Our founder has helped non-profit organizations for more than 20 years with revising mission statements (who you are), vision planning (where you want to go), and strategic planning (how to get there). We train staff and boards, and help create programs, build partnerships, market & publicize your organization and programs, and recruit and train board members. We apply proven practices in non-profit management to help struggling organizations stave off insolvency and help well established non-profits strengthen their organizations.

If you are volunteering or working with a non-profit organization, please share this site with your organization. We will update teaching videos and resources to help non-profits become more successful. If you are not already volunteering or working with a non-profit, what are you waiting for? To improve your community; to care for ‘the least of these’ as the Bible refers to those who are hungry, sick, and in need of clothing and shelter; and to protect the environment, wildlife, and so much more, you really should find a cause, volunteer your time, join a board, and get involved.

We’ll help you become more successful at helping others, too.

Founder’s Bio

People often ask me, “When did you first begin working with non-profit organizations?” The answer is when I was five years old. My sister is developmentally disabled, and I began as a volunteer at her school when I was five, helping to push wheelchairs to lunch, playing with kids, and doing whatever I could to help my sister’s teachers. At the age of ten I started riding my bike to her school during the summer to volunteer. Helping others has always been rewarding, and I continued as a volunteer for years, into college. Even after college I volunteered for community organizations while holding a job as an IT professional for an international law firm. In 2000 I started as a volunteer for my church’s outreach ministries and eventually became a fulltime staff member as their Director of Development. After 9-11, when fundraising became for difficult, I continued having success. Friends in the non-profit community asked me what I was doing and how I was doing it. In 2003, after giving advice to several non-profit organizations, I started a consulting business to help non-profit organizations that did not have the budget to hire their own Director of Development.

 

 

 

Our mission is to provide resources to non-profit organizations to empower and equip them for sustainable growth.

The National Non-Profit Resource Center was founded by Stephen A. Forbus, who after running a successful for-profit consulting agency for non-profit management saw a need for struggling non-profits to build their capacity before they could realistically engage in successful fundraising techniques. The NNPRC was formed to help non-profit organizations with consulting services and management expertise, but to also help non-profit organizations who are stuck in a Catch-22 — those that don’t have the capacity to raise money and don’t have the money to build capacity.

NNPRC provides services in strategic planning, marketing, grant research and writing, event planning, mission and vision planning, board development, program development, partnership creation, volunteer leadership development, and all of the best practices in non-profit management that build organizational capacity. When a non-profit has strong organizational capacity, it is prepared to begin a sustainable donor development plan.

We enjoy helping the community grow by helping non-profit organizations succeed. Vicariously, we help feed the homeless, care for the elderly, prevent school violence, educate immigrants and refugees, care for the mentally ill, shelter battered women, provide after school care, provide quality education to youth, protect the environment, rescue animals, advance the arts, redevelop communities, find cures for diseases, and so much more. Stephen Forbus, founder of NNPRC, saw a need among small and mid-sized non-profits who needed the help of a professional development director, but could not afford to hire an experienced development officer full time. NNPRC is the out-source development department that non-profits need to build capacity.

At NNPRC, we want non-profit organizations to succeed in meeting the needs of the community, training volunteers in effective fundraising principles, and marketing themselves to their clients and their donors. And when non-profits do not have the foundation necessary to be successful, we help build their organizational capacity. We are enriching the community through the organizations we serve.

The old adage, “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime” applies to what we do. Clients do not become dependent on our services. Rather, they are empowered and equipped to follow a cohesive strategic plan to further develop their own organizations long after we have worked with them.

Our faith and commitment is based on a simple idea: To treat others as we would want to be treated. Our purpose can best be summarized by the following story. “Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world, for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me. Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.” Matthew 25:34-40

National Non-Profit Resource Center helps struggling non-profit organizations that do not have the capacity to raise money and do not have the money to build capacity. To support these non-profits, we have taken on clients that have very little to invest in their organizational development needs. We have some angel investors to have made that possible:  

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