<![CDATA[Nonprofit AF]]> Follow Nonprofit AF, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/nonprofit-af Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:15:12 +0200 <![CDATA[Funding and the flawed notion of nonprofit "readiness”]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6NGwt4DB6yUzhhSCv31NykC Hi everyone, you may have heard about MacKenzie Scott’s new funding initiative, Yield Giving, which will be giving out 250...]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 07:35:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6NGwt4DB6yUzhhSCv31NykC <![CDATA[Why do so many nice people become assholes when they join a board?]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6P6iPwQUmkRI8lTP0vptTFR Hi everyone, if you get this in time, Edgar Villanueva and I are having one of our “Decolonizing AF” conversations...]]> Tue, 23 May 2023 08:35:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6P6iPwQUmkRI8lTP0vptTFR <![CDATA[Join the movement to end Crappy Funding Practices!]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6M1YYw2YWpaVwaB2UxGNFpJ Hi everyone, before we get started, next week, May 23rd, at 10:30am Pacific Time, Edgar Villanueva (my brother from another...]]> Tue, 16 May 2023 07:16:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6M1YYw2YWpaVwaB2UxGNFpJ <![CDATA[14 ways to make fundraising events more community-centric]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6MX1u_4Os9PubDXWBZfdr71 Hey everyone, before we begin, here’s a cute and short video about foundations and their investments, which is a topic...]]> Tue, 09 May 2023 08:54:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6MX1u_4Os9PubDXWBZfdr71 <![CDATA[We need to talk about suicide among nonprofit professionals and social justice activists]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6PPeKSEpJXNrwSngkwrdsok Hi everyone, this post will be more personal and serious than usual. Content warning: I will be talking about suicide,...]]> Tue, 02 May 2023 09:46:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6PPeKSEpJXNrwSngkwrdsok <![CDATA[Risk-Averse Philanthropy: How General Counsels are Stifling Progress]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6PSUsXTGaib8wVLTsI7B9NX Hi everyone. Before we get started with today’s post, next week, to kick off AANHPI heritage month, I’ll be on...]]> Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:38:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6PSUsXTGaib8wVLTsI7B9NX <![CDATA[Philanthropy’s equivalent of "All Lives Matter”]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6NF136aAfoF0O4sICfMfkNm Hi everyone, I’ve been busy filing taxes, so apologies for the lateness and ineloquence of this post (Also, I’m not...]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:17:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6NF136aAfoF0O4sICfMfkNm <![CDATA[The 50-Minute-Meeting Revolution and the End of Back-to-Back Meetings!]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6MINDKSLI1dTQSngkwrdsok Hi everyone. Confession: I don’t hate most meetings. I mean, if you think about it, in our sector meetings often...]]> Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:15:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6MINDKSLI1dTQSngkwrdsok <![CDATA[No, social enterprise and earned revenues will not solve nonprofits’ funding problems]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6Ow8x__eZ_8fkGb1Jh49AJn Hi everyone, for those who missed the Unicorns Unite’s 5-year virtual reunion event on Valentine’s Day, the other co-authors and...]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:28:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6Ow8x__eZ_8fkGb1Jh49AJn <![CDATA[10 Signs You Might Have Fundraiser Stockholm Syndrome]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6NlWtDGv1RvwLkdRKkm2PJP Some of you may remember #DAFHobbyGate, where many, many fundraising colleagues got very upset because on an earlier webinar I...]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 08:17:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6NlWtDGv1RvwLkdRKkm2PJP <![CDATA[The Ethics and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence in the Nonprofit Sector]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6OpMF8-Seby1Qp41t9tiERU Hi everyone, and happy Spring if you are in the Northern Hemisphere. Last week, I moderated a conversation on Artificial...]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:59:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6OpMF8-Seby1Qp41t9tiERU <![CDATA[We need to talk about the relentless machine that is higher-education fundraising]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6Mkf00RghZLL-GrEXdXG_66 Every month or so, I get an appeal letter from my alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis (Go Bears!),...]]> Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:40:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6Mkf00RghZLL-GrEXdXG_66 <![CDATA[Greek Myths if They Were Set in the Nonprofit Sector, Part 2]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6MsNebGPzkVILb9ICM-PHur Hi everyone, a couple of announcements. Starting next week, Nonprofit AF posts will be published on TUESDAYS. I know, many...]]> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:50:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6MsNebGPzkVILb9ICM-PHur <![CDATA["Doing the right thing” over "doing things right,” a critical principle for advancing equity and justice]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6OOFCT-VQEauEGb1Jh49AJn Hi everyone. If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I try to call out crappy or nonsensical things...]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2023 08:36:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6OOFCT-VQEauEGb1Jh49AJn <![CDATA[10 condescending funding practices funders need to stop doing]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6PT5-FqgByjCFhGNgNo2_0q Hi everyone, before we get started, I have exciting news: It took over a year and tons of dark chocolate,...]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:40:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6PT5-FqgByjCFhGNgNo2_0q <![CDATA[Nonprofit pickup lines you can use this Valentine’s Day (and year-round)]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6PvgmtxBdLLo96jHbRcHw3s Hi everyone, a couple of things before we get started. On March 14th, 9:30am Pacific Time, I’ll be moderating a...]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:00:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6PvgmtxBdLLo96jHbRcHw3s <![CDATA[20 new rules regarding handwritten thank-you notes we must all adopt immediately]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6P_70-apjjLEbkdRKkm2PJP Hi everyone, before we get started, it’s Black History Month, so let’s all remind ourselves that only about 2% of...]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2023 10:10:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6P_70-apjjLEbkdRKkm2PJP <![CDATA[Collective impact and what progressives can learn from conservatives]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6Pa06noDCO1VVLv-B9hV9S2 Hi everyone, just a preemptive warning that this post is serious, political, disjointed, and will likely offend some people. Like...]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:50:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6Pa06noDCO1VVLv-B9hV9S2 <![CDATA[Foundations, please get over the urban myth of "tipping”]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6OTTW5-EgKe0sfGo0LrnZNO Hi everyone, before we get started, it’s been five years since Unicorns Unite: How Nonprofits and Foundations Can Build EPIC...]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:24:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6OTTW5-EgKe0sfGo0LrnZNO <![CDATA[7 often-ignored MLK quotes to ground our work of fighting for equity and justice]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6M8uOKst-fp5m0dX84dnP8Y Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Those of us who are in nonprofit, philanthropy, and other fields focused on...]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:10:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/k5mF9ad3d6M8uOKst-fp5m0dX84dnP8Y