Never have so many organizations brought to the brink of financial calamity by delays in contract registration and payment by New York City and State. Outrageous delays that are seldom reported since the nonprofits fear that going public would only make things worse. (And who would they complain…
In this new article—Sometimes a Lender or a Borrower Be: The Dos and Don’ts of PRIs—SeaChange and the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund discuss their experience working together as a lender and a borrower, and the lessons they learned that might be relevant to others.
SeaChange is please to announce the launch of the Transformational Partnerships Fund (TPF). The new fund will provide colleges and universities support to explore student-centric partnerships and collaborations that could meaningfully transform how they operate and enhance their ability to provide reliable, high-quality educational opportunities for students. TPF…
In this new article—Not More, Better: Reframing the Problematic Dynamics of Government Funding—we describe how the problematic dynamic between nonprofits and government might be reframed to mutual advantage in the wake of COVID.
While many parts of the economy have been transformed, the nonprofit world has not yet experienced profound impacts from technology. Outsourcing, offshoring, the replacement of people by technology, and widespread technological unemployment have been rare. Most nonprofits operate largely the way they did 30 years ago, albeit with…
John MacIntosh, Managing Partner, served as a panelist on Combined Jewish Philanthropies’ “Launching Sustained Collaborations and Mergers” webinar on October 20, 2020. Watch a recording of the webinar here. In the face of recovery, when nonprofits will be called on to do more — likely with fewer resources…
On September 16th SeaChange hosted our Fourth Annual “Great Debate” on the question: “Should DAFs be Reined in?” The discussion between Ray Madoff and Daniel Hemel was very engaging and even included some fireworks between our two wonderful debaters. Here is a link to a video of the…
The trustees of private colleges are being challenged as never before to be mission-driven, clear about institutional priorities, tough-minded in assessing their risks and available options, and open-minded to various forms of restructuring including mergers, joint ventures, teach-out partnerships, and even dissolutions. Unfortunately, few private colleges have experience…
We are proud to announce the launch of the Sustained Collaboration Network (SCN), a national network of grantmaking initiatives that support nonprofit mergers, joint ventures, programmatic and administrative partnerships, etc. In the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) article, “Building Capacity for Sustained Collaboration,” readers will find stories from communities…
Nonprofits deemed “large” by the government have been completely shut out of the two most important sources of COVID-19-related financial support: the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and the Federal Reserve’s Main Street Lending Program (“MSLP”). However, unless they receive immediate assistance, some will not make it through…