Many grants management systems are discouraging people from applying. By the end of this article, you’ll have 7 tangible ways to fix that.

How you start a project is just as important as how you finish it. Here’s how See What I Mean philanthropy consultant Kerry McHugh “starts” in 4 areas with her clients: conversations, onboarding, check-ins, and building trust.

We asked our team of nonprofit consultants for their best end-of-year (fiscal year!) team questions. Here are the 6 they keep coming back to.

Data never tells the whole story. People do. Jenna Hoover, CNP, shares four ways to keep your data practices grounded in relationships, not extraction.

There’s a “new” type of segmentation that addresses the issues of the old tiering system while helping you sort your agencies into helpful groups that get targeted types of support. At SWIM, we think it's a meaningful shift, and food banks are putting it into practice. Here’s what it looks like.

When Harvesters partnered with SWIM to do a Service Area Assessment and Network Assessment across their 27-county region in Missouri and Kansas, Jury Paulson and his team got to step back and see that wider picture. What they found changed how Harvesters works.

If you have just finished a strategic plan, or you are sitting on one right now, consider these five moments where your strategic plan can become part of your daily operations.

I’ve spent 10+ years in and around philanthropy since then as program officer, board member, family foundation trustee, advisor, and consultant. Here are five thingsI wish I’d known when I built that very first grantmaking process.

Read one food bank's step-by-step path to AI clarity: a committee, a small policy update, and a framework that actually got leadership aligned.

Food as Medicine expert Amy Haynes will share the best methods for getting a FAM program started in your food bank. See how Food as Medicine methods are changing long-term health outcomes for people who face both food insecurity and nutrition insecurity.