project: sunlight on sunsets

Sunlight on Sunsets is a one-year discovery project illuminating why nonprofit closures are radioactive and identifying opportunities to shift beliefs and behavior.

Through structured interviews, 50+ leaders in and around nonprofits and philanthropy are weighing in on questions we really need to poke at. Things like, are nonprofits ever supposed to close? What would happen if good closures were more normative?

The goal is to surface the assumptions and structures that keep closure equated with failure and to identify how this phase of the nonprofit lifecycle can be more intentional, better resourced, and appropriately accountable, given the inequities that are magnified when nonprofits close suddenly. 

In the process, people are spending an hour pushing their thinking and helping to create a new narrative that moves us all forward.

If you’re interested in being part of this project, please be in touch.