Insights
What we’re thinking and learning about right now and the news and issues that matter to nonprofits.
Oct 29 2017 | David Marino
One of my favorite topics as a communications leader is learning how to be authentic. It seems like a contradiction. How can you force yourself to be more natural? It’s often a challenge, but not impossible. → More Categories: Strategic Communications
Jul 21 2017 | Lyn Freundlich
There is no single right way to develop compensation practices. But clearly articulating organizational values related to compensation and benefits, and describing the ways in which they are reflected by practice, assures staff and stakeholders that... → More
Categories: Human Resources
Jun 28 2017 | P. Stewart Lanier
There is nothing like a good set of data to help us confront what is real, versus what we assume. The Building Movement Project recently released its Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap report based on data from over 4,000... → More
Categories: Diversity and Inclusion, Social Justice
Jun 19 2017 | Jennifer J.A. Fitch
Most days, my job at TSNE involves working with our fiscally sponsored projects using computers and calculators. Today though, my work in service to Gardening the Community involved using spades and wheelbarrows weeding a three-quarter acre plot at their farm... → More Categories: Social Justice, Workplace Culture
May 01 2017 | Sandy St. Louis
From LoPresti Park in East Boston to the steps of Beacon Hill, TSNE stood with our colleagues and friends to protest the current administration's divisive deportation and anti-immigrant strategies that have sparked a number of actions in the past 100... → More Categories: Public Policy and Advocacy, Social Justice, Workplace Culture
Apr 20 2017 | Kyle Farrell
As Practice Leader, Lyn has provided human resources consulting services to dozens of organizations, and has trained more than 3,000 other nonprofit professionals. → More Categories: Human Resources
Mar 29 2017 | Ning Jun Yuan
Asylum and immigrant rights organization presented on current legal landscape, rights, and resources for immigrants and supporters. → More Categories: Public Policy and Advocacy, Social Justice
Mar 29 2017 | Trina Jackson
Inclusion Initiative grantees among grassroots organizations working to create new possibilities that uplift communities and transform our economy! → More Categories: Diversity and Inclusion, Grants and Philanthropy, Social Justice
Mar 24 2017 | Sandy St. Louis
This joint report examines where Greater Boston nonprofits stand at a historic inflection point given the unprecedented volume of leadership transition within and outside the sector. → More Categories: Leadership
Mar 02 2017 | Lee Swislow
Sadly, there is much to be afraid of as we see the policies of the new administration roll out. Immigrants, Muslims, transgender youth have all seen attacks, and this is only the beginning of how the new administration’s policies are impacting people in our... → More Categories: Public Policy and Advocacy, Social Justice