2025 is shaping up to be full of surprises. How will the best nonprofits navigate and thrive? We’ve refreshed our consulting offerings to help nonprofit clients address emerging needs.
Read moreThe Other Thing that Eats Strategy for Breakfast
It's hiding in plain sight. One of the biggest constraints nonprofit leaders face is a lack of generative thinking time. That's where the energy of successful organizations comes from. We need to make room for that time. Then, how can we best use it?
Read moreNonprofit Management Truths and Myths Revisited
Conventional wisdom abouts in the nonprofit sector. But what “wisdom’ is true and what’s myth? We take a tour through the research for a little truth-finding and myth-busting.
Read moreFive Ways to Improve Employee Retention Without Spending a Dollar
Everyone’s freeting over employee retention these days, and nonprofits don’t have a lot of money to throw around. Here are five proven ways to improve retention without hurting your budget.
Read moreInflation is here. Are you ready?
Inflation presents an unfamiliar challenge to nonprofit leaders and managers. Here are five tangible steps you can take to mitigate its impact of your organization and those you serve.
Read moreFall Training Workshops: Looking at the Big Picture
PIM is offering two workshops looking at big picture strategy this fall, in partnership with the Sustainability Network and the Land Trust Alliance.
Read moreThe Pandemic's Contrasting Effects
Our survey results show a “tale of two cities” in the nonprofit world now, with contrasting effects of the pandemic. What nonprofit leaders should do next depends on which city they’re in.
Read moreSurvey of Nonprofit Leaders Paints a Picture of Resilience
PIM Group conducted a survey of nonprofit leaders about the impacts of COVID on their organizations and themselves. The results might surprise you.
Read moreSilver Linings Playbook: Taking the Good from 2020
2020 wasn’t all bad. Here are a few good things we can take with us, whether we’re ready to say “thanks” or not.
Read moreStaff Diversity: A Case Study
This is a case study showing how one successful nonprofit organization diversified its staff. Promoting diversity proved to be smart business, independent of any social or political motives. Tangible HR management practices are replicable in other organizations.
Read moreUpcoming Webinar Training for Nonprofit Leaders
Responding to the COVID-driven financial crisis, we’re offering a new webinar, Financial Strategy in Reponse to Crisis, for nonprofit leaders. Offerings are summarized here.
Read moreAu Canada: We're Open for Business
Public Interest Management Canada is open for business! The Canadian sister of Seattle-based PIM Group will provide high-caliber management consulting services to Canadian nonprofits, with a focus on financial health and sustainability.
Read moreFive Board Dysfunctions that Create Chaos
Nonprofit boards can be engaged in the wrong ways, and this can harm the organization. Looking at recent research findings, this article explores 5 dysfunctions of boards commonly found in less successful organizations.
Read moreFigures Don't Lie*
Team Trump claims it’s fine to direct government business to his resort. It’s not, and their financial argument is not only wrong, it’s deliberately misleading. This corrupt intent has nothing to do with nonprofits, but our sector has a strangely similar problem of often not getting to the true story.
Read moreReady for the Recession?
Nonprofits will be deeply affected by a recession. This article discusses what impacts are likely, and how nonprofit leaders can plan proactively, to help emerge stronger than before.
Read moreUpcoming Training in Oregon and BC
Public Interest Management Group conducts a wide range of management training workshops for nonprofit executives. We have two upcoming sessions in Oregon and British Columbia.
Read moreNonprofit Leaders Weigh-In on Paths to Improved Management
Public Interest Management Group and the Nonprofit Association of Oregon partnered on a research study on best management practices. We set up a series of six focus groups in diverse geographies across Oregon. Several important themes emerged from these discussions.
Read moreTactics Won’t Substitute for Strategy
Organizational strategy is crucial to success, but only when it has the right balance of vision and details, and words can get in the way. Strategy is often confused with tactics, and that’s when things can go badly.
Read moreEmbracing a World in Flux
The world is changing rapidly, and Public Interest Management Group’s clients are on the leading edge of change and solutions. 2018 had many highlights.
Read moreAbout Those Details: Devilish or Deified?
Some say the devil is in the details, but that expression used to say the exact opposite. People often shy away from detailed work, yet successful organizational management can require embracing them. So what’s up with that old cliche?
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