Insights
What we’re thinking and learning about right now and the news and issues that matter to nonprofits.
Feb 18 2020 | Nwando Obele and Cate Reynolds
Throughout TSNE’s journey to become a learning organization, we have consistently strived to center equity at the core of our work. As TSNE continues this forever journey, we’ll share how we have worked to imbue equity throughout our learning and evaluation... → More Feb 12 2020 | TSNE
Innovation is hard! In this video, Learning Lab Program Manager Lilo Altali explains why thinking differently can be hard and walks you through how to use the creative process to kickstart innovation in your nonprofit. → More Categories: Organizational Development
Jan 30 2020 | Lori Manzelli
TSNE MissionWorks is formally announcing the transfer of the property located at 260 Washington Street to the Urban Guild. → More Categories: Social Justice
Our Journey to Becoming a Learning Organization: TSNE’s Three Core Principles of Continuous Learning
Jan 21 2020 | Nwando Obele
Recent political, social, and economic shifts have created tremendous waves of uncertainty that threaten to engulf some nonprofits. During these precarious times, nonprofits must continue to develop and strengthen their organizational learning capacities. → More Categories: Learning and Evaluation, Organizational Development
Dec 16 2019 | Lilo Altali
In November of 2018, TSNE launched the Learning Lab, a two-year strategic initiative that will inform our social impact investment strategies. The Lab is exploring how we can better understand the capacity-building needs of under-resourced nonprofits... → More Categories: Learning and Evaluation
Nov 15 2019 | TSNE
With fewer than six months to “Census Day,” April 1, 2020, it’s time for nonprofits to mobilize to make sure our communities get their fair share of resources and representation. Learn more about how the 2020 Census works and will impact your community and... → More Categories: Diversity and Inclusion, Public Policy and Advocacy, Social Justice
Nov 15 2019 | TSNE
Karilyn Crockett, PhD, a Lecturer of Public Policy and Urban Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses themes from her new book People before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making, a fascinating... → More Categories: Diversity and Inclusion, Public Policy and Advocacy, Social Justice
Nov 15 2019 | TSNE
Embedding equity and inclusion in organizations is increasingly a priority for many nonprofits. Still, with a host of new research and learning on how to structure our policies and practices to support this work, many leaders struggle to maintain momentum... → More Categories: Diversity and Inclusion, Organizational Development
Oct 23 2019 | Lori Manzelli
Anyone who has worked in the nonprofit field has been asked, “How can we do more with less?” It’s a frustrating question with an impossible answer. Wouldn’t the better question be, “How can we do more with what we already have?”
This was the focus of the... → More Sep 20 2019 | Jenn Hayslett and Anne Peyton, CPF CFRE
"You had me at hello," a classic line from the movie Jerry Maguire, was in response to an extensive courting process. This wonderful one-liner is ironic for fundraisers — our donors say "HELLO" with their first gift, and yet by the 5th... → More Categories: Grants and Philanthropy