Nonprofit impact (and needs) are significant right now and most are working diligently to convey that to their supporters. But how to do this effectively while being sensitive to the times is the crucial question. In this second piece of a two-part post, we share what kind of language is working in nonprofit appeals. If…
We often hear how unprecedented the need for the nonprofit community is, but it is clear that this sentiment rings particularly true as nonprofits weather another month of increased service needs, decrease and redirection of grant funding, and an overall economic downturn that is leaving fewer resources – volunteer, general operating funders, staff, and others…
Get your financial house in order. Year to date budgets need to be up to date, program and operating expenses need to be fully captured, and cash flow needs to be accurately described. Set aside the time for your staff to prepare. Create a dashboard or operational snapshot. After all of your accounts are reconciled,…
For many years, funders have been calling for nonprofits to merge. There is simply a lot of redundancy in nonprofit operations, ego in the creation and continued existence of some nonprofits, and the possibility to streamline back office operations for more efficient use of the donor dollar. Right now, there is increased competition for funder…
After speaking with our clients and colleagues in the field, we wanted to share some of the tactics nonprofits are adapting their fall and end of year development operations. For most nonprofits, a significant portion, as high as three quarters, of the fundraising dollars is received during the last quarter of the year. Many nonprofits…
The social sector is known to have a halo of ‘good’ around it – making the idea that a nonprofit may be perpetuating white supremacy or racism itself seemingly difficult to believe at first glance to some. But many nonprofits were created and operate within the confines of white supremacist society and thus their continued…
We would like to think corporate America, particularly beloved companies, understand us as their customer/consumer and what and how we identify. When companies fall short of that expectation, particularly around social issues, reactions range from passive disappointment to much stronger calls to boycott affiliations in today’s modern cancel culture. Many also hold businesses to a…
It is critical that all of us be strongly and vocally anti-racist, and work to challenge the subtle, systemic, and systematic ways that discrimination exists throughout our society. The following are ways you can support equality, push for equity, and bring about justice.
We continue to stretch ourselves to learn more about what we don’t know, to learn more about who we’re missing from the table, and to learn more about how the systems we work with operate, but also and most importantly, how we might be unknowingly or unconsciously perpetuate the embedded racism within them.
Since the explosion of rightful outrage at the ongoing police brutality and indifference to the lives of black bodies by the criminal justice system, I have spent more time reflecting on what it means to be a white woman and how I contribute to white supremacy.