Next Stage is Hiring a Content & Community Manager

Next Stage is Hiring a Content & Community Manager

As Next Stage approaches our tenth anniversary, we have been excited to innovate and explore the ways social impact is changing. The challenges and systems that are communities are working to solve are more complex – and more intersectional – than ever. We...
Backstage with Next Stage: Unpacking Benefits Cliffs

Backstage with Next Stage: Unpacking Benefits Cliffs

When the Next Stage team hosted Justin Taylor from Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont a few weeks ago, we were shocked to learn more about the ‘benefits cliff’ in North Carolina and other states. The term refers to the sudden loss of benefits...
Eastland Replanned: Community Voice is Vital

Eastland Replanned: Community Voice is Vital

Written by: Brooke Lackey In my first week as Next Stage’s Community Voice Fellow, I was given my main task of the summer: to explore the Albemarle corridor, one of six Corridors of Opportunity in Charlotte. I was to get knee-deep in the demographics, history and...
Biggest Marketing Challenges We’re Hearing

Biggest Marketing Challenges We’re Hearing

Written by: Janet Ervin Next Stages does a lot of strategic planning. This means we always have a front-row seat to the current trends that are affecting nonprofit and impact organizations in our community. While marketing has always been a piece of the puzzle, the...
There’s no “I” in Self-Awareness

There’s no “I” in Self-Awareness

Written By: Haley Rafferty Who are you? What is your communication style? Where are you biased? Answering these questions, and others like them, can illuminate your level of self-awareness. For example, I know that I have an expressive face. This can be a good thing...
How We’re Swiping on these Marketing Trends!

How We’re Swiping on these Marketing Trends!

Calling all digital content creators, social media managers and leaders who moonlight in these roles for their organizations – this episode of “Backstage with Next Stage” is for you. Candice and Susan from our marketing team are taking a look at what’s trending...