




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.
I love working in the nonprofit sector!! There are many well paid jobs and career opportunities in nonprofit organizations. However…there are certain realities of working in nonprofit organizations that employees must understand in order to sustain a career in the nonprofit sector. The reality is the majority of nonprofits operate with budgets less than $500k; [...]
I believe there is a lot of confusion about nonprofit-focused master’s degree programs and I hope that this blog post will set the record straight. There are many different types of master’s degree programs that can be considered “nonprofit-focused” or “nonprofit education”. These types include: Master’s of Nonprofit Administration Master’s of Public Administration Master’s of [...]
Welcome. My name is Heather Carpenter. I am a well known blogger in the nonprofit sector. I started blogging about Nonprofit Operations in 2006 and quickly became known as the “Nonprofit Operations Guru.” I started my Nonprofit Leadership 601 blog in 2007 and my blog posts have been featured on the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Brazen [...]
