What’s actually working in the nonprofit sector — every Wednesday
Running a nonprofit means too much time with bad news, noise, and ideas that are either too vague or too hard to use. This is the opposite of that.
Why This Newsletter Exists
NGN is a weekly email for nonprofit leaders who want to see something that worked — and enough detail about why it worked to try it themselves.
No fluff. No doom spiral. No giant reading assignment.
What You Get in Every Issue
- What’s Most Good — three nonprofits that did something that worked, with enough detail to copy
- Quick Hits — deadlines, discounts, and filings worth ten minutes of your week
- AI Insights — prompts written for nonprofit work, ready to paste
- Board Corner — one exercise you can run at your next board meeting
- From Where I Sit — a short note from Ted
Who This Is For
NGN is for nonprofit leaders and staff who want:
- better ideas without more inbox clutter
- examples worth adapting, not just admiring
- useful perspective on what is actually working in the sector
Free. Weekly. Unsubscribe any time.
What a Typical NGN Email Looks Like
Every issue is built to be skimmed in five minutes and useful in ten.
You can expect:
- three nonprofit examples under What’s Most Good, each with the part worth stealing named outright
- three quick hits with an action, a rough dollar figure, and how long it takes
- three AI prompts you can paste and run
- a board exercise with timings
- a short note from Ted
Sources are linked. Where a number comes from an organization’s own press release, the issue says so.
About Ted Bilich
NGN is written by Ted Bilich, founder of Risk Alternatives and longtime advisor to nonprofits on resilience, strategy, governance, ethics, and operational strength.
Ted built NGN for nonprofit leaders who want more than commentary. The aim is to help you notice what is working, understand why it works, and think more clearly about how it could apply to your own organization.
What NGN Readers Say
“It’s where you go to think clearly about what AI is doing to our work before the rest of the conversation catches up.”
— Merrick Hoben, Washington DC Office Director, Consensus Building Institute
“NGN has helped me put our nonprofit in a broader context. It also offers helpful tools for planning, strategy and collaboration.”
— Ginny Hughes, Rooted
“Just sign up and listen to Ted, he knows what he’s talking about! And since my peers think I know what I’m talking about, that will go a long way!”
— Kim O’Brien, former Executive Director, Nonprofit Leadership Initiative
FAQ
Is NGN really free?
Yes — the whole issue, every week. There is no paid tier and nothing to upgrade to.
How often will I get it?
Every Wednesday.
What if I don’t want it anymore?
Every issue has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. One click, no questions.
What will you do with my email address?
Send you NGN. That’s it. No selling it, no renting it, no handing it to anyone else.
If you want weekly nonprofit good news that is brief, relevant, and actually useful, start here.
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