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…
In this interview with Denver Frederick, the host of the Business of Giving, John MacIntosh discusses how to know whether your nonprofit is a Hibernator, Responder or Hybrid; why large nonprofits may be less financially resilient; and when an organization should begin to think about a merger or…
In Too Big To Fail we show that large human service nonprofits are critical partners to state and local government in maintaining the social safety net. They are on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. And they are at the breaking point. Without immediate assistance, some may…