising totals this year versus last, according to the most recent annual Philanthropic Landscape Survey conducted by The Rome Group, a St. Louis-based nonprofit consulting firm. The survey, conducted online between May 13 and June 7, examined fundraising outcomes, sources and strategies of St. Louis area nonprofits for the year 2020. A total of 202 organiz ..read more

Interested in a new website for your nonprofit? STL Nonprofit News’ President/CEO Larry Levin interviews our website developer and sponsor Beanstalk Web Solutions’ Owner/Founder Tim Hebel about the best practices for building a new website or improving your organization’s current site. Interview with Tim Hebel, Owner/Founder at Beanstalk Web Solutions The post Sponsor’s Corner: Beanstalk Web Solutions appeared first on STL Non Profit News ..read more

The interview portion of our third installment of What Do You Know includes STL Nonprofit News’ President/CEO Larry Levin conducting an in depth video interview with coaching expert Nadine Kouba about the benefits of coaching for a nonprofit. View video here. The What Do You Know installment also includes two separate columns by experts Nadine Kouba, a certified professional executive coach who also serves as President of ICF St. Louis Chapter, and Dawn Newman a ICF certified coach and Ph.D. in coaching. Last year, the International Coaching Federation made its Gift of Coaching available for n ..read more

Nonprofit leaders are known for passion for the organization’s mission and an entrepreneurial spirit of creatively applying limited resources while addressing monumental challenges. COVID-19 caused disruptions and constant change leaving people feeling disconnected, overwhelmed and exhausted. In an effort to support St. Louis area nonprofit leaders dealing with unprecedented change, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) St. Louis Coaches launched a “2020 Gift of Coaching” program providing four hours of pro bono executive and professional coaching. Thirty nonprofit leaders expressed inte ..read more