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Boston Business Journal, Jeffrey L. Bradach, Nonprofit Advisor, March 21, 2008
Jeff Bradach is working on behalf of hundreds of nonprofits in and around Boston -- and nationwide for that matter -- to help them realize their potential in a world where they're often struggling to survive.
Business Week, Switching from For-Profit to Nonprofit, January 10, 2008
A leadership deficit is prompting nonprofits to look outside their ranks for managers, says Bridgespan Group Chairman Thomas Tierney.
Financial Times, Benefits of an Expert Parent, December 10, 2007
In the commercial world, the past 25 years have seen a dramatic growth in the availability of professional services. Yet in the philanthropic and non-profit sectors, very little of these business-to-businesses support services exist. It was for this reason that in 1999 the Bridgespan Group was founded.
Bridgespan Group Welcomes Thomas J. Friel, October 24, 2007
Former Heidrick & Struggles Chairman/CEO will advise Bridgestar on expanding reach of its talent-matching services.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Way To Grow, September 6, 2007
Charities use business practices to rapidly expand their programs.
CFO.com, Making Less Money, and Loving It, August 16, 2007
Do you have what it takes to become a non-profit CFO? If you're tough enough, there's good news: The non-profit job market is expanding—rapidly.
Christian Science Monitor, Wanted: Nonprofit Leaders, August 13, 2007
Charities seek to deliver results – and fill top jobs.
Money, Farewell to Dog-Eat-Dog, August 1, 2007
Trading in a corporate career for nonprofit work? You gotta be all business about the transition.
Philanthropy Journal, Tom Tierney - Effective Nonprofit Leadership Most Critical, June 4, 2007
Many factors can affect an organization's ability to grow successfully, but leadership is the most critical.
The Westchester County Business Journal, Leadership Gap Affects Growing Nonprofit Sector, May 21, 2007
Nonprofit organizations may be riding a wave of national success, but they are facing a severe imbalance in the supply (low) and demand (high) of "leadership talent."
Barron's, A Legacy of Venture Giving, May 7, 2007
The Tiger Foundation was established in 1989 by Tiger's founder, hedge-fund pioneer Julian Robertson, as a way to spur his young investment team to think more actively about
philanthropy at a formative stage -- and wage war on poverty in New York, Tiger's home base.
The Bridgespan Group Receives American Express Grant to Support Bridgestar Initiative, May 3, 2007
Three-year grant to be used to expand services in New York City.
SF Weekly, The Fix Isn't In, August 2, 2006
Gavin Newsom has a plan to clean up the Bayview in five years. If only his programs were working as well as his PR machine.
Philanthropy, Tom Tierney - Addressing the Leadership Crisis in the Nonprofit Sector, July 1, 2006
In anticipation of his address at the Philanthropy Roundtable 2006 annual meeting, PHILANTHROPY interviewed Tom Tierney on the leadership challenges facing the nonprofit sector, and specifically on the projected leadership deficit.
Youth Today, Nonprofit Consulting Goes Upscale, May 2006
Agencies love Bridgespan’s business approach. Does it improve youth work?
Chronicle of Philanthropy, 640,000 New Senior Managers Will Be Needed to Run Nonprofit Groups in Next Decade, April 6, 2006
Nonprofit organizations will need to hire an additional 640,000 senior managers in the next decade, according to a new study by the Bridgespan Group, a Boston nonprofit organization that provides strategic-planning advice to charities.
Chronicle of Philanthropy, A Singular Focus on Kids, February 7, 2006
Betting all its grant money on a single effort -- strengthening youth-development groups -- the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation embarked on a radical makeover that may be starting to yield results.
Chronicle of Philanthropy, New Efforts Under Way to Recruit the Next Generation of Charity Leaders, January 12, 2006
A summary of initiatives focused on increasing the pool of qualified candidates for nonprofit leadership roles -- including Bridgestar.
Financial Times, Charities Profit from Business Acumen, May 24, 2005
A new generation of philanthropists place a priority on lending their skills - along with their deep pockets - to the organizations they support. For the most part, nonprofits and other beneficiaries have embraced this trend toward more active giving, and many have benefited from successful entrepreneurs taking an active interest in the day to day business of grantees. But some experts caution that applying the lessons learned from a successful life in business are a necessary but not a sufficient step toward tackling some of society's most intractable problems. "The non-profit sector is entering a new era with increased pressure on performance," says Jeffrey Bradach, Bridgespan managing partner and co-founder ... "Non-profits are becoming increasingly like the for-profit sector 30 years ago, with its focus on management ... some of the lessons travel and some of them don't".
Wharton Alumni Magazine, David Simms: Building Bridges to the Nonprofit World, Fall 2004
Simms, a former Bain consultant who has worked in both for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations, joined the Bridgespan Group as managing partner of Bridgestar – an initiative designed to attract and develop management talent, “and add passion for a cause to it to create stronger non-profits."
The New York Times Magazine, The Harlem Project, June 20, 2004
In 1990, when Geoffrey Canada became president of the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, he set out trying to improve the world, one poor child at a time. His main goal at the time was to keep the children in his programs alive. But after a few years, unable to meet the demand for Rheedlen’s services, his ideas about poverty began to change. If all he was doing was picking some kids to save and letting the rest fail, what was the point?
Philanthropy, Helping Leaders Find Their Way, March-April 2004
The strategic consulting firm Bain & Company was relatively small when Tom Tierney joined the staff in 1980. As Bain grew in influence, so did Tierney, rising to the post of CEO in 1992. During this long, intense encounter with business, Tierney was also serving in the nonprofit world as a volunteer, board member, and pro bono consultant. In the 1990s, realizing the hit-and-miss nature of pro bono consulting, he began to wonder if there were a way to provide better assistance to the nonprofit world. After several years of talking and planning in collaboration with Jeffrey Bradach, Paul Carttar, and others, he was ready to launch the Bridgespan Group in 2000.
Business Week Magazine, The New Face of Philanthropy, December 2, 2002
"Compared to the for-profit sector, the nonprofit world is back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Japan was beating up American businesses," says Jeffrey L. Bradach, managing partner at Bridgespan Group Advisors Inc., a consultant to nonprofits and philanthropists. "It's only beginning to understand that if you want good outcomes, you have to invest in building strong organizations."
Inc Magazine, Shaking the Foundations, May 2, 2002, A Helpful Heart, a Business Brain
As more-engaged donors transform philanthropy into a hands-on affair, nonprofits are getting an infusion of management experience along with the cash. The new language of giving, consequently, sounds a lot like the old language of business.
Consulting Magazine, Career, Interrupted, August 8, 2000
Hot projects and bigger paychecks are no guarantee of professional happiness. Here's a look at some of those who, once unhappy in their line of work, piloted across the profession's perilous chasms to discover greater career satisfaction. At Bain & Co, a one-time fledgling externship program is being put into high gear.
The San Francisco Chronicle, Grads have wealth of experience, ambitions, June 17, 2001
Stanford University's MBA graduates face an uncertain economy as they enter the workforce. The Chronicle will follow these students during the next year, including John Newsome, who plans to be a consultant in San Francisco for the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit subsidiary of Bain & Company.
Financial Times (London), Wealth of opportunity in the non-profit arena, February 7, 2001
The Bridgespan Group, a closely linked Bain & Company consultancy spin-off, has just celebrated its first year of operations. It is struggling to cope with demand and has an eye on international expansion. "The complexity of running even small non-profit organisations is quite a bit more challenging than most businesses," says Tom Tierney, architect of The Bridgespan Group. But he wanted the best of both worlds — a non-profit consultancy with the expertise, tools and training typically only available to the corporate world, but at a price that is affordable by cash-strapped voluntary organisations.
The New York Times, Creating Waves in Nonprofit Sea, February 2, 2000
The Bridgespan Group is something new in the world of big league business consulting -- a general-purpose strategic consulting firm that will help other nonprofit organizations for a fee. (This article was also reprinted in the Boston Globe late September 2001.)
Executive Talent, Star Man, October 1, 2000
Bain & Company, is an advocate of "constellation leadership." Tierney, who is credited with building Bain into a major consultancy, discusses how this leadership concept blends a firm's strategic direction with consensus-building around core values. Tierney's legacy is a firm rich in talent.
Christian Science Monitor, Seeking Jobs with Social Value
Susan Wolf Ditkoff, who received her MBA from Harvard this spring, says she was looking for a business school that emphasized the intersection of the business world and the nonprofit sector - and the ways that each could learn from the other.
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