April 7, 2025

We’re excited to welcome Rumbi Mufuka, PhD and Robin Neidorf to Tangelo Tree Consulting!

March 28, 2025

Hello Tangelo Tree Community,

This week we wanted to share our thoughts on reconsidering your organization’s income mix in 2025. As part of our 2025 Financial Strategy series, we hope you find some useful insight into how we are seeing financial strategy in today’s uncertain environment.

Four questions to shape your organization’s financial strategy

Read more below:

March 13, 2025

Hello Tangelo Tree Community,

Last week, we sent an email for the Partnerships as Strategy in 2025 event with NPQ and Tangelo Tree. There has since been an update to the sign up link. The new link can be found here and below.

Keep reading to see the two new events Tangelo Tree will be a part of in the upcoming months!

March 4, 2025

Hello Tangelo Tree Community,

Last week, our Founder, Michael Anderson wrote a piece on LinkedIn, after speaking with members from our community, about the disconnect between funders and nonprofits. We heard from multiple folks representing funders that they believe that nonprofits are in a “wait and see” mode; while at the same time, we’re hearing from nonprofits that they are already trying to resolve issues that have risen from the new administration. As we work to piece together what we are hearing in the work that Tangelo Tree does, we hope this may help draw some attention to an issue that we are noticing.

February 20, 202

Hello Tangelo Tree Community,

If your organization isn’t bringing financial analysis into your strategy conversations, you may be missing out on a big opportunity—and you wouldn’t be alone. Understanding various financial scenarios and making data-informed decisions is vital at times of great uncertainty. Even the most seasoned nonprofit leaders and their boards have trouble making the connection between strategy and finance, especially given the current uncertainties. The Tangelo Tree team can help with that. here

February 4, 2025

To our community,

“Plans are great…until the federal government decides your organization shouldn’t exist.”This is a real quote from a nonprofit executive director in a board meeting last week, reminiscent of Mike Tyson’s famous line, “Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth.”

Every tax-exempt organization should be talking about risks related to the new federal administration; many such risks are existential in nature…

January 10, 2025

Hello Tangelo Tree Community,

We hope you all had a restful and relaxing holiday season and are looking forward to starting 2025 with a renewed sense of resilience!

As you’ve read in our last two newsletters, Tangelo Tree Consulting has been thinking hard about how to meet this moment of uncertainty…

January 2, 2025

Tangelo Tree Consulting is hiring a Senior Consultant.

We're looking ahead to 2025, eager to play a valuable role for the nonprofit sector and our clients. Given what we're anticipating on the horizon, we're especially interested in candidates with nonprofit financial strategy and leadership experience or nonprofit merger experience…

December 20, 2024

Seasons Greetings,

As we move into the holiday season, we hope you are finding peace and joy. Before we shut down for the year, there has been something on our minds here at Tangelo Tree that we’d like to talk about: Strategic Partnerships…

December 16, 2024

Here We Are, December 2024

We’ve been sitting with the anger and grief of knowing how painful the coming years will be for our communities – our friends, family, neighbors, clients, and for nonprofits across the country. At Tangelo Tree Consulting, we’re also resolved: our only choice is to meet this challenging moment with clarity, focus, and determination...

October 16, 2024

We are excited to welcome Adelaide Rohrssen and Noah Brooks to our Core Team at Tangelo Tree…

October 1, 2024

We’re excited to announce our new name, Tangelo Tree Consulting. We were never truly named, and I’ve been eager to change the name since our second team member joined the practice in 2022…

July 2, 2024

NeighborWorks Home Partners (NWHP) helps people buy, fix, and keep their homes. Michael Anderson Consulting (MAC) helps nonprofits pursue big ideas for social change. Together, we worked on developing a strategy for NWHP’s next stage of organizational growth and mission impact. ..

June 5, 2024

At MAC, we think of strategy and planning as different but complementary activities. Our two-tiered strategy development approach helps organizations bring clarity to their organizational identity and strategic priorities…

May 15, 2024

We’re excited to share the third issue of our mini adventure series about our approach to Partnership Development. Today, we’ll describe the third pillar, which for us means focusing as much on people as on the process…

May 7, 2024

The team at Michael Anderson Consulting would like to congratulate The Food Group and Hunger Solutions Minnesota on their recent partnership. These two powerhouses for food access and systems change officially joined forces in March 2024. Our team was delighted to facilitate this partnership development process…

April 24, 2024

To plot the journey ahead, we work with the Joint Committee to confirm and prioritize important decision points that serve as milestones, or markers of progress. These typically align with the development of the following three project deliverables…

April 17, 2024

Getting to a partnership might seem like a simple journey: assess and explore the opportunities, negotiate an agreement, and set the new partnership in motion. But the terrain is unpredictable, and it’s important to have an experienced guide to help set a course…

March 6, 2024

We’re excited to share more about our approach to Financial Strategy and we thought the best way to demonstrate our approach would be to share a case study that examines our project with South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development (SCACED.)