




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.
A couple of months ago I submitted the paper “Using Organizational Theory Metaphors to Solve Nonprofit Issues” to present at a nonprofit academic conference and it was recently rejected. This was the first time I was rejected to present at a nonprofit academic conference. Surprisingly, I wasn’t upset by this rejection because four people reviewed [...]
This month was really tough academically. I am taking three courses this semester and the intensity of these courses hit me all at once. I received several graded assignments from my professors at the same time all with the same critiques — the content of my assignments were fine but my writing was wordy, lacked [...]
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 [...]
