How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit Job
Preventing burnout is important, so! Let’s learn to delegate! Here are some tips from my 5 star rated book, Get the Job! Your Fundraising Career Empowerment Guide. Answer the What, Who, When and How, and you will be halfway to having the help you need. 1: WHAT can you delegate? 2: WHOM can you […]
This is why we have to Name It! PODCAST: Masculinities and Femininities at Work
Talk nerdy to me! Aw yeah! let’s talk about what lies beneath… our nonprofit worlds! It’s not pretty down there. Why am I talking about oppression and naming it? Why not just keep talking about fundraising all the time? Because, man! Because: We say we want to make a better world, but we don’t look […]
You can’t pay people more.
Perhaps you’ve heard Bernie Sanders going around talking about income inequality. And I think this discussion should start in the nonprofit sector. Why? Because we are the lowest paid sector. Nonprofit pay equity is… to put it mildly, in the toilet. Proof below! I went to a nonprofit association a couple years ago […]
How to break into the fundraising field
How can you break into the field? It’s a dilemma. People often come to me with this question, as I work with them on their fundraising careers. In this segment we talk about how I got started, how YOU can get started, ways to start gaining experience before you ever get a job, and also […]
5 open ended questions to get you closer to a gift
What is this groovy book? It’s called Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. My friend Aaron Levine (of podcast fame) recommended this book recently and I’m SO glad he did. I’ve been recommending it to anyone I know who needs to be persuasive, whether a fundraiser, someone in sales, or even my own mother. […]
NAMEIT! Podcast: Why women have a harder time getting nonprofit leadership roles
In this interview with Aaron Levine, who has a master’s in sociology from Portland State University, we discuss what hegemonic masculinity is- and how it manifests in our nonprofits. Listen here! Show 1: Introduction, Gender Structure and the Workplace Start out with: Here’s what we know for sure. Studies show women make less. But […]