Adapting and thriving : Innovative practices by small and medium nonprofits emerging from the economic downturn

In consulting with these organizations, we identified a series of innovative practices that have contributed to their success and a few suggestions for governments and other funders to help more organizations adopt some of these practices. [...] We believe these innovative practices and recommendations will be useful to nonprofits that are navigating their own unique challenges, and to those that support the sector. [...] The Public Policy Forum thanks our partners The Wellesley Institute, SiG@MaRS and the Ontario Arts Council for their support for this project and for the sound advice that they provided. [...] I especially want to thank my team for their hard work and dedication, including Lee Allison Howe for conceiving of and developing this project and Crista Renner, Ryan Conway, and Aaron Good for supporting the research and drafting the report. [...] While subject area throughout the sector, support the sharing of best expertise and relationships are important, they believe practices, and help to proliferate successful new funding that these management and leadership skills are critical to models by improving the ability of nonprofits to identify an organization’s success.