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We help people run nonprofits with joy, confidence, and results so the people served by them live their best lives. We work with partners across the social sector to advance their missions and causes. We do this through training, instructional design, learning strategy, and nonprofit/social sector leadership.
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About Nancy Bacon
Nancy Bacon is a teacher, instructional designer, and learning strategist known for creating learning experiences that move people to action.
A former middle school teacher who has served nonprofits in many roles, Nancy has made a career of creating and leading learning programs. She has trained thousands of people in-person and online, speaks on learning and leadership, and writes books and blogs on topics at the intersection of learning and nonprofits. More about Nancy
Nancy also co-hosts the Nonprofit Radio Show with Sarah Brooks. The Nonprofit Radio Show offers bite-size, practical information to help nonprofits thrive. Based in Washington State, the Radio Show celebrates the small nonprofits that serve our diverse communities.
“Talking with you helped me garner perspective and the knowledge I needed to discuss these issues with confidence with my board. You enjoy helping others, and it really shows.”
Nancy has been leading educational programs since 1997.
Nancy advises her range of clients on the business of running learning programs to achieve the reach, revenue, and impact they need to thrive. She builds learning strategies to help clients communicate with funders. She has served as the leading fund development officer for several nonprofits and has received (and now manages) several state contract on behalf of clients.
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Make Advocacy Actionable
Free webinar on this topic on May 9th. A recent email: Did you know that less than half the percentage of nonprofits advocate or lobby today than were doing so 20 years ago? That’s an alarming finding in [our] recent research report. When nonprofits sit on the sidelines of policy debates, we leave our power on the table and forfeit opportunities to…
Wonderfully irrational people
You may have read about the passing of Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist and Nobel Prize winning economist. His work—and the larger field expanding what we know about behavior change— is deeply relevant to how we design and deliver learning programs in the social sector space. Our goal is to influence how people do things over…
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