




Heather is an experienced Nonprofit Manager, Researcher, Trainer, and Blogger. She teaches and presents on a variety of topics in the nonprofit sector and she participates on a variety of national nonprofit committees including the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition and Independent Sector's NGen Advisory Committee.
I have also written three nonprofit toolkits you can purchase on my website:
Starting a Nonprofit
Nonprofit Operations Toolkit
Setting up a Nonprofit Office
In this blog I write about nonprofit leadership, nonprofit careers, the nonprofit workforce, nonprofit technology, and nonprofit management education.
As many of you know I’ve run a few nonprofits over the course of my career. While running these organizations, I collected best practice resources that were very useful to my organization. The problem is I haven’t known how to share these useful links with other nonprofits…until now. In the past: I posted resources about [...]
Two amazing incoming doctoral students will be joining our team at the Caster Family Center for Nonprofit Research this fall. One doctoral student is an excellent quantitative researcher and the other is an excellent writer. I am looking forward to working with them and tapping into each of their individual areas of expertise. They are [...]
I just got back from conducting focus groups in Oregon and I got to spend time with the super fabulous staff at Idealist.org’s Portland, OR office. I’ve always been a fan of Idealist but meeting the Oregon Idealist team was the icing on the cake for me. The Idealist staff are amazing passionate people who [...]
One of the courses I am taking this semester is Organizational Theory. We are looking at organizations through the lenses of various metaphors. One of these metaphors is learning organizations. This fitting because one of the themes of Nonprofit day this year was learning organizations. The key note speakers of the conference Leslie and Heather, [...]
In an effort to be transparent during my PhD program I updated my website and posted my academic papers, presentations and lots of free toolkits, links, and resources for starting, running, and leading a nonprofit. I am a practitioner first and my goal is to do research and presentations that are relevant to nonprofit managers. [...]
