Our Thinking

We write about what we're actually seeing inside development shops, not what the sector thinks is happening. Two current white papers, both free to download.

Perspectives from the field.

The Grants Playbook You Are Using Is Expired

Most grant losses aren't writing failures. They're targeting failures that happened weeks before anyone opened a blank document. Find out what the organizations out-raising their peers are doing differently — and how the entire grants environment has shifted in recent years. [Download the white paper]

92 percent of nonprofits use AI. Only 7 percent have seen any real improvement. The gap between those numbers is where your mission is leaving capacity on the table. This paper explains why governance and strategy are different documents, and what it looks like to write both. [Download the white paper]

Your AI Policy Is Not an AI Strategy