Start with the real question.
Listen for what is happening. Look beneath the first explanation. Make the question clear enough to work on together.
About Nonprofit Place
A place to think. A way to move forward.
Nonprofit Place exists to help nonprofit leaders, boards, and teams find clarity, strengthen their organizations, and connect their mission to practical action.
Why a place?
Important work needs room for honest conversation.
There are moments when a leader needs to step back, a team needs to name what is happening, or a board needs to ask a better question before choosing a direction.
Nonprofit Place makes room for those moments. The work combines strategic counsel, facilitated planning, and practical guidance so a useful conversation can become a decision people understand and a next step they can carry.
The ambition is to build a lasting place for counsel, learning, resources, and shared experience, with room to serve beyond any one person.
The way we approach the work
Thoughtful by design.
Practical in the work.
Make room for people.
Pay attention to who is affected, whose perspective is missing, and what the organization can realistically carry.
Leave a useful next step.
Connect insight to action. Name the decision, the responsibility, and the point at which to return to the conversation.
The person behind the work
David Runnels
Shaping Nonprofit Place
Founder, Stories & Systems
David’s work connects people, decisions, and systems. His experience includes a decade building organizational systems, teams, and processes, followed by founding Stories & Systems.
Through Nonprofit Place, that practical perspective serves conversations about direction, organizational strength, and the work nonprofit leaders are carrying.
A distinct place. Connected work.
The right support for the need.
Nonprofit Place focuses on organizational clarity and practical guidance. Related work connects the next step to systems, marketing foundations, ownership, or visibility when that is what the situation needs.
You don’t have to arrive with all the answers.
Bring the question your organization is carrying. We’ll start there.