Nonprofit Lifecycles Institute is a community of nonprofit leaders, consultants, and funders who cultivate an ecosystem of healthy, dynamic, and collaborative nonprofit organizations, funders, and consultants. Founded in 2015 by Susan Kenny Stevens Ph.D., the Institute focuses on the teachings documented in Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity.
Both the book and Institute are built on the framework of Nonprofit Lifecycles and the seven stages of organizational development including: Idea, Start-up, Growth, Maturity, Decline, Turnaround and Terminal.
We cultivate an ecosystem of healthy, dynamic, and collaborative nonprofit organizations, funders, and consultants. We do this through the Lifecycles model: a paradigm-shifting, stage-based approach that provides the guidance and structure for nonprofits to realize their missions with clarity and sustainability.