Nonprofit AF

Hi everyone, if you’re available on Wednesday October 21st at 10am Pacific Time, please join me and fellow rabble-rouser Aparna Rae for an informal conversation where we bust some of the myths about nonprofit and philanthropy. It’ll be fun, since we’ll probably be trash-talking billionaires (who all suck and should be taxed out of existence!). It’s free.

Whenever I point out the challenges with nonprofits getting the funding they need to succeed, invariably someone will bring up the question of whether there are “too many nonprofits” and if much of our problems would be solved if many of them merged or went out of business. Fewer nonprofits competing for resources, and the ones that remain would get more funding. That makes s...

Original title: We need to get off the gaslighting, victim-blaming hamster wheel of bullshit (GVBHWBS)

A few weeks ago, I was listening to a panel of funders give advice for nonprofits on the best way to approach their foundation, since funding has been harder to obtain. At another workshop at the same conference, a presenter gave tips on how to personalize communicatio...

During the first year of Covid, I was at home with my kids, who were aged 7 and 4 at the time. The days were long, and they constantly needed to be entertained. At one point, they discovered the vacuum and were fascinated by it. So when they weren’t looking I would intentionally drop cracker crumbs and assorted other debris on the floor. “Oh noOOooo, kids! Looks l...

Disclaimer: This post is not written with any intentional assistance from AI, so expect typos, run-on sentences, unclear points, confusing metaphors, and, you know, some other things I can’t think of right now.

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