The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting the ways you have adapted to help Georgia meet the challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Find out to equip your board, leaders, and other stakeholders to utilize this powerful fundraising technique in preparation for any important campaign. 

Grants now available for emergency food and shelter services, literacy education, LGBTQ+ groups, pro bono financial planning, the arts in Atlanta, and much more.

Senior Consultant Kathy Keeley on the questions, options, and actions you must consider to ensure your nonprofit is able to absorb the shock of our present emergency, and come out on the other side even more relevant and ready to make an impact.

Intergenerational conflict in nonprofit boards can take many forms, but the underlying issues involve the same dynamics: generation-specific interests and beliefs, and how willing we are to hear and understand those outside our cohort.

State lawmakers are facing the biggest revenue shortfall in modern history. Find out what's at stake, and how nonprofits can help officials make the right choices, with insight from the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.

The latest Giving USA Report is out, with news of the first donation downturn in five years. Find out how Georgia nonprofits fared, and what they’re doing to adapt.

With the volume of work we take on as nonprofit pros, it's tempting to launch into the new year without more than a quick glance behind us. CEO Karen Beavor demonstrates what a longer look can show us.

For years, The Atlanta Shakespeare Company has been filling the house with a young and diverse audience. Find out the tactics they use to power their perpetually-renewing support base.

Getting people’s attention is a continuous challenge. Check out this list of mostly free design, visual & PR tools for your next fundraising campaign, event invite, or any other featured communication.

Finances are a multi-layered challenge, especially when your bottom line is a mission. Why outsourcing is a popular solution, and how to pick a trustworthy firm, from GCN partner Chazin & Co.

The spending cuts recommended in this year’s State and Federal budget proposals are bad news, but a good reminder: Every nonprofit needs to add their voice and expertise to the policy discussion.

NU instructor April Voris walks you through four ways to make the most of your always-on communication channel – an especially vital platform for outbreak-related emergency communications.

A six-step guide to “the ask” from some of Georgia’s experts in major gift cultivation, with tips for any request you might make of your most important supporters.

Exclusively for GCN member nonprofits, our Nonprofit University + ThinkHR Subscription gives you two seats in every one of NU's core curriculum classes, unlimited on-call HR support from certified pros, and more.

Easy, upbeat, and service-oriented methods for inspiring stakeholders and prospects to give in a time of economic and personal uncertainty, from NU instructor and philanthropy director Brenda Johnson.

With tips for gathering data and aligning the team behind a common set of goals, GCN Senior Consultant Elizabeth Runkle kicks off a two-part walkthrough of the strategic planning process.

What makes Dad’s Garage Theatre uniquely positioned to respond in a crisis? Managing Director Lara Smith details four principles that have helped them succeed in fast-changing circumstances, each rooted in their commitment to improvisation.

One of the common problems we see in our work: a mismatch between the skills of the executive and the needs of the organization – such as the need to grow, change, or restructure due to changes in the environment.

In part two of this strategy planning recap, GCN Senior Consultant Elizabeth Runkle tackles the draft-and-refine process and board approval, then get into the implementation plan – a critical aspect that’s too often overlooked.

Reduce the stress and cost of your next audit, head off audit-season issues, and automate best practices with these tips from nonprofit accounting experts Chazin & Company.

If you’re serious about retention, it's critical to solicit employee involvement directly, and give them a voice in the organization's retention initiatives.