Hiring a Consultant? 4 Steps to Be Ready

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September 3, 2025

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Subject: Hiring a Consultant? 4 Steps to Be Ready

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Advice

Hiring a Consultant? 4 Steps to Success

By Geoffrey Hamlyn September 3, 2025

Before you sign a contract with a consulting service, check out these tips to help you get the most value out of the relationship.
Salaries

Gender Pay Gap Persists for Nonprofit CEOs and Could Worsen Amid DEI Backlash

By Stephanie Beasley September 3, 2025

Women make up the majority of CEOs at smaller organizations, but they represent less than one-third of CEOs at organizations with annual budgets of more than $50 million, according to a Candid report.
Fundraising

Nonprofits Hope Better Storytelling Will Bring More Donations

By Glenn Gamboa, AP Business Writer September 3, 2025

The Elevate Prize Foundation launched a production house earlier this year to tell more of those stories.

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Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

Their federal funding gone, local public broadcasters are cutting staff and programming, sharing resources, and mounting emergency fundraising drives. For many, their initial appeals have brought an outpouring of support from their audiences, but stations in less-wealthy areas still struggle to fill gaping budget holes. Industry insiders worry that the early fundraising momentum will eventually flag and that some vulnerable stations will ultimately close. (Associated Press)

More on Public Broadcasting

After Vote to Defund, What Will Happen to Alaska’s Public Radio Stations? (Inside Radio)
NPR and PBS Station Vermont Public Lays Off 14 Percent of Staff After Federal Funding Cuts (Boston Globe)

Cuts and Closures

Amid Trump Cuts, a N.H. Nonprofit Finds Another Way to Address Food Insecurity (Boston Globe)
Lutheran Social Services, Nonprofit That Assists Refugees, Laying Off Dozens in N. Va. (Washington Business Journal — subscription)
Smithsonian Latino Gallery Quietly Closes for Nine Months (Hyperallergic)
- Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda

More News and Opinion

OpenAI Thinks Its Critics Are Funded by Billionaires. Now It’s Going After Them (San Francisco Standard)
- Background from the Chronicle: How Philanthropy Built, Lost, and Could Reclaim the A.I. Race
They Call Themselves ‘Trashers.’ Together, They’re Cleaning L.A.’s Streets — and Finding Friendship (Los Angeles Times)
- Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofit Leaders Want More Volunteers but Say It Is Tough to Recruit Them
Supporting Religious Diversity on Campus Is a Surprising Consensus Among Faculty Across the Red-Blue Divide (Conversation)
- Background from the Chronicle: DEI May Be in Retreat, but Faith Leaders Are Demonstrating the Power of Diversity

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